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 Nanofabrication of Neuromorphic Devices
Summary of PhD Program:
ETH Zurich is one of the world’s leading universities specialising in science and technology. It is renowned for its excellent education, cutting-edge fundamental research and direct transfer of new knowledge into society. The Departement of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering is dedicated to world-class research and education in electrical engineering and electronic information processing, including biomedical engineering and brain research. Within the D-ITET, the Integrated Systems Laboratory (IIS) focuses on microelectronics, optoelectronics and nanotechnologies.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Magnetoelectric Nanoparticles for Enhanced Catalysis
Summary of PhD Program:
Have you ever dreamed of controlling chemical reactions using magnetic fields? With magnetoelectric composite nanoparticles acting as catalysts, this possibility has recently been demonstrated at ETH. In this PhD position, you would investigate the relationship between characteristics of magnetoelectric composite nanoparticles and the magnetic stimuli that we apply to them to trigger their catalytic effects. By leveraging this knowledge, we hope to further enhance their catalytic abilities.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biofabrication and 3D BioPrinting
Summary of PhD Program:
The Tissue Engineering and Biofabrication Laboratory (Prof. Marcy Zenobi-Wong) within the Department of Health Sciences & Technolgy (D-HEST) at ETHZ in Zurich, Switzerland, uses bioprinting to produce tissues which address unmet clinical needs. The laboratory has recently developed a light-based 3D printing technique, capable of creating topological cell guiding cues in large scaffolds (> centimeter scale) based on optical modulation instability effect and self-focusing effect on non-linear media (e.g., photosensitive resin). This allows for creating efficient cell guiding microstructures including microfilaments and microchannels in 3D hydrogel constructs within seconds.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Machine Learning for 3D Computer Vision
Summary of PhD Program:
We are offering a fully-funded position for a motivated and talented individual to join our research team as a doctoral student and develop generative visual AI models for 3D data. This research opportunity is part of a collaborative project with our partners at Google Research, focusing on developing advanced visual AI models for multiview and 3D-consistent image generation. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on pioneering research in AI, contributing to both academic advancements and industry-leading innovations. The position is available from October 2024 onwards.
Application Deadline: 31st of October 2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Rethinking Frequency Control in Power Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
The existing power system operation architecture has organically grown over nearly a century, as new needs emerged, as technology and methods have advanced, and its recent development is also guided by the liberalisation of energy markets. In particular, energy balancing and frequency control nowadays rely on the classical three-level architecture of – sorted from seconds to hours – primary frequency control for stabilisation, secondary frequency control to regulate the frequency and area balancing error to a nominal value, and tertiary control to reschedule the grid operating point.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Protein Chemistry and Biocatalysis
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, we aim to develop a novel protein bioengineering technology to develop robust and efficient biocatalysts, with the potential to become a universal tool to transform any enzyme/cell into a more efficient biocatalyst. In reaching its goals, this project will not only consolidate but also expand the role of biocatalysis in industry, biomedicine, and biotechnology towards a more sustainable society.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digital Fabrication and Computational Optimization
Summary of PhD Program:
We will develop novel methods to generate 3D models for fabrication via 2D laser cutting, foldable paper, 3D printing, and a combination of them in conjunction with novel optimization-based computational methods for better fabrication outcomes. The research will be related to the areas of 3D modeling, computer graphics, digital fabrication, geometric processing, and geometry generation.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sensing and Controlling the Large-Scale Anaerobic Digestion of Human Excreta to Minimize Health Risks and Carbon Emissions
Summary of PhD Program:
Recently, the commercialisation of low-cost, modular anaerobic digesters (also known as “biogas digesters” or “biogas plants”) has increased demand for this well-established, but far from optimised, technology. Much of the interest associated with the new systems comes from the need for the methane-rich biogas, which can be used as a sustainable source of cooking fuel. Components for pressurising, storing, and burning biogas have also become plentiful. However, the resulting effluent contains harmful concentrations of pathogens and must be treated further before it is safe for handling or disposal.
Application Deadline: 2024-09-30
9. 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 January 2025 onwards or earlier upon agreement.
