Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of 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 Educational Science
Summary of PhD Program:
At the University of Zurich, Institute of Education, Chair of Teaching and Educational Technology, we offer a part-time position (60 %) for a research assistant / PhD student, starting on 01.08.2024 or by appointment. The primary responsibility of the chair is to train secondary school teachers in planning and designing effective teaching and learning activities, with a particular focus on integrating digital technologies.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Veterinary Parasitology
Summary of PhD Program:
Veterinary Parasitology: we focus on different aspects of parasite infections in a wide array of animals aiming at better animal health, welfare and productivity. We investigate the pathological and pathophysiological processes inducing parasitic diseases, the molecular negotiations between parasites and their hosts, and develop and study the performance of diagnostic tools for individual analyses and epidemiological studies. Our overall goal is to understand the pathogenesis of parasitoses and to identify appropriate therapies and control measures.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mathematics with coordination of all mathematics modules
Summary of PhD Program:
The Institute of Mathematics (I-Math) at the UZH is using contributions from the PH Zurich to finance a doctoral position. This position is filled every 3-4 years. In addition to a doctorate at I-Math, the position offers an insight into teacher training and is particularly suitable for people who are interested in pedagogical and didactic topics or who are looking to work at a high school.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in computational chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project will deal with development and application of novel, accurate approaches for the study of functional catalytic compounds. A possible direction of the project is the development of advanced dynamic approaches for detailed and realistic study of reaction mechanisms and reaction networks considering in a sophisticated manner environmental effects (also under catalytic conditions). This can include the development of advanced enhanced sampling and machine learning approaches.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Personnel Economics and Economics of (Vocational) Education
Summary of PhD Program:
You will be enrolled in the Graduate School of Business with good opportunities to interact with grad students from all departments at the Faculty of Business, Economics, and Informatics. You will be taking graduate courses in the doctoral program on Economics of Education in the Swiss Leading House VPET-ECON as well as have the opportunity to take other relevant graduate courses within the Faculty. The expected duration of the PhD is 4-5 years.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in A.I. for healthcare
Summary of PhD Program:
Our goal is to develop state-of-the-art approaches and build best-in-class methods to capitalize on multimodal clinical information for building robust decision support systems powered by (explainable and interpretable) predictive algorithms for guiding patient therapy across all disease stages, the assessment of treatment effects using counterfactual inference and the identification of causal mechanisms driving disease progression (see examples of our latest work [1-8]). Moreover, there are possibilities to expand the research scope towards working with heterogeneous biomedical data.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in focus on gender segregation in occupations
Summary of PhD Program:
The University Research Priority Program (URPP) “Human Reproduction Reloaded | H2R” explores the societal impacts and legal implications of human reproduction. This interdisciplinary positioned URPP brings together researchers from six faculties as well as from various disciplines from the humanities, social, medical, and natural sciences. You will join a working group within this program, consisting of two senior researchers and another PhD. We focus on the value-related origins and the economic consequences of reproductive preferences. This position is located at the Department of Sociology, which is one of the leading empirically oriented institutes in Switzerland and Europe.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantitative Methods for Psychology
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is located within the Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich and offers an outstanding work and research environment. The workgroup for Quantitative Methods of Intervention and Evaluation is active and internationally connected in quantitative methods and psychometrics. The workgroup’s focus is to develop and apply new statistical methods and software for (intensive) longitudinal and multilevel data, extending and linking classical statistical approaches used in psychology (e.g. SEM, regression) with newer approaches such as Bayesian methods, stochastic differential equations (continuous time), and machine learning.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in German linguistics
Summary of PhD Program:
The project “BOND: Birth of new dialects? – Swiss German in traditional Romansh areas”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, examines the emergence of new Swiss German dialects in the traditional area of the Romansh varieties Sutsilvan and Sursilvan. The project lies at the interface of dialectology, language and dialect contact research, sociolinguistics and grammar research. The aim of the project is, on the one hand, to close a gap in dialectological research and, on the other hand, to expand existing work on new dialect formation by examining grammatical phenomena.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computational Social Science / Data Donation
Summary of PhD Program:
The Institute for Communication Science and Media Research at the University of Zurich (IKMZ) is looking to fill a position as a doctoral student at the chair of Prof. Dr. Thomas Friemel as of January 1, 2025 or by arrangement. With around 80 employees, the IKMZ is one of the largest communication science institutes in Europe and provides an excellent infrastructure for research and teaching, an inspiring academic environment and excellent employment conditions. The University of Zurich also offers numerous opportunities for continuing education and a wide range of interdisciplinary cooperation opportunities.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
11. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
The Asia-Oriental Institute of the University of Zurich is the largest center for research and teaching on Asia in Switzerland with a total of around 100 employees. The Department of Japanese Studies welcomes applications for two academic assistants with the possibility of pursuing a doctorate at the Chair of Japanese Studies under the direction of Prof. Dr. Raji C. Steineck. The assistant position at the Chair of Japanese Philology allows you to carry out your own research project (doctoral project). The position includes independent teaching and study advice (at BA and MA level) as well as collaboration on projects and administration at the chair.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Interaction of GLP-1 and Amylin agonists in the control of eating
Summary of PhD Program:
The massive rise in obesity rates is mainly due to changes in lifestyle, in particular increased caloric intake. Promising emerging therapies rely on the combination of gut hormones and their agonists. To pursue important questions regarding pharmacotherapy using GLP-1 and amylin agonists, we offer an attractive position in a collaborative project with another university in Europe and a US based university. The experimental work of this project will combine in vivo approaches with analyses at the cellular and subcellular level to resolve the mechanisms mediating the actions of GLP-1 and amylin agonists. This project will use a large array of behavioral experiments in rats and mice.
Application Deadline: 15.08.2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Conformal Prediction for Biomedicine
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Rheumatology at the University Hospital and University of Zurich covers all rheumatic inflammatory and non-inflammatory conditions. This EULAR Center of Excellence currently has 40-60 employees working in research and about 60 employees in clinical service. You will be part of the team to build the new RAI Platform – Reliable AI for Biomedicine. You will deploy and develop conformal prediction models for researchers at the University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich. You will develop new conformal prediction methods for non-standard data and present your results at major machine learning conferences (e.g., NeurIPS and ICML)
Application Deadline: Open until filled
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in small animal internal medicine Residency Internal Medicine
Summary of PhD Program:
The clinic’s training program is recognized by both the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine – Companion Animals (ECVIM-CA) and the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM). Training is generally carried out in accordance with the guidelines of the ACVIM. The clinic has specialists in the various subspecialties of internal medicine (general internal medicine, gastroenterology, endocrinology, nephrology/urology, clinical infectiology, cardiology, dermatology) and state-of-the-art equipment.
Application Deadline: September 30, 2024
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biomedical Data Science and Bioinformatics
Summary of PhD Program:
The Krauthammer Lab is looking for a PhD candidate to expand our multinational research team of bioinformaticians and data scientists at the University of Zurich working on cutting-edge translational research problems. The main project that the candidate will be responsible for (and which provides funding for the position) concerns the multimodal data analysis in colorectal cancer (clinical records and multiomics). The candidate is expected to contribute to other ongoing projects with regard to machine learning in genomics and bioinformatics.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Implementation Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care (IfIS) is based at the Medical Faculty. Implementation Science is an applied research field dedicated to optimizing the integration of evidence-based practices and research findings into routine practice to improve the quality and effectiveness of health care. The research group of Prof. Lauren Clack “Implementation Science in Health Care” offers a PhD position in the implementation science work package of the EU Horizon 2020 Framework project NeoIPC. The objective of the project is to establish innovative approaches for optimal infection prevention of resistant bacteria in Neonatal Intensive Care Units by integrating clinical research, implementation science and surveillance.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computational Astrophysics
Summary of PhD Program:
The applicant will contribute to the development of an in-house high-performance code by integrating astrophysical processes with a focus on GPU acceleration. Key tasks include implementing baryonic processes relevant for galaxy formation and developing a machine learning-based emulator for stellar feedback. Additionally, the project involves collaboration with the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre for the visualization of galaxy simulations. This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of astrophysics and advanced computational methods.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
18. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
The job includes working on exciting publication projects, especially in the area of corporate law, as well as supporting teaching activities. There is also the opportunity to help with problems in legal practice (preparing legal opinions, etc.) for a separate fee. Administrative tasks are not the main focus. People with a master’s degree can write a dissertation in addition to their assistant position. In addition to their role as assistant, assistants with a master’s degree write their dissertation. The assistants at the chair are on full-time duty for a few months at a time and can work on their dissertation undisturbed during the “chair-free phase”. It is important to the chair holder to offer his doctoral students the best possible support.
