DSI Professorships

The Digital Society Initiative (DSI) aims to help shape the digital transformation of society and science. With this goal in mind, the DSI promotes the establishment of assistant professorships and research groups at UZH.

With the help of assistant professorships, research competencies on promising topics are to be developed. Furthermore, the DSI supports the planning of regular and extraordinary professorships relevant to digitalization through expertise and fundraising.

The DSI professors work on the following topics (listed alphabetically):

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

• Computer-assisted Surgery

• Computational Linguistics

• Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law

• Data Systems and Theory

• Data Science

• Digital Bioinorganic Chemistry

• Digital and Mobile Health

• Digital Methods in Classical Archaeology / Image Science

•     Digital Religion(s): Beth Singler / Thomas Schlag

• Digitalized Communication Spaces

• Econometrics

• Educational Technology

• Empirical Software Engineering

• Interactive Visual Data Analysis

• Labour Geography

• Language‚ Technology and Accessibility

• Legal Data Science

• Legal Tech, Law and Economics, and Public Law

• Management of Digital Transformation

• Mobility and Digital Innovation Management

• Political Behavior and Digital Media

• Quantitative Network Science

• Reinforcement Learning / Multi-agent Learning

• Regulatory Sciences

• Social Computing

Would you like to get to know the DSI professors a little better? Here you can get an overview of the people.