Proceeding for doctoral students
The below proceedings apply to doctoral candidates in the Department of Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich.
Due to the new Ordinance on Doctoral Studies of ETH Zurich and the Rector’s Implementation Provisions for the Ordinance on Doctoral Studies ETH Zurich (valid from 1 January 2022), new regulations came into force. Please inform yourself on the student portal of the ETH doctoral administration.
Detailed stipulations regarding the doctorate (D-ERDW), valid from 1 January 2022
Detailed stipulations regarding the doctorate (D-ERDW), for doctoral students with provisional admission before 1 January 2022
Legal basis
The doctorate is regulated by the Ordinance on the Doctorate at ETH Zurich and the associated implementing provisions of the Rector’s Implementation Provisions for the ETH Zurich Ordinance on the Doctorate.
If the doctorate is linked to any employment at ETH Zurich, this is regulated by the Ordinance Governing Scientific Employees of ETH Zurich and the Directives for Doctoral Students Employed at ETH Zurich with the corresponding information sheet.
Second advisor
Doctoral students at ETH Zurich are supervised by at least two persons: the supervisor of the doctoral thesis and a second advisor. The second advisor must have a doctoral degree, is an expert on the subject matter, and is preferentially a scientist at ETH Zurich.
Provisionally admitted doctoral students who were enrolled as doctoral students after 01.01.2022 must appoint a second advisor at the latest 4 weeks before the aptitude colloquium.
Progress report and annual status conversation
Doctoral students who have been definitively admitted write an annual progress report on the status and planned progress of their research project, as well as on any significant deviations from the research project described in the doctoral plan. The progress report is then discussed in the annual status conversation.