Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? ETH Zürich, 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 UAV-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar Remote Sensing
Summary of PhD Program:
You will join an innovative, highly motivated international research team to investigate advanced SAR imaging algorithms and geo-/biophysical parameter retrieval approaches relevant for future satellite SAR remote sensing concepts. Derived applications include, but are not limited to, 3-D vegetation structure/biomass retrieval, measurement of ground motion (landslides, subsidence) using monostatic and bistatic SAR.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Supply Chain Management
Summary of PhD Program:
Supply chains are undergoing major changes. Rising geopolitical tensions, the need to manage environmental, social, and governance risks, and changing customer preferences have pushed supply chain management to the top of the executive agenda. The capabilities of supply chain start-ups and emerging technologies such as digital twins and artificial intelligence are being used to improve supply chain management.
Application Deadline: March 15, 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Transportation and Mobility Planning
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for motivated individuals to do a PhD in our key research areas. We are especially interested in candidates with an interest in either traffic safety and/or personal security and/or active travel in relation to transport and mobility planning. Other research topics are welcome, as long as they match the group’s general vision and are fitting and complementary to the group skills and research areas.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Moisture Transport in Carbonated Cementitious Materials
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project includes the experimental characterisation of microstructure and moisture transport properties of carbonated and non-carbonated cementitious materials. Both established, state-of-the-art and advanced experimental techniques will be applied. This project will be in collaboration with numerical modelers in the research group. Experimental data will be used to feed, calibrate and validate moisture transport models.
Application Deadline: 15 March 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Decentralized Resource-Constrained Machine Learning
Summary of PhD Program:
The Distributed Computing group at ETH Zurich is looking for a PhD candidate to work on the SNSF Ambizione 2023 project “eDIAMOND: Efficient Distributed Intelligent Applications in Mobile-Network Dynamics”, starting on 1 September 2025. The eDIAMOND project aims at developing new methods and systems for decentralized and distributed data-driven methods for Federated Learning on resource-constrained networks. Your research within the project will contribute towards your doctoral degree at ETH Zurich. You will be supervised by Prof. Dr. Roger Wattenhofer and Dr. Antonio Di Maio.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in landscape modeling (landscape design – landscape science)
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD student will investigate tipping points in Baukultur qualities related to the sense of place by leveraging 3D point cloud technologies within a design-science loop across three case studies in Switzerland. In particular, the candidate will co-develop 3D point cloud models with stakeholders in the case studies and assess their performance in terms of Baukultur qualities contributing to sense of place. To assess the performance of the designs, the candidate will develop a model linking Baukultur qualities and sense of place utilizing Large Language Models and use cognitive-psychological methods to assess impacts on sense of place.
Application Deadline: 30th of March 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantitative Online Discourse Research
Summary of PhD Program:
You will be part of a collaborative team committed to rigorous research on how to improve public discourse on social and online media and other digital platforms. We study the effects of platforms’ policies and work with them to design and test interventions to improve the quality of online discussions and reduce harm caused by hate speech. To do so, we combine data from social media, online newspapers and original surveys with causal inference and machine learning methods to bring new evidence to bear on the urgent problems policymakers and practitioners face.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in combustion instabilities of hydrogen flames
Summary of PhD Program:
This research work will combine experiments and modeling. The experimental research will be performed on a lab-scale, high-pressure test facility. Experimental techniques for fluid mechanics, combustion and acoustics will be used, including laser-based optical diagnostics. The modeling work will consist in the development of analytical low-order models of the combustion instabilities, and in large eddy simulations of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Stimuli-Responsive Organometallic Chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The Bezdek Group applies the tools and approaches of organic/ inorganic/ organometallic chemistry to synthesize molecules and materials with stimuli-responsive (sensory) and energy storage function. The targeted chemistry spans organic molecules, transition metal complexes and carbon nanomaterials.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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10. 10 Fully Funded PhD Position in Wood Materials Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The DCs will build on ground-breaking findings being generated at the RE-Fibre consortium, to enable the development of fully recyclable functional biobased composites with properties on par with fossil-based counterparts. They will gain competencies, not only in a breakthrough scientific field but also in interdisciplinary and interpersonal skills. Additionally, they will expand their network and gain experience through participating in secondments (research stays at a site of an academic or industrial partner).
