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 Neurobiological and digital phenotyping towards digital mental health interventions in depression
Summary of PhD Program:
MASE is an ERA-NET NEURON-funded (supported by SNSF in Switzerland) project which will set the basis towards evidence-based, tailored and expedient mental health interventions fostering primary and secondary prevention. Its multidisciplinary consortium of 5 European partners aims to: a) apply brain network analyses to identify types of brains likely to profit from activity subjective energy association (ASEA); (b) use artificial intelligence to identify where and when nonexercise activity helps people with certain brain properties; (c) conduct an experimental study to test if the intervention suggestions found in step (a) and (b) really work out in everyday life; and (d) develop and design a smartphone app that delivers ASEA interventions and provides suggestions when and where to engage in which short nonexercise activity to maximize participation rates.
Application Deadline: 30.09.2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Investigating peripheral vision usage in sports and driving
Summary of PhD Program:
You will be part of our young team working on the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Starting Grant project entitled “Mechanisms of peripheral vision in complex decision making” (TMSGI1_211220 / 1). In the first phase, we focus on mechanisms behind the use of peripheral vision in experimentally controlled settings in our Virtual Reality laboratory. In the second phase, we investigate if these mechanisms can be trained to enhance decision-making processes in football and transferred to other domains like car driving.
Application Deadline: October 15, 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in climate and weather extremes and agriculture in the Central Andes
Summary of PhD Program:
The Climatology group of the Institute of Geography and Oeschger Centre, University of Bern, led by Prof. Stefan Brönnimann, announces an open PhD position in climate and weather extremes in the Central Andes and their effect on agriculture. This project, which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, aims at providing information for building a decision support system for agriculture in the Central Andes.
Application Deadline: 28 October 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
The Blank Lab and Seydoux Lab are associated with the Berne University Hospital and are part of the Lung Precision Medicine Program (Head Prof. Thomas Geiser) in the Department of BioMedical Research of the University of Bern. Both labs serve as basic and translational research platforms and are involved in research activities analyzing the impact of inhaled environmental or biomedical formulations on the respiratory airways’ immune responses, both in healthy individuals and in the light of different diseases affecting the lung, such as lung fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma and cystic fibrosis. The labs are in close collaboration with the clinical Department of Pulmonary Medicine and the Kinderklinik at the Inselspital.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Analytical Chemistry / Environmental Biogeochemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a talented and highly motivated candidate who is interested to take part in our interdisciplinary project titled “Analytical developments for the characterization of environmental Hg nanoparticles” This project is financed internally and will take place at both the Federal Institute of Metrology and the Institute of Geography. It will take full advantage of state-of-the-art analytical facilities present at both institutes (e.g. clean room, gloveboxes, ICP-MS and microscopy platforms, incubation facilities, etc).
Application Deadline: October 31st 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
At the Civilian Seminar, Department of Prof. Stephan Wolf, Professorship for Private Law and Notarial Law, a research assistant position – praedoc – is to be filled with an employment rate of 60 – 80% (of which one third for the own scientific project). Start of employment by arrangement. The work essentially involves participation in teaching and collaboration on research projects, namely scientific publications.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Clinical Substance Use Epidemiology
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a PhD Student in Clinical Epidemiology to join the research team of the BIHAM (www.biham.unibe.ch) and work on the 5-years follow-up visits of the ongoing Efficacy, Safety and Toxicology of ENDS (ESTxENDS) randomized controlled trial, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). ESTxENDS is a participatory, interprofessional and interdisciplinary research project of a team of national and international researchers including epidemiologists, qualitative researchers, clinicians, biostatisticians, toxicologists and public health experts. You will work under the guidance of Prof. Dr. med. Reto Auer (head of substance use research at the BIHAM) and associated researchers at BIHAM.
Application Deadline: November 1st, 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Clinical Substance Use Epidemiology
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a PhD Student in Clinical Epidemiology to join the research team of the BIHAM (www.biham.unibe.ch) and work on the 5-years follow-up visits of the ongoing Efficacy, Safety and Toxicology of ENDS (ESTxENDS) randomized controlled trial, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). ESTxENDS is a participatory, interprofessional and interdisciplinary research project of a team of national and international researchers including epidemiologists, qualitative researchers, clinicians, biostatisticians, toxicologists and public health experts. You will work under the guidance of Prof. Dr. med. Reto Auer (head of substance use research at the BIHAM) and associated researchers at BIHAM.
Application Deadline: November 1st, 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Artistic Failures in Renaissance Ceramic Workshops
Summary of PhD Program:
The AFIRE project will highlight the interconnectedness of Central Europe where from the 16th century patrons and artists strove to establish local production of tin-glazed earthenware at the highest level. The project seeks to create an overview of the types of technical failure across artistic workshops in areas considered peripheral by mainstream art history, areas as distant from each other as Lesser Poland, Moravia and Istria. Those areas were characterised by different geological conditions, political systems, economic potential, and religious practices.
Application Deadline: October 15th 2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in molecular cell biology
Summary of PhD Program:
The Institute of Cell Biology at the University of Bern is seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join the lab of Prof. Torsten Ochsenreiter. The research will focus on the molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial transcription in the human and animal parasite Trypanosoma brucei, using molecular biology biochemical and high end microscopy techniques. The Institute of Cell Biology at the University of Bern is seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join the lab of Prof. Torsten Ochsenreiter. The research will focus on the molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial transcription in the human and animal parasite Trypanosoma brucei, using molecular biology biochemical and high end microscopy techniques.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Macroeconomics/ Empirical Macroeconomics
Summary of PhD Program:
You will engage in research and teaching activities within the Macroeconomics group of the Department of Economics. Your work will focus on projects related to Monetary Economics and Empirical Macroeconomics, including those involving detailed microdata analysis.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Islamic/Middle Eastern Studies – SNSF Starting Grant Project “TraIL: Tracing Labour in Islamicate Legal Traditions”
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD student will join the research team of the SNSF Starting Grant Project, “TraIL: Tracing Labour in Islamicate Legal Traditions.” The project began in March 2024 and will run for 60 months. TraIL aims to provide cutting-edge research on the legal history of labour in Islamicate societies, diversifying our understanding of labour through textual and digital methods of analysis. The focus will be on the intersection of labour and gender in Islamic legal traditions across a long historical span (from the 10th to the 20th century). The geographical focus will be on Egypt and the region of Bilād al-Shām (Greater Syria, which corresponds to modern Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and Palestine).
Application Deadline: 15 October 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you interested in a position at the Civilian Seminar/Institute for Banking Law? Possible vacancies with Prof. Dr. Susan Emmenegger (upon request): The research areas concern contract law (focus on OR AT) and financial market law. There is the possibility of writing a dissertation. Start of employment by agreement and with regard to current or future research projects.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in business administration (Operations Research)
Summary of PhD Program:
The University of Bern is one of the 150 best universities in the world. The professorship for quantitative methods in business administration represents the areas of operations research, analytics and operations management in research and teaching at the Department of Business Administration. We are filling a doctoral and assistant position as of February 1, 2025 or by agreement. The aim of the research is to develop methods of operations research for use in project management.
