Professors
Calls for application
At ETH Zurich, open faculty positions are announced by the Office for Faculty Affairs. Currently, the following professorships are open.
Dual Career Advice
The Dual Career Advice office (DCA) assists in exploring career opportunities for partners of ETH faculty members, who have recently been recruited from abroad and provides them a start-up aid. It is a personal contact point for the entry to the Swiss job and research market. The corresponding information platform offers detailed information for newcomers. Only spouses of ETH faculty may use the Dual Career Advice Service. Further information, as well as the contact form can be found here.
Women Professors Forum
Members of the external pageETH Women Professors Forum encourage young women to pursue a career in science or engineering. They make their expertise available within and beyond ETH Zurich, as well as support related Swiss initiatives in favor of equal opportunities among the sexes. Our members are distinguished, worldwide recognized experts in their scientific fields and experienced in leading and working in an international environment.
Each year, they receive awards and honors for their achievements and for training the next generation of scientists and engineers. Most of their students and researchers successfully pursue a professional career in the industry or the service sector. In addition, our members take over leading positions at ETH Zurich. For example Heidi Wunderli-Allenspach, one of the founding members of the forum, was Rector of ETH Zurich from 2007 – 2012. Several members of the ETH WPF Executive Board (past and present) are in charge of additional executive responsibilities, including Ursula Keller, Director of NCCR MUST, or Janet Hering, Director of EAWAG, and Sarah Springman, Rector and member of the Executive Board of ETH Zurich from January 2015.
Assistant professorship as a promotional instrument
ETH Zurich places great value on promoting youn researchers and has been using the instrument of assistant professorships for this purpose for many years. Due to experiences from past years, guidlines for the assistant professorship system at ETH were reviewed in February 2015. Assistant professorships at ETH promote young professorship and open up opportunities for further scientific qualifications in regard to an academic career for young researchers. Assistant professors are independent teaching and research units, who dispose of freedom of research and teaching as well as funds for pursuing their scientific goals. They have a reduced teaching responsibility with a focus on courses at the Master's level and are mostly free of administrative responsibilities. Assistant professors with Tenure Track are an effective instrument for ETH to win over excellent scientists early on in their career.
Counselling
Counselling on the level professor are offered by the Office for Faculty Affairs.
High Potential University Leaders Identity & Skills Training Program (H.I.T.)
The external pageH.I.T. program is designed as an exclusive, nationwide training program for excellent female professors, provides extensive networking conditions throughout Switzerland includes 20 participants. The program was launched as part of swissuniversities programme P-7 "Equal opportunity and university development 2017-2020" and is a cooperation between all ten cantonal universities and the two federal technical universities of Switzerland.