Doctoral studies panel

Responsibilities of the Doctoral Studies Panel

The Doctoral Studies Panel of the D-BIOL meets once a month. The Doctoral Studies Panel acts on behalf of the Department Conference of the D-BIOL and reports to the Department Conference regularly. The panel is responsible for the following tasks:

• Evaluation of admissions to the doctorate without and with extended doctoral studies
• Approval of co-examiners from ETH Zurich who are not professors of ETH Zurich
• Approval of co-examiners who do not belong to ETH Zurich
• Approval of research work within the doctoral framework conducted outside the ETH domain
  
• Approval of the doctoral committee
• Appointment of chairs of the aptitude committee
• Evaluation of doctoral theses proposed for distinction
• Elaboration of guidelines for the doctorate at the D-BIOL
  

Members of the Doctoral Studies Panel

• Prof. Dr. Samuel Zeeman, Director of Studies (Institute of Molecular Plant Biology)
• Prof. Dr. Kaspar Locher (Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics)
• Prof. Dr. Wolf-Dietrich Hardt (Institute of Microbiology)
• Prof. Dr. Anton Wutz (Institute of Molecular Health Sciences)