Contact

The coordinators are the first point of contact for PhD students, serving as the interface between the Graduate School, PhD students, and supervisors. The supervisory committee is responsible for subject-matter support for candidates.

If you have any questions or would like to make an appointment for a consultation, please send an email the coordinator responsible for your PhD subject.

The office’s main role is coordinating administrative processes within the Graduate School. It draws up and reviews quality assurance measures, and provides the Graduate School Vice Dean of Studies with input as a basis for making decisions. Together with the coordinators, the office is the point of contact for PhD students, supervisors, institutes, and departments. 

The best way to contact us is via email: graduiertenschule@phil.uzh.ch .
Our office counter is open Tuesdays, 1-3 pm (SOC F 102).

The Graduate School Vice Dean of Studies heads the Graduate School. She is also the confidant and person to contact in the event of conflict at the doctoral level. 

Please submit any applications and general inquiries to the Vice Dean of Studies  via email: graduiertenschule@phil.uzh.ch .

In case of conflicts or problems with supervisors, you can contact the Graduate School Vice Dean of Studies.

Prof. Dr. Fabienne Liptay
Universität Zürich
Philosophische Fakultät
Dekanat
Rämistrasse 69
8001 Zürich
fabienne.liptay@fiwi.uzh.ch

A first point of contact may also be your PhD coordinator.

The Graduate School Executive Committee is a permanent Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. It comprises the Graduate School Vice Dean of Studies, who by virtue of her office chairs the committee, and eight additional members who are full and associate professors, who represent the PhD subjects in the various groups of subjects. In addition to this is one representative of each of the bodies.

The current composition of the committee can be found here (German only).

Each subject board comprises between two and six subject representatives who are professors, plus at least one representative of the PhD students (the number of members representing PhD students must not be more than one-third of the number of professors on a particular subject board). 
Each subject board guides and advises the coordinators from a subject matter point of view; it supports coordinators with the development of subject-matter-related, cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary events courses and events, and informs the organization unit it represents on subject-matter topics and all other matters dealt with by the Subject Board.

Members of the Subject Boards (Term of Office 1 February 2025–31 January 2027)

Subject Board History and Philosophy

Subject Board Classics, Asian and Oriental Studies, Gender Studies

• Prof. Dr. Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann (Seminar für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie) 

• Prof. Dr. Philippe Della Casa (Institut für Archäologie) 

• Prof. Dr. Nicolas Martin (Asien-Orient-Institut) 

• Sina Ritt, MA (Vertretung der Doktorierenden)

• Designated PhD Coordinator: Dr. Nora Gilgen

Subject Board Film Studies, Art History, Musicology, Cultural Analysis

• Prof. Dr. Bettina Gockel (Kunsthistorisches Institut) 

• Prof. Dr. Christine Lötscher (Institut für Sozialanthropologie und Empirische Kulturwissenschaft) 

• Prof. Dr. Laurenz Lütteken (Musikwissenschaftliches Institut) 

• Prof. Dr. Raphaèle Preisinger(Kunsthistorisches Institut) 

• Prof. Dr. Daniel Wiegand (Seminar für Filmwissenschaft)  

• Yamina Wehrli, MA (Vertretung der Doktorierenden)

• Designated PhD Coordinator​​​​​​​:: Dr. Miriam Volmert

Subject Board Literary Studies

• Prof. Dr. Isabel Karremann (Englisches Seminar) 

• Prof. Dr. Klaus Müller-Wille (Deutsches Seminar) 

• Prof. Dr. Mireille Schnyder (Deutsches Seminar) 

• Prof. Dr. Richard Trachsler (Deutsches Seminar) 

• Vertretung der Doktorierenden vakant 

• Designated PhD Coordinator​​​​​​​: Dr. Christoph Steier

Subject Board Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and Phonetics

• Prof. Dr. Eleanor Chodroff (Institut für Computerlinguistik) 

• Prof. Dr. Francesco Gardani (Romanisches Seminar) 

• Prof. Dr. Simone Pfenninger (Englisches Seminar) 

• Prof. Dr. Guido Seiler (Deutsches Seminar) 

• Prof. Dr. Paul Widmer (Institut für Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft) 

• Selma Hardegger, MA (Vertretung der Doktorierenden)

• Designated PhD Coordinator​​​​​​​: Dr. Sascha Völlmin

Subject Board Psychology

• Prof. Dr. Charles Driver (Psychologisches Institut) 

• Prof. Dr. Alexandra M. Freund (Psychologisches Institut) 

• Prof. Dr. Jörg Gross (Psychologisches Institut) 

• Prof. Dr. Brigit Kleim (Psychologisches Institut) 

• Prof. Dr. Klaus Oberauer (Psychologisches Institut) 

• Prof. Dr. Johannes Ullrich (Psychologisches Institut) 

• Aaron Lob, MSc (Vertretung der Doktorierenden)

• Nathalie von Rooy, MSc (Vertretung der Doktorierenden)

• Designated PhD Coordinator​​​​​​​: Dr. Maike Krannich

Subject Board Education and Teaching

• Prof. Dr. Franziska Felder (Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft) 

• Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Moser Opitz (Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft) 

• Prof. Dr. Stefan D. Keller (Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich) 

• Albiona Hajdari, MA (Vertretung der Doktorierenden)

• Designated PhD Coordinator​​​​​​​: Dr. Seyhan Bayraktar

Subject Board Social Sciences

• Prof. Dr. Annuska Derks (Institut für Sozialanthropologie und Empirische Kulturwissenschaft) 

• Prof. Dr. Moritz Ege (Institut für Sozialanthropologie und Empirische Kulturwissenschaft) 

• Prof. Dr. Mark Eisenegger (Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienforschung) 

• Prof. Dr. Daniel Kübler(Institut für Politikwissenschaft) 

• Prof. Dr. Lucas Leemann (Institut für Politikwissenschaft) 

• Prof. Dr. Katja Rost (Soziologisches Institut) 

• Pamina Syed Ali, MSc (Vertretung der Doktorierenden)

• Jacqueline Heinzelmann, MA (Vertretung der Doktorierenden)

• Designated PhD Coordinator​​​​​​​: : Dr. Doreen Spörer-Wagner

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Graduate School is the organizational and administrative umbrella for all PhD subjects offered by the University of Zurich Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. 

The Graduate School is there to promote junior scholars and support and advise PhD candidates and the faculty throughout a doctoral degree. It takes care of quality assurance and assumes the tasks associated with the doctoral degree.

The Graduate School comprises the Vice Dean of Studies responsible, the Executive Committee, the subject boards of the various groups of subjects, and PhD coordinators. The Vice Dean of Studies is supported by a coordination office. 

Reglement über die Organisation der Graduiertenschule der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Zürich (ROGS) (PDF, 90 KB)