Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of 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 Climate Sciences: Next-generation vegetation modelling
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will tackle one of the major sources for uncertainty in climate and Earth system projections reliable predictions of how water and nutrients govern vegetation, carbon and water cycling, and their responses to a changing climate and CO2. The aim is to integrate eco-evolutionary optimality theory and observational constraints into a dynamic model for simulating global land ecosystem functioning and structure. You will innovate towards a next-generation vegetation model by combining improved ecosystem process understanding and first principles, numerical modelling, and model-data integration methods. Your work will extend the model developed and maintained in our group, integrating novel theory development by the LEMONTREE project partners. You will apply the model for testing novel theory against different observational data,
Application Deadline: 31 May 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in business administration
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 in the Department of Business Administration. We are filling a doctoral and assistant position on August 1, 2024 or by arrangement. The aim of the research is to develop operations research methods for use in project management.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Psychology/Neuroscience
Summary of PhD Program:
The working group of Prof. Dr. Jessica Peter researches how memory processes change with age or illness and which interventions are suitable to counteract this. The research group uses modern and innovative methods of cognitive neuroscience (e.g. MRI, neurofeedback). In the current project, non-invasive brain stimulation is used in younger and older people with depression in order to increase the remembering of positive things and the forgetting of negative things through changes in activity in the brain. At the same time, the change in activity in the brain is measured.
Application Deadline: 15.04.2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Economics
Summary of PhD Program:
Department of Economics at the University of Bern and the Center for Regional Economic Development (CRED). Fixed-term contract for four years. Start date as soon as possible. The Department of Economics at the University of Bern and the Center for Regional Economic Development (CRED) offer two PhD positions. The University of Bern is one of the leading universities in Europe and is internationally renowned for its research and teaching activities. The successful candidate will have the possibility to complete a PhD thesis at the Department of Economics.
Application Deadline: April 30 2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Translational Research Network in Motor Disorder Rehabilitation
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking to fill the position for the EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network “Translational Research Network in Motor Disorder Rehabilitation: Advancing understanding of variability in motor control and learning, to enhance clinical practice (TReND)”.The employment conditions are according to MC rules. Work on the following topics: (1) functional mechanisms for handling uncertainty in sensorimotor control and learning, (2) sensorimotor control and learning in Parkinson Disease Patients and/or older adults, with a particular focus on investigations on behavioural movement variability in different (patient) populations (experimental studies and data analysis).
Application Deadline: 26 April 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cardiac outcomes after childhood cancer
Summary of PhD Program:
Treatments of childhood cancer continue to improve. Four out of five children are cured from cancer, but intensive therapy causes health problems including cardiac dysfunction and impaired cardiopulmonary fitness. In your PhD, you will study cardiac health in adults who have been treated for childhood cancer in Swiss hospitals and are attending a cardiac follow-up clinic within the CardioOnco Study (www.cardiosurvivor.ch). You will collaborate with paediatric oncologists and adult cardiooncologists in five paediatric oncology centres in Switzerland to perform standardized cardiac assessments including conventional and speckle tracking echocardiography and cardiopulmonary exercise testing.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in business informatics
Summary of PhD Program:
The Information Engineering department deals with the management, design and use of IT systems and digital innovations. This includes, for example, the following subject areas: IT sourcing and IT project management, digital platforms and ecosystems, AI and data-driven organizations and digital transformation processes, blockchain-based services and business models.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
With global warming, global animal and goods traffic, and increased contact between wild animals and humans, the risk of the introduction of “new,” potentially zoonotic viruses is increasing. As the national reference laboratory for viral animal diseases, the IVI uses the most modern technologies to research the viral spectrum, the so-called virome, and to detect emerging viruses that may pose a risk to animal and human health at an early stage.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
9. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
Cough in Equine Asthma – Surveys among horse owners and development of AI-supported, non-invasive diagnostics. Cough is an important key symptom of equine asthma and other inflammatory respiratory diseases, but is difficult to quantify because of its sporadic occurrence and is often underestimated or not at all by horse owners perceived. In order to exploit the diagnostic potential of coughs, we are developing a wearable device and artificial intelligence for automatic long-term monitoring of coughs. The central task of the doctoral position is the clinical and scientific work for the development and validation of this new telemedical diagnostics in collaboration with specialists as part of technological development and data analysis.
