Teaching-Assistant Positions

• Holding classes and responsibility for correcting the exercises of your practice group, or supervising students in the beginners' lab.
  
• Expected are 12 hours per week for practice sessions, including time for preparing and correcting, or two half-days per week for supervising students in the beginners' lab.
• You will receive help from the persons responsible for the exercises or the lab, who will provide hints for solving the exercises and information on the experiments. Your activity is limited to the term itself.

We are looking for Physics students at ETH Zurich who have passed their basic examinations with good average marks in the Physics subjects. Students who have not passed yet the 2^nd block of exams can only work as teaching assistants for service lectures offered to other departments.

For starters, an introductory didactic training session for teaching assistants is held each semester. Participation is mandatory for emplyoment as a teaching assistant at D-PHYS. Further information regarding the training is announced close to the start of the semester.

Bachelor students from third countries (i.e., states outside the EU/EFTA areas) can only be employed as an teaching assistants six months after their date of entry to Switzerland (as noted in the residence permit). These restrictions do not extend to Master's students. Further Information about required permits, documents, etc. can be found here.

As soon as the application window has opened, you can apply for a teaching assistant position via this Link. You will receive a response regarding your application by the beginning of the semester at the latest.

The application window for the spring semester usually opens in mid-November of the preceeding year, and for the autumn semester in mid-May of the same year.