This website provides comprehensive information for postdoctoral researchers*, their supervisors, and anyone at ETH who interacts with them. Our goal is to raise awareness and ensure clarity for ETH’s standards regarding employment, rights and responsibilities while also offering an overview of the various services available to postdocs.
Postdocs at ETH Zurich benefit from a broad network of support, and navigating the various guidelines and available information can be complex. This guide serves as a central reference point, consolidating key information and supplementing it with further details relevant to the postdoc experience at ETH Zurich.
Postdocs play a vital role in ETH Zurich’s academic community. Supervisors, administrative offices, and the institution as a whole are committed – and obliged - to offer the best possible support for a successful and enriching time at ETH Zurich. At the same time, postdocs are encouraged to take an active role in shaping their career path - during their time at ETH Zurich and beyond.
*On this website we use the term postdocs to refer to all scientific collaborators with a PhD who have a fixed-term contract, regardless of their job title.
