Add FILTER CRITERIA in Views Programmatically
Use the Devel module and dpm($view) and dpm($query) after you put like "test@email.com" into the "value" field found in your pic. See the object/array structure of the view and query from the devel output.

Then use the function hook_views_query_alter(&amp;$view, &amp;$query) in your module to target the WHERE condition filter condition and set it to the value you want.

Something like:

function MYMODULE_views_query_alter(&amp;$view, &amp;$query) {
  global $user;
  dpm($view, __FUNCTION__);
  dpm($query, __FUNCTION__);
  if ($view-&gt;name === 'your_view_machine_name') {
    // This will only work as-is if you always have something in the filter by
    // default, I guess. This hook runs always so you could just put
    // 'test@test.com' as the email to filter by in views and this
    // will always override it. I'm sure there is a cleaner way to put
    // the filter dynamically at runtime. But i think thats more complex
    // php that customizes a view.
    //
    // The index 2 below is the index of the condition for the email filter.
    // Your $query structure may be different in your dpm() of the View $query.
    $query-&gt;where[1]['conditions'][2]['field']['value'] = $user-&gt;email;
  }
}