Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in business administration (operations research)
Summary of PhD Program:
The University of Bern is ranked among the top 150 universities worldwide. The Chair of Quantitative Methods in Business Administration at the Department of Business Administration represents the areas of operations research, analytics, and operations management in research and teaching. We are seeking a PhD and assistant position starting August 1, 2025, or by arrangement. The goal of the research is the development of operations research methods for application in project management.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Pharmaceutical Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
Our group started to develop 3D culture models of fibrosis in endometriosis and used these to evaluate antifibrotic drugs with the potential to be repurposed for endometriosis. The doctoral student will work with biomaterials, additive manufacturing, cell culture techniques, extracellular vesicles, and omics technologies and will learn how to develop advanced therapeutics for the treatment of fibrosis in a multidisciplinary environment in close collaboration with preclinical and clinical laboratories.
Application Deadline: April 30 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in just climate resilience & social learning with film
Summary of PhD Program:
You will be part of the transdisciplinary EU-funded Horizon project “JustREACH: Just Climate Resilience through Enhanced Adaptation and Capacity Harnessing”. The project aims to enhance resilience by empowering local actors to achieve equitable climate adaptation outcomes. We will work in five pilot regions in urban, industrial, and rural settings in Germany, France, Greece, the UK and Croatia. Facing resource constraints, the authorities often struggle to balance overlapping objectives and to co-create an understanding of just resilience.
Application Deadline: April 15, 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in just climate resilience & social learning
Summary of PhD Program:
The research project involves researchers, citizens with a cause, policymakers, businesses, and civic organizations to co-create tools and ways of working together to implement climate adaptation plans for well-being and societal transformation. Social learning videos with authentic storytelling will be co-created at all pilot sites to share their transformative knowledge about adaptation processes.
Application Deadline: 15. April 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in interface of virology and organoid research
Summary of PhD Program:
You are curious, motivated, and resilient, with strong organizational skills and with the ability to work independently while staying focused on key objectives. At the same time, you thrive in a collaborative environment and excel as a team player. You possess both theoretical and practical expertise in stem cell biology, virology, and/or immunology. Experience with embryonic stem cell culture techniques and confocal microscopy is highly desirable.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
6. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
The research group of the department (Prof. Dr. Dr. Christiane Zweier) focuses on the clinical, genetic and functional characterization of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), including intellectual disability and epilepsy. Neurodevelopmental disorders are an important health concern affecting 2-3% of the population and are clinically and genetically extremely heterogeneous. Understanding the underlying causes and pathomechanisms is crucial to path the way for development of targeted therapies.
Application Deadline: 30.04.2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Small Animal Cardiology
Summary of PhD Program:
The Division of Small Animal Internal Medicine, Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Switzerland invites applications for the position of Senior clinician in Small Animal Cardiology (50-100%). We are looking for a small animal cardiologist to join our team. Applicants should hold Diplomate status with the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ECVIM-CA) or the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) in the specialty of cardiology.
Application Deadline: April 30, 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Paleoecology & Paleogenomics
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD student you will study vegetation responses to climate change and human disturbance using innovative paleoecological and paleogenomic methods. The position involves fieldwork such as ice coring in the Pyrenees and the European Alps, microscopic analyses of pollen and plant macrofossils, the isolation of aDNA in a designated clean-air laboratory, and the analysis of paleoecological and paleogenomic data using advanced bioinformatic tools to assess genetic diversity variation.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Public Administration / Political Science
Summary of PhD Program:
We are a nationally and internationally renowned research center in the field of public administration. As an interdisciplinary unit of the Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Law, we are committed to interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research between the disciplines of political science, management, and law.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Public Administration / Political Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The doctorate is part of the SNSF-funded research project “Public Administration under Pressure”, which begins in September 2025, is scheduled to run for four years and includes a collaboration with the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP). The project will investigate the various pressures that public administrations face, how they adapt to these challenges, and the implications for their performance. The successful candidate will work in the “Political Science” team with Prof. Dr. Fritz Sager at the KPM Center for Public Management in Bern.
