29 Notable alumni of University of Applied Sciences Zurich
Updated: June 06, 2026 EliteDegrees
University of Applied Sciences Zurich is 9494st in the world, 1st in North America, and 23st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 29 notable alumni from University of Applied Sciences Zurich sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of Applied Sciences Zurich won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Alexander Hahn
1954-. (aged 72)
video artist
visual artist
digital artist
Alexander Hahn is an artist working with electronic media. An artistic innovator in his field, he integrates the time-based form of video with practices of computer imagery and print, animation, virtual reality, installation, and writing. He addresses the electronic image as a technological metaphor for perception, memory and dream: signals oscillate between lighting up and blanking out, between sensory presence,...
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2. Karim Noureldin
1967-. (aged 59)
artist
university teacher
Karim Noureldin is a Swiss visual artist.
3. Dina Yakerson
1983-. (aged 43)
painter
Dina Yakerson is an Israeli art historian and artist. She is the daughter of Shimon Iakerson.
4. Oliver Schnyder
1973-. (aged 53)
pianist
musician
Oliver Schnyder is a Swiss classical pianist.
5. Alexey Retinsky
1986-. (aged 40)
composer
painter
Alexey Retinsky was born on 14 November 1986 in Simferopol, Crimea. He is an Austrian composer and artist of Russian-Ukrainian origin.
6. Andrea Štaka
1973-. (aged 53)
screenwriter
film director
film producer
film editor
Andrea Štaka is a Swiss film director and screenwriter, best known for winning the Golden Leopard at the 59th Locarno International Film Festival in 2006 for her film, Das Fräulein.
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7. Sasha Huber
1975-. (aged 51)
artist
video artist
Sasha Huber is a contemporary artist living and working in Helsinki, Finland. Her work deals with colonial and post-colonial relationships negotiated by African and Caribbean diasporas. She uses photography, moving image, site specific performance, landscape, research and collaboration to explore individual and collective performances of colonial-era pseudo science, racial categorization, migration within the transatlantic slave trade, memorialization and transnational capitalism.
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8. Pia Gyger
1940-2014 (aged 74)
writer
psychologist
Pia Gyger was a Swiss specialist for special education, psychologist and Zen master of the White Plum Sangha lineage. She was the co-founder of the Lassalle-Institute within the Lassalle-House in Bad Schönbrunn/Zug, Canton of Zug. She was co-initiator of the Jerusalem-Project.
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9. Ursula Mauch
1935-. (aged 91)
politician
Ursula Mauch is a Swiss chemist, educator and politician who served on the National Council (Switzerland) from 1979 to 1995. She was the first female member to represent the Canton of Aargau constituency. She previously served on the Grand Council of Aargau from 1974 to 1980 for the Social Democratic Party. She is the mother of Corine Mauch, who currently...
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10. Yves Netzhammer
1970-. (aged 56)
video artist
animator
sculptor
new media artist
photographer
Yves Netzhammer is a Swiss artist who lives and works in Zurich. Born in Schaffhausen, he studied architecture there and later obtained a diploma at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich, department of visual design. He has been working with video installations, slide projections, drawings and objects since 1997. Since 2006 Netzhammer publishes online in the blog Journal for...
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11. Myriam Thyes
1963-. (aged 63)
television producer
photojournalist
video artist
artist
Myriam Thyes is a new media artist from Switzerland. She lives and works in Düsseldorf.
12. René Burri
1933-2014 (aged 81)
photographer
photojournalist
René Burri was a Swiss photographer. Burri was a member of Magnum Photos and photographed major political, historical and cultural events and key figures of the second half of the 20th century. He made portraits of Che Guevara and Pablo Picasso as well as iconic pictures of São Paulo and Brasília.
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13. Nik Bärtsch
1971-. (aged 55)
record producer
writer
composer
jazz musician
percussionist
Nik Bärtsch is a Swiss pianist, composer, bandleader, record producer and author from Zürich.
14. Klaus Huber
1924-2017 (aged 93)
conductor
university teacher
composer
music educator
violinist
Klaus Huber was a Swiss composer and academic based in Basel and Freiburg. Among his students were Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm, and Kaija Saariaho. He received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2009, among other awards.
