Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Lausanne, Vaud, 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 Plant Genetics
Summary of PhD Program:
The candidate will join a highly-motivated and diverse group of researchers who study the genetics and genomics of crop domestication using tomato and related species as model system. The successful candidate will perform research on a project to investigate the function of gene regulatory sequences in the context of crop domestication. More specifically, the candidate will study variation in regulatory sequences that affected flower formation during tomato domestication and engineer novel regulatory sequences by genome editing. The candidate will conduct cutting-edge approaches in molecular biology, confocal microscopy, and genomics, including novel applications in precision genome editing and high-resolution RNA imaging. The project will include wet and dry lab experiments, and activities in growth chambers and greenhouses.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in History of Medieval or Early Modern Palestine
Summary of PhD Program:
As part of its commitment to advancing Palestinian studies, the University of Lausanne (UNIL) is supporting research in this field by awarding a doctoral fellowship for a project focusing on the history of Palestine and Palestinian societies. The Institute for the History and Anthropology of Religions (IHAR), affiliated with the Faculty of Theology and Sciences of Religions (FTSR) at UNIL, is pleased to invite applications for a: PhD Candidate in the History of Medieval or Early Modern Palestine (100%)
Application Deadline: June 15th, 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Organizational Behavior
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Organizational Behavior at the Faculty for Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne provides a stimulating and highly interdisciplinary research environment (https://www.unil.ch/ob/home.html). We value the diverse areas of expertise among department members, who hold Ph.D.s in business, management, psychology, economics, and population biology. More broadly, the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne is one of the largest faculties on campus and consists of 10 departments. We publish in top-tier journals in numerous disciplines, including Academy of Management Journal, American Economic Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Leadership Quarterly, Nature, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Making Processes, Organizational Research Methods, PNAS, and others.
Application Deadline: May 31, 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in modern English Literature
Summary of PhD Program:
UNIL is a leading international teaching and research institution, with over 5,000 employees and 17,000 students split between its Dorigny campus, CHUV and Epalinges. As an employer, UNIL encourages excellence, individual recognition and responsibility. The Faculty of Arts of the University of Lausanne invites applications for a full-time assistantship in modern English Literature in the English Department.
Application Deadline: 14th April 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Contemporary History
Summary of PhD Program:
The History Section of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Lausanne is advertising a position for a graduate assistant in Contemporary History.
Your profile
Master of Arts (or equivalent qualification) in History or any other discipline with a strong historical component (degree obtained at the time of taking up the position).
Willingness to write a thesis in contemporary social and cultural history
Candidates should demonstrate an interest in research and teaching. An interest in sound and audiovisual history will be an asset.
Application Deadline: April 16, 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Religious Emergences and New Spiritualities
Summary of PhD Program:
Writing a doctoral thesis in the fields of religious diversity, including new spiritualities in institutional, urban or ecologically engaged contexts, under the supervision of Prof. Irene Becci (50% of the activity rate) and support for teaching and research in these fields (50% of the activity rate).
Application Deadline: May 1, 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Contract Law
Summary of PhD Program:
To complete its team, the Private Law Center of the Law School of the Faculty of Law, Criminal Sciences and Public Administration is looking for a graduate assistant in the law of obligations for Professor Laurent Bieri.
Application Deadline: April 10, 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in comparative genomics or experimental biology of the gut microbiota
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD will join an SNSF Starting grant project and an international collaboration called GLOMUS. The project aims at understanding how the gut microbiota co-evolved with their mammalian hosts using computational and experimental approaches. The PhD can choose between two research axes, either
1/ Computational focus: the candidate will leverage large metagenomic datasets and use comparative genomics approaches to measure to what extent gut microbes and their mammalian host co-diversified for millions of years. The applicant will reconstruct and annotate metagenomes assembled genomes (MAGs) to build bacterial phylogenies and compare them to host phylogeny.
2/ Experimental focus: the candidate will isolate, whole-genome sequence and phenotypically characterize gut bacteria from wild micro-mammals. The PhD will then use comparative genomics approaches to test if certain bacterial phenotypes are associated with co-evolution with the mammalian host.
Application Deadline: 27.04.2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Modern History (16th-early 19th centuries)
Summary of PhD Program:
A leading international teaching and research institution, UNIL has nearly 5,000 employees and 17,000 students, spread between the Dorigny campus and the CHUV and Epalinges sites. As an employer, it encourages excellence, personal recognition, and responsibility. The History Section of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Lausanne is advertising a position for a graduate assistant in Modern History (16th-early 19th centuries).
Application Deadline: April 21, 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Hebrew Bible
Summary of PhD Program:
The person hired is integrated into the Romand Institute of Biblical Sciences of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Lausanne. In particular, he or she is called upon to participate in teaching and research in Hebrew Bible / Old Testament, in collaboration with Professor Stephen Germany. He or she is also called upon to conduct personal research work (doctoral thesis).
Application Deadline: 04/15/2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Contemporary Art History
Summary of PhD Program:
The Centre for Historical Sciences of Culture of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lausanne is advertising a position for a graduate assistant in the field of contemporary art history. Applicants should demonstrate an interest in the interdisciplinary research and teaching represented in SHC and a willingness to undertake doctoral work in the field of art history, from a cultural history perspective.
Application Deadline: April 27, 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in personalized psychological interventions
Summary of PhD Program:
The project is based on a combination of observational and experimental studies, aiming to better understand the links between different types of needs, the interventions implemented, the mechanisms of change, and the effects of support. It draws on advances in personalized medicine and psychotherapy to propose an empirical framework promoting the personalization of counseling and guidance interventions. A wide range of data will be collected and analyzed, including questionnaires, video recordings of counseling sessions, and session diaries.
Application Deadline: 04/28/2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Inequality and Integration
Summary of PhD Program:
The Graduate School for Public Administration of the University of Lausanne is looking for a PhD student 80% (max. 5 years), ideally starting in September 2025. The PhD researcher will work in close collaboration with Prof. Flavia Fossati and the team members of the Inequality and Integration research unit. We are looking for a new colleague who is eager to work on and interested in contributing to the overall research agenda of the research unit. Our current projects focus on the politics of immigration in the fields of education, equal opportunities, and labour markets. Thereby, we study attitudes, policies and the politics of these questions mainly through quantitative and experimental methods.
