Senior lecturers: Habilitation

Habilitation procedure

The habilitation procedure at ETH Zurich is governed by the Habilitation Ordinance ETH Zurich of 2 June 2004. The duration of the procedure is dependent on the department. Enquiries should be addressed to the departmental secretariat, which can provide an estimate.

Procedure

The individual procedure is as follows:

1. The candidate informs the relevant department of the habilitation application, in order that the matter may be included on the agenda for the next professors’ conference.

2. The candidate submits the application to the Administration Academic Affairs no later than two weeks prior to this conference. The application will be forwarded to the department.

3. Since August 1, 2008 the adopted habilitation theses is inforced. It obliges all postgraduates to deliver a concurrent electronic version of their habilitation theses to the ETH-Bibliothek. >> further information

Habilitation without a habilitation treatise

It is possible to habilitate at ETH Zurich without submitting a habilitation treatise (Habilitation Ordinance ETH Zurich, Art. 4, para. 5a).

Recognition of habilitation by another university/department

The habilitation recognition procedure is governed by the Habilitation Ordinance ETH Zurich, Art. 4 para. 5b. This regulation applies

a) if a candidate is already a senior lecturer at another university or

b) if he or she is a senior lecturer at another ETH department but the head of department assigns the specialist area to another department. The procedure is the same as for the habilitation without a habilitation treatise.

Habilitationsverordnung (PDF, 167 kB)