Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The University of Zurich invites applications for an
assistant professorship with tenure track in prevention and mental health
The position should be filled either by 1 August 2025 or at the earliest opportunity.
After two temporary three-year contracts, the position will become tenured on
the condition that the candidate passes the evaluation process. This is a dual
professorship at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty of
Medicine, with a primary affiliation to the Department of Psychology at the Faculty
of Arts and Social Sciences.
Candidates must have a clear subject matter profile with a focus on clinical-psychological prevention research and an excellent international track record in
this field. The candidates’ research focus should be on the indicated and/or
selective prevention of mental disorders, including innovative approaches (e.g.
digital mental health, telemedical and/or personalized approaches, etc.). Research
work can be at the macro (e.g. identification of risk groups and courses; effects
on incidence and prevalence, etc.), meso (e.g. implementation and acceptance;
processes and outcome of preventive measures; client/caregiver characteristics,
etc.) and/or micro level (e.g. client/caregiver interactions; couple interaction in the
clinical context, etc.). Further psychotherapeutic training (specialist title, license to
practice) to become a psychotherapist in the adult field would be advantageous.
Successful candidates with existing psychotherapeutic training will be able to
participate in the UZH Center for Psychotherapy. In teaching, the professorship
should be able to cover the entire range of topics in clinical psychology.
In addition to innovative research impulses for the subject, the professorship is
expected to collaborate in research and teaching with other professorships at the
Department of Psychology and to cooperate in research at the Faculty of Medicine,
in particular at the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute. A good
national and international network and knowledge of the Swiss healthcare system
or the willingness to familiarize oneself with it are also expected.
Candidates must hold a PhD degree at the time of application and have an
excellent record of academic achievements in the relevant field. The administrative
language of the University of Zurich is German, which is why candidates are
expected to acquire a working knowledge of German within the first three years of
their appointment.
The Department of Psychology values transparent, reproducible and replicable
research and supports open science practices. Applicants are asked to outline in
their application how they have pursued these practices in the past and/or would
like to pursue them in the future.
The Department of Psychology, the University of Zurich and Zurich as a location
of higher education offer a stimulating research and teaching environment with
diverse opportunities for professional exchange and cooperation. The University
of Zurich is an equal opportunities employer. In order to increase gender diversity
in leading academic positions, qualified women and individuals from other
underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply
(https://www.gleichstellung.uzh.ch/en.html).
For further information
please contact Prof. Dr. Birgit Watzke (
b.watzke@psychologie.uzh.ch).
The closing date for applications is 24 April 2024. Details on the application
procedure are available on www.phil.uzh.ch/jobs.html.