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Sonja Hildebrand is an art historian who studied at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Freie Universität Berlin. She received her PhD from Technische Universität München in 1997 with a prize-winning dissertation on Egon Eiermann. In 2008, she habilitated in art history, and she has conducted research projects and taught at Technische Universität München, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, ETH Zürich, and Universität Zürich. In 2010, she served as a substitute professor at ETH Zurich for the former chair held by Werner Oechslin. In 2011, she was appointed Professor of History of Modern and Contemporary Architecture at Università della Svizzera italiana. Since 2021, she has been the Pro-Rector for Research Humanities and Equal Opportunities, and will become Pro-Rector for Sustainable Transformation and Equal Opportunities in April 2024. Hildebrand has served in various faculty functions at USI, including Vice Dean for Research at the Accademia di architettura, co-president of the Doctoral board, and a member of the Teaching commission and Research commission. Her research focuses on the history of architectural culture and theory in the 19th and 20th centuries and includes the work of Gottfried Semper, contemporary architecture, and the impact of Nazi Germany on architectural history. She is currently leading an SNSF project on Semper's theoretical work "Der Stil". Her publications cover modern architecture, urbanism, architectural theory, and education, including several monographs and edited volumes, and she has curated exhibitions at prominent institutions including the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich and Kunsthaus Zürich.
Department of Finance - Master in Finance (MFIN).