About the Graduate School

The Department of Geography at the University of Zurich (GIUZ) is one of Europe's leading research centres in Geography and Earth System Science, excelling in all major areas of geographical research. We collaborate with many partner institutions and PhD candidates at the Graduate School carry out inter- and transdisciplinary research across a wide range of social, computational and natural science topics and in study areas across the globe.

The Graduate School provides a structured study program for all PhD candidates, has the following objectives:

to expose PhD candidates to work across the breadth of geography;
to encourage the development of skills in assessing and commenting on a broad range of geographical research;
to provide opportunities for networking throughout the study period;
to improve writing skills, particularly with respect to targeted scientific writing for conferences, journals and dissertations;
to provide PhD candidates with mechanisms to develop key transferable skills;
to make PhD candidates aware of the possibilities for their future careers, and to equip them with a set of skills for academic and non-academic routes; and
provide opportunities for supervisors to develop their supervisory skills.

We have put together some films introducing the Graduate School, and allowing some former members to tell about life in Zurich.

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Management and Advisory Board

Management

Director: Prof. Dr. Hanna Hilbrandt
Coordinator: Dr Isabelle Gärtner-Roer
Administrative support: Karin Klein

Advisory Board
The Advisory Board provides input on all matters relating to the curriculum and running of the Graduate School. This board consists of one professor and one PhD student from each of the three core disciplines (Human, Physical and Methodological Geography) within the Department of Geography. The Advisory Board meets at least once per semester.

Current Advisory Board members are (in alphabetic order):

Prof. Christian Berndt, Economic Geography

Prof. Sara Fabrikant, GIScience

Prof. Andreas Vieli, Glaciology and Geomorphodynamics Group

Prof. Alexander Damm, Remote Sensing Laboratories

Andreas Henz, Physical Geography

Donatella Zingaro, GIScience and Remote Sensing Laboratories

Mary Ann George, Earth System Science

Chitrangada Choudhury, Economic Geography