Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? ETH Zurich, Zürich, 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 Development of high-throughput protein perturbation technologies
Summary of PhD Program:
High-throughput perturbation technologies rely on perturbing DNA or RNA to infer the function of proteins. Methods to directly perturb proteins, such as through targeted protein degradation, have been challenging to implement in high throughput. This project focuses on developing novel technologies combining CRISPR-Cas and targeted protein degradation for high-throughput protein perturbation, enabling protetype-to-phenotype mapping.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Global History
Summary of PhD Program:
While a postdoctoral researcher will explore the broader global entanglements of Swiss engineering, the PhD project, From Colonial Complicity to Intercultural Sensitivity? The Geologists Albert (1849–1937) and Arnold Heim (1872–1965), will focus on the (post)colonial backdrop and disciplinary shifts within geology, traced through the lives and work of ETH professor Albert Heim and his son, petroleum geologist Arnold Heim.
Application Deadline: 15 May 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental Cloud Physics: Investigation of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in Warm Clouds through Seeding Experiments
Summary of PhD Program:
The BeyondCloudlab project leverages weather modification techniques to enhance our understanding of aerosol-cloud interactions, ice crystal growth, cloud-radiation interactions, precipitation initiation, and cloud seeding. Building upon the Cloudlab project, the collaborating SNF project BeyondCloudLab (4 PhDs, 2 PostDocs) brings together a team including Prof. Lohmann and Dr. Henneberger (ETH) working on cloud microphysics and seeding, Prof. Mohr (PSI/ETH) leading aerosol chemical analysis, and Dr. David and Dr. Carlsen (University of Oslo) focusing on aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions.
Application Deadline: May 1, 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental Cloud Physics: Analysis of Ice Growth Pathways through Glaciogenic Seeding Experiments
Summary of PhD Program:
The BeyondCloudlab project leverages weather modification techniques to enhance our understanding of aerosol-cloud interactions, ice crystal growth, cloud-radiation interactions, precipitation initiation, and cloud seeding. Building upon the Cloudlab project, the collaborating SNF project BeyondCloudLab (4 PhDs, 2 PostDocs) brings together a team including Prof. Lohmann and Dr. Henneberger (ETH) working on cloud microphysics and seeding, Prof. Mohr (PSI/ETH) leading aerosol chemical analysis, and Dr. David and Dr. Carlsen (University of Oslo) focusing on aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions.
Application Deadline: May 1, 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cloud Modeling: Improvement of Microphysical Parameterizations based on Cloud Seeding Experiments
Summary of PhD Program:
The BeyondCloudlab project leverages weather modification techniques to enhance our understanding of aerosol-cloud interactions, ice crystal growth, cloud-radiation interactions, precipitation initiation, and cloud seeding. Building upon the Cloudlab project, the collaborating SNF project BeyondCloudLab (4 PhDs, 2 PostDocs) brings together a team including Prof. Lohmann and Dr. Henneberger (ETH) working on cloud microphysics and seeding, Prof. Mohr (PSI/ETH) leading aerosol chemical analysis, and Dr. David and Dr. Carlsen (University of Oslo) focusing on aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions.
Application Deadline: May 1, 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Earth Observation Remote Sensing
Summary of PhD Program:
The research focuses on the retrieval of snow and ice parameters and their dynamics using multimodal Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) observations. The aim is to explore two scientific topics within the cryosphere domain. The first topic involves analyzing SAR interferometry to generate time series of digital elevation models, which will facilitate the quantification of changes in glaciers and ice sheets on a large scale for assessing and estimating mass balance. The second topic centers on the characterization and identification of glacier crevasses and their dynamics over time through high-resolution SAR data.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemical Biology
Summary of PhD Program:
The position focuses on the development of chemigenetic tools that combine synthetic fluorophores with genetically encodable components like self-labeling protein tags for application in cell biology. The work is highly interdisciplinary and collaborative, involving synthetic chemistry and/or protein engineering as well as cell biology and fluorescence microscopy. The position is available from Fall 2025 onwards or earlier upon agreement.