Application Deadline: 28.02.2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Wood Materials Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The DCs will build on ground-breaking findings being generated at the RE-Fibre consortium, to enable the development of fully recyclable functional biobased composites with properties on par with fossil-based counterparts. They will gain competencies, not only in a breakthrough scientific field but also in interdisciplinary and interpersonal skills. Additionally, they will expand their network and gain experience through participating in secondments (research stays at a site of an academic or industrial partner).
Application Deadline: 28.02.2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Metal-assisted Chemical Etching for X-ray Gratings Microfabrication
Summary of PhD Program:
The SNSF-funded project ABSOLUTE (nAnoassemBled catalySt and electrOchemicaL processing for hUge aspecTratio microstructurEs) aims to develop a novel catalyst approach for defect control in metal-assisted chemical etching (MacEtch) of silicon. The ultimate goal is to create high aspect ratio absorption gratings for X-ray grating-based interferometry, used in diagnostic imaging in collaboration with our spin-off company, GratXray. Your primary focus will be on catalyst synthesis and MacEtch processing.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in large-scale 3D-printing for architecture
Summary of PhD Program:
You will lead the project’s work package around hardware and process development for HC3DP. Different nozzle designs and extrusion profiles can tremendously affect the printed result and are investigated as a parameter to precisely control a range of hollow core layered and even spatial extrusions. Furthermore, you will collaborate with the Ph.D. student of the CDL group and the postdocs, on closed-loop control systems with machine learning, and design for fabrication workflows.
Application Deadline: February 28th 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Climate Change Impacts on Hazards from Rock Glaciers
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project will instrument rock glaciers, which are also prone to debris flows, with a novel moitoring system. The position therefore includes a significant amount of field work in the Swiss Alps. The collected data will enable to accurately quantify erosional events. The PhD student will use this data to study drivers of sediment supply events (e.g., meteorological data). Furthermore, data on past hazards will be collected and incorporated into the analysis.
Application Deadline: February 28, 2025
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Strategic Management
Summary of PhD Program:
The selected PhD candidate will embark on a research project culminating in a dissertation of at least three high-quality papers intended for top-tier journals. Co-supervision will be provided by Prof. Georg von Krogh and a team of senior researchers at SMI. Expected starting time: June 2025.
Application Deadline: March 20, 2025
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Control & Dynamical Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
This project investigates the mathematical, physical, technical, and organizational conditions necessary to enable higher levels of automation in railway operations. A key challenge lies in the variability and lack of precise train dynamics data, particularly for freight trains with varying lengths, weights, and wagon conditions, often carrying partially unknown loads. This uncertainty results in conservative estimates of braking rates and dynamic performance, reducing efficiency both at the individual train level and across the network, and limiting the potential benefits of automation.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sustainable Robotics
Summary of PhD Program:
Natural organisms evolved to be extraordinary survivors thanks to their self-healing abilities. Robots with comparable survivability could not only address pressing issues of sustainability, but also unlock powerful robotic functions such as resilience and intelligence towards physical damage. We envision a class of sustainable robots that are not easily damaged, can self-heal from damage, can survive catastrophic failure, and can be recycled or reprocessed at the end of life. The goal of this project is to develop novel sustainable soft materials and demonstrate the sustainable robotic functions in the real-world environment.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Probing biomolecular interactions with plasmonic sensing
Summary of PhD Program:
The research focuses on probing biomolecular interactions with plasmonic sensing. 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 associated with noble metal nanostructures. SPR and LSPR have been demonstrated as powerful tools to study nanoscale bimolecular interactions and sensitive biosensing. Our group has been engaged in plasmonic biosensing as for real-time and label-free biomolecular interaction analysis, such as airborne virus detection, local aggregation of proteins and nucleic acids, etc.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Modelling materials with local lattice instabilities
Summary of PhD Program:
Our research focuses on crystals exhibiting electronic disorder, where degenerate electron configurations lead to fascinating physical phenomena such as colossal magnetoresistance and polaronic transport. This project aims to develop novel computational frameworks to understand and predict the structure of such materials.
