DIZH - Key Persons


Charlotte Axelsson

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Chair / Head of E - Learning ( ZHdK )

Dr. Alexandra Jansky

Job Titles:
  • Head of Digital Education and Innovation ( UZH )

Dr. Beate Böckem

Job Titles:
  • Head of Research Affairs ( ZHdK )

Dr. Helge Johannssen

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator Office Innovation Program

Dr. Karin Mairitsch

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Steering Committee
  • President ZHdK ( Chair )

Dr. Maria Olivares

Job Titles:
  • Head Innovation ( UZH )

Dr. Markus Weil

Job Titles:
  • Head of Higher and Adult Education ( PHZH )
Note: The submission and recusal rules in the DIZH Innovation Programme (PDF, german) regulate both the submission of applications and the recusal from reviewing and approving project proposals.

Dr. Martin Berger

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer Education and Social Sciences ( PHZH )

Dr. Martin Jaekel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Board
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Head of Research and Development Unit, ZHAW

Dr. Ramona Mosse

Job Titles:
  • Head of Study Theatre ( ZHdK )

Dr. Reto Thaler

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Steering Committee
  • Member of the Management Board
  • Chairman / Secretary General, PHZH

Dr. Roberto Sala

Job Titles:
  • Head of Office for Research & Development Services ( PHZH )

Dr. Silvia Passardi

Job Titles:
  • Controlling & Finance

Dr. Susanne Schumacher

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Steering Committee
  • Member of the Management Board
  • Chairman / Chair Digital Council, ZHdK

Julian Keuzenkamp

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate ZHAW Digital

Lesley Spiegel - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
  • Managing Director of the Head Office
In March 2020 Lesley Spiegel was appointed Managing Director of the Head Office of DIZH - the Digitalization Initiative of the Canton of Zurich's Institutions of Higher Education. From 2015 until 2019 she headed the Institute of Design Research at the Zurich University of the Arts and was member of the Digital Council of ZHdK. Lesley acted as CEO of the Foundation Technopark Zurich from 2004 - 2009. She worked for Ernst & Young Corporate Finance and was many years active as Management Coach building innovation-oriented Start-ups and as Expert for Innosuisse. In addition, she acted as Advisory Board member of the Impact Hub Zurich and the ETH Entrepreneur Club, promoted innovation as Jury Member of the Falling Walls Lab competition and acted as lecturer at ETH Zurich dedicated to innovation and academic start-ups.

Lisa Dörrer

Job Titles:
  • Deputy
  • Innovation Program

Prof. Abraham Bernstein

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Board
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Director Digital Society Initiative, UZH

Prof. Christoph Weckerle

Job Titles:
  • Head of Zurich Centre for Creative Economies ( ZHdK )

Prof. Dr. Anja Schulze

Job Titles:
  • Director of Swiss Center for Automotive Research, Swiss CAR ( UZH )
Prof. Dr. Monika Götzö Director of the Institute for Diversity and Social Integration (ZHAW)

Prof. Dr. Barbara Getto

Job Titles:
  • Chairman / Professor of Media Education / Centre for Education and Digital Transformation ( PHZH )

Prof. Dr. Dirk Wilhelm

Job Titles:
  • Chairman / Dean and Managing Director School of Engineering ( ZHAW )

Prof. Dr. Dorothea Christ

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • President Office of Universities of the Canton of Zurich

Prof. Dr. Hanja Hansen

Job Titles:
  • Vice - Rector for Continuing Education and Services ( PHZH )
  • Vice Rector Continuing Education and Servicesg ( PHZH )

Prof. Dr. Heinz Rhyn

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • President PHZH

Prof. Dr. Jean-Marc Piveteau

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • President ZHAW

Prof. Dr. med. Emanuela Keller

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Neurointensive Medicine ( UZH )

Prof. Dr. Michael Schaepman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Steering Committee
  • President UZH ( Chair )

Prof. Dr. Monika Götzö

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Institute for Diversity and Social Integration ( ZHAW )

Prof. Dr. phil Miriam Schmidt-Wetzel

Job Titles:
  • Professorin Fachdidaktik Kunst Und Design / Mitglied Im Digitalrat ( ZHdK )

Prof. Dr. Ross Purves

Job Titles:
  • Professor Geocomputation ( UZH )

Prof. Dr. Sascha Schneider

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Educational Technology / Institute of Education ( UZH )

Prof. Dr. Thomas Ott

Job Titles:
  • Director of Institute of Computational Life Sciences ( ZHAW )

Prof. Swetlana Heger-Davis

Job Titles:
  • Head of the Department of Fine Arts ( ZHdK )

Sabine Dani

Job Titles:
  • Communication & Administration

Thomas Korner

Job Titles:
  • Head of Innovation Lab, Ressort Education ( ZHAW )

Wanja Kröger

Job Titles:
  • Head of Dossier Teaching ( ZHdK )