Application Deadline: 2nd of Mai 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in modeling fracture in soft materials
Summary of PhD Program:
The Computational Mechanics of Building Materials (CMBM) aims to understand and predict mechanical failure in materials and structures. By combining numerical modeling tools with tailored laboratory experiments and theoretical models, we create a holistic perspective on mechanical failure, bridging the gap between material behavior at the small scale and principles governing catastrophic failure at the system level. CMBM is a highly interdisciplinary and international research team.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Developing innovative plasmonic materials
Summary of PhD Program:
The research focuses on developing innovative plasmonic materials. Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) are strong photon-induced collective hot-electron coupling effects, which can create intense and sensitive electromagnetic near field. SPR and LSPR have found intriguing successes in biosensing, control switches, signal amplifiers and modulators, and high-performance photocatalysis. The conventional plasmonic materials include noble metals, e.g. gold, which was extensively used in biosensing research in our group.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in oxide thin film growth – Nanoscale electrostatic control in ferroelectric thin films through lattice chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal of the doctoral project is to explore the potential of the chemistry of the lattice (charged off-stoichiometric layers, chemical variation in layered compounds, etc…) as an additional degree of freedom to act on the ferroelectric order in striking contrast with the conventional depolarizing-field tuning strategy. Using our unique capacity to engineer oxide thin films interfaces with atomic precision, combined with our state of the art non invasive optical probe of polarization in thin films, we will advance the exploitation of the surface chemistry in oxide ferroelectric thin films.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Adapting and Strengthening End-of-Life Steel Sections for Reuse through Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing
Summary of PhD Program:
The research project aims at developing guidelines and a computational design and robotic WAAM (wire arc additive manufacturing) fabrication framework for facilitating the reuse of end-of-life steel sections. This will be achieved by tasks related to (i) supply characterization and condition assessment of reclaimed steel sections, (ii) development of a computational design approach for adapting/strengthening steel sections with WAAM, (iii) evaluation of differences in the mechanical properties of the base material, the deposited material and the areas where these interfere
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in agricultural economics
Summary of PhD Program:
You will work on the project “Sustainability standards and the “hidden middle”—Insights from cocoa cooperatives and their workers in Côte d’Ivoire.” Sustainability standards like Fairtrade aim to reduce social and environmental exploitation in global supply chains, particularly for tropical crops like cocoa. With rising consumer demand, private-sector involvement, and government support, a growing share of cocoa production is certified, with Côte d’Ivoire as the largest producer.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in integrated photonics for levitation optomechanics
Summary of PhD Program:
Optical levitation in vacuum is an emerging branch of optomechanics exploiting lasers, optical cavities and RF traps for trapping and manipulating nanoparticles’ dynamics in engineered potentials. Motivated by both, exploring the limits of quantum mechanics, and exceptional sensitivity to inertial and force sensing, Levitodynamics is striving for miniaturization to both increase the robustness of experimental platforms and enter unexplored physical regimes. Hereby, one essential milestone is the development of on-chip levitation platforms integrating state of the art integrated photonics and RF control.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Monitoring water related mass-balance changes in the Swiss Alps with passive seismic interferometry
Summary of PhD Program:
At the interface of seismology, hydrogeology, and energy sciences, this project aims to advance the knowledge of how Earth’s shallow fluid systems change over time and space. Being able to closely observe and monitor these processes is pivotal in enhancing our understanding and management of critical resources such as water and energy, as well as geohazards. Switzerland is already heavily affected by climate change, with long hot and dry periods in summer, inexorably melting glaciers and snow-poor winters. In particular, in the Swiss Alpine region, these mass-balance changes have significant impacts on slope stability, induced seismicity and groundwater recharge.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in ecosystem COS exchange
Summary of PhD Program:
This position is part of the project Above- and below-canopy COS fluxes to constrain and partition forest CO2 and ET fluxes (ABACOS) funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The aim of this project is to quantify COS (carbonyl sulfide) fluxes at different spatial and temporal scales in a temperate broadleaf forest in Switzerland (Lägeren), using an unprecedented integration of co-located measurements. We will measure above- and below-canopy COS fluxes as well as CO2 and evapotranspiration (ET) fluxes, and quantify contributions of soil, branch, and understory vegetation to ecosystem fluxes.