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15. Xavier Koller
1944-. (aged 82)
screenwriter
director
film director
Xavier Koller is a Swiss film director and screenwriter. He is most known for his work on the Disney live action film Squanto: A Warrior's Tale, an adventure historical fiction film based on the life of Squanto, and his film Journey of Hope, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990.
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16. Markus Imhoof
1941-. (aged 85)
film director
screenwriter
Markus Imhoof is a Swiss film director, screenwriter, theatre and opera director.
17. Max Huber
1874-1960 (aged 86)
politician
university teacher
judge
diplomat
jurist
Max Huber was an influential Swiss graphic designer.
18. Paul Burkhard
1911-1977 (aged 66)
composer
writer
Paul Burkhard was a Swiss composer. He primarily wrote oratorios, musicals and operettas. The contemporaneous and similarly named Swiss composer Willy Burkhard was no relation to him.
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19. Rudolf Lutz
1951-. (aged 75)
conductor
university teacher
pianist
composer
music educator
Rudolf Lutz is a Swiss organist, harpsichordist, conductor and composer.
20. Peter Voser
1958-. (aged 68)
businessperson
Peter Robert Voser is a Swiss businessman, who is the chairman of the Swedish-Swiss company ABB. He was the CEO of the Dutch-British corporation Royal Dutch Shell from July 2009 to December 2013. He was interim CEO of ABB from April 2019 to February 2020. He started his career at Royal Dutch Shell in 1982, working in a number of...
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21. H. R. Giger
1940-2014 (aged 74)
film director
architect
painter
sculptor
designer
Hans Ruedi Giger was a Swiss artist best known for his airbrushed images that blended human physiques with machines, an art style known as "biomechanical". He was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for the visual design of Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien, and was responsible for creating the xenomorph alien itself. His...
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22. Vicky Krieps
1983-. (aged 43)
stage actor
theatrical director
television actor
actor
film actor
Vicky Krieps is a Luxembourgish-German actress. She has appeared in a number of American, Luxembourgish, French, and German productions. Her breakout role was in the London-based period film Phantom Thread (2017), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
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23. Anne-Sophie Mutter
1963-. (aged 63)
violinist
music educator
Anne-Sophie Mutter is a German violinist. Born in Rheinfelden, Baden-Württemberg and raised in the nearby town Wehr, Mutter began playing the violin at age five and pursued further studies in Germany and Switzerland. She was supported early in her career by Herbert von Karajan, made her orchestral debut with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1977, and rose to international prominence in...
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24. Oliviero Toscani
1942-2025 (aged 83)
photographer
designer
Oliviero Toscani was an Italian photographer, best-known worldwide for designing controversial advertising campaigns for Italian brand Benetton from 1982 to 2000.
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25. Arthur Honegger
1892-1955 (aged 63)
film score composer
classical composer
musicologist
composer
music educator
Oscar-Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. Honegger was a member of Les Six. For Halbreich, Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher is "more even than Le Roi David or Pacific 231, his most universally popular work".
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26. Kim de l'Horizon
1992-. (aged 34)
writer
playwright
Kim de l'Horizon is a Swiss nonbinary novelist, playwright and thespian. In 2022, they won the German Book Prize and the Swiss Book Prize for their debut novel Blutbuch.
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27. Philippe Jordan
1974-. (aged 52)
conductor
pianist
Philippe Jordan is a Swiss conductor and pianist.
28. Bruno Ganz
1941-2019 (aged 78)
television actor
stage actor
film director
film actor
Bruno Ganz was a Swiss actor whose career in German stage, television and film productions spanned nearly 60 years. He was known for his collaborations with the directors Werner Herzog, Éric Rohmer, Francis Ford Coppola, Theo Angelopoulos and Wim Wenders, earning widespread recognition with his roles as Jonathan Zimmerman in The American Friend (1977), Jonathan Harker in Nosferatu the Vampyre...
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29. Othmar Schoeck
1886-1957 (aged 71)
pianist
conductor
composer
Othmar Schoeck was a Swiss Romantic composer and conductor. He was known for his considerable output of art songs and song cycles but also wrote operas, notably the one-act Penthesilea, premiered in Dresden in 1927, and instrumental works, including two string quartets and concertos for violin (for Stefi Geyer), cello and horn.
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