Application Deadline: April 30, 2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
Global warming, the global movement of animals and goods and increased contact between wild animals and humans are increasing the risk of the introduction of “new”, potentially zoonotic viruses. As the national reference laboratory for viral animal diseases, the IVI uses state-of-the-art technologies to research the viral spectrum, the so-called virome, and to detect emerging viruses that may pose a risk to animal and human health at an early stage.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
11. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
We are a dedicated research and teaching department in the areas of strategic management, entrepreneurship and innovation. Our activities with further training offers, projects and events are part of the Bern entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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12. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics
Summary of PhD Program:
Ideally, the successful candidates will spend the first year participating in the Swiss Program for Beginning Doctoral Students in Economics in Gerzensee before writing their dissertations in macroeconomics/monetary economics. We anticipate employment levels of 75% – 100% and expect commitment to high quality research; interest in questions related to macroeconomics/monetary economics; and the willingness to support teaching (BA, MA level) or other academic activities. The positions are funded by a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) grant for a project entitled “Money and Debt in the 21st Century: Liquidity, Safety, Redistribution.”
Application Deadline: Open until filled
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in modelling multi-trophic interactions in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project will be part of a bigger project, which aims to understand the context-dependency of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships with a primary focus on multitrophic interactions, eutrophication and spatial processes and scales. The successful PhD candidate will investigate the role of multitrophic interactions and eutrophication in shaping biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships, thereby contributing to advancing our understanding of the intricate connections within ecosystems. Your research will play a pivotal role in addressing fundamental questions and fostering a mechanistic comprehension of these dynamic relationships.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Monitoring of Tourist Flows for Sustainable Development in alpine Tourism Destinations
Summary of PhD Program:
As a successful candidate you will work in an interdisciplinary team developing different models for alpine tourism destinations toward more sustainable development. The conflicting goals of protecting and simultaneously utilizing the natural potential of destinations will be addressed conceptually. Destination-specific considerations will be developed to measure, monitor and forecast the development of tourism destinations toward sustainability according to different types of tourism flows. The project aims to propose appropriate indicators for sustainable spatial development at destination levels, including identifying necessary multi-criteria data and data collection strategies.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in developmental psychology
Summary of PhD Program:
A position as a doctoral candidate is available at the Department of Developmental Psychology at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Bern from August 1, 2024 or by appointment. The position is limited to 3 years. The holder of the position should independently carry out, evaluate and publish the results of empirical projects in kindergartens and primary schools that focus on the cognitive and metacognitive development of children under different conditions and in different situations. A focus will be on children’s ability to recognize their own strengths and weaknesses as well as any errors and insecurities that may have occurred when completing tasks (metacognitive monitoring).
Application Deadline: April 15, 2024
16. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in 4D Evolution of the Swiss N-Alps
Summary of PhD Program:
The Institute of Geological Sciences (University of Bern, Switzerland) invites applications for two 4 years PhD positions, which are embedded in the swisstopo project ‘3D Alps’. The aim of the project is to obtain a complete 3D model of the Central Alps, in which the PhD candidates of the announced positions focus on the 3D modelling of the Helvetic sediment nappes and underlying basement units. The expected 3D model provides the base for a tectonic 3D restoration yielding in the 3D paleogeography of the proximal to distal former European passive continental margin prior to inversion during collision tectonics. Besides 3D geometry, also constraints on the thermo-chronological evolution of the study area will be incorporated for the restoration process.
Application Deadline: 15th of April 2024
17. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
A doctoral position is available at the Department of Personality, Differential Psychology and Diagnostics at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Bern. We are looking for a person to support the department in differential psychology and basic diagnostic research. As part of the doctorate, cognitive processes underlying intelligence (and/or creativity) will be investigated using appropriate experimental designs and with the help of psychophysiological methods such as EEG, heart rate variability or eye tracking. The position also includes teaching support in the bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in psychology.
