The Board of the University of Zurich has appointed Joshua Weidlich to the DIZH interdisciplinary professorship in Digital Higher Education at PH Zurich and the University of Zurich. As a tenure-track assistant professor from 1 October 2024, he will promote topics relating to the digital transformation in university teaching in the higher-education hub of Zurich. The interdisciplinary professorship expands the collaboration between the University of Zurich and PH Zurich and supports research and innovation on topics related to the digital transformation with interdisciplinary approaches.

At the University of Zurich, Joshua Weidlich will be part of the Institute of Education. At PH Zurich, he will make a substantial contribution to the ongoing development of the Higher Education Development, Teaching and Learning research group. Joshua Weidlich will participate in subject-related exchange formats at the Centre for Education and Digital Transformation and the Centre for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

Joshua Weidlich studied educational sciences with a focus on e-learning and new media at Chemnitz University of Technology. He then gained a master’s degree in e-learning and media education from Heidelberg University of Education and subsequently completed his doctorate at the University of Hagen. Most recently, he worked as an academic associate at the DIPF Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education in Frankfurt am Main. There, he dealt with projects on competency-based feedback for digital learning and on factors for study success or discontinuation in digital study formats.