Application Deadline: 31st of August 2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in modelling & optimising highly efficient drive systems for E-vehicles based on GaN devices
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking individuals with outstanding academic credentials and a high level of motivation to engage in doctoral research on the development of highly efficient future drive systems for electric vehicles with a battery system voltage exceeding 1 kV. In order to achieve high efficiency across a wide operating range, it is necessary to evaluate, model and optimise different four-level inverter topologies and suitable modulation schemes for drive systems. It is crucial to consider a wide operating range, given that the inverter is directly connected to the medium-voltage battery, which has a wide voltage range depending on the state of charge.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in designing, modelling & optimising charging systems for E-vehicles based on GaN devices
Summary of PhD Program:
The Laboratory for High Power Electronic Systems (HPE) at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering of ETH Zurich conducts internationally leading research on power electronic converter systems, which are required, for example, in future energy distribution systems for the integration of renewable energy sources or in traction applications/electric mobility. Another research focus is on solid-state pulse modulators for medical applications (computer tomography/cancer treatment) and accelerators (CERN).
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Learning from Observations and Experts for facilitating Decision Support for Wind Energy Structures
Summary of PhD Program:
The scientific aim of IntelliWind is to reduce the role of humans in the decision process, as well as reducing the need for direct human interventions in the operations and maintenance process for wind energy structures. This frees up human resources to carry out more elaborate, better planned, and more efficient operations – leading to significant improvements in cost efficiency (3-5% lower Levelized Cost of Energy), and reduced labour-intensiveness of wind farm operations.
Application Deadline: September 30th 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Macromolecular engineering of covalent adaptable networks
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project builds upon efforts in our lab to understand how the molecular nature of dynamic polymer networks influences their mechanical properties [Webber and Tibbitt Nat. Mater. Rev. 2022, 7, 541–556]. This will include the chemical design of new dynamic polymer networks; using rheology to link molecular behavior to macroscopic behavior [Marco-Dufort et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 15371–15385]; and physical modeling to develop structure–function relations. The goal is to provide fundamental insights on how to better engineer dynamic polymer materials for a range of applications, including as viscoelastic biomaterials, recyclable materials, or printable bioinks for engineered living materials.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
14. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Environmental Organic Chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
Photochemical transformations play an important role in altering natural organic matter in aquatic systems. These projects are focused on the study of photoexcited natural organic matter and other reactive oxidants that are formed in essentially all waters exposed to sunlight. Photoexcited natural organic matter and the other photochemically generated oxidants are responsible for oxidizing sulfur-containing compounds and oxidizing organic carbon to biolabile compounds and inorganic carbon.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in cartography / geovisualization / storytelling
Summary of PhD Program:
The IKG is looking for a doctoral candidate in the field of storytelling to support the cartography group in its research and teaching activities (fixed-term position). The research, concepts and deliverables will be developed in close collaboration with the “Atlas of Switzerland” team. It is planned that the generic descriptive language and data format, the programming library and the authoring tool developed during this doctorate will be used to generate storytelling content and publish it in the “Atlas of Switzerland”, the Swiss national atlas. Furthermore, the candidate will be involved in related teaching/tutoring as well as in supervising theses.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Topological materials at the nanoscale
Summary of PhD Program:
Topological conductors include many different materials with exotic transport properties, such as Weyl and Dirac semimetals. The existence of topologically protected surface in these materials entails low-dissipation electronic transport, with highly promising potential applications for state-of-the-art CMOS technology and other applications. In this project, the successful candidate will explore and develop topological conductors – materials, devices and test structures – with the goal of understanding their properties at length scales relevant to future electronics.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Social Networks and Digital Cultural Consumption
Summary of PhD Program:
We are an interdisciplinary lab studying social and behavioral phenomena using network concepts. Members of the lab actively develop theories, methods and software in a variety of domains, for our own empirical studies and for our collaborative endeavors across multiple discplines. The group of Prof. Christoph Stadtfeld is looking for a motivated PhD student interested in combining social network research with analysis of digital trace data in the domain of music tastes and cultural consumption.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Karma economies
Summary of PhD Program:
The problem of repeated resource allocation in a competitive setting, when agents have private and time-varying need for the resource, can be described as a population game endowed with Markovian dynamics. This formalism is practical for analyzing the agents’ rational behavior and for designing mechanisms that ensure efficient resource allocation. One such mechanism is the “karma game,” where an agent-by-agent karma counter guarantees bookkeeping of the resource allocation and allows agents to strategically disclose their preference with their bids but without any truthfulness assumption.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computational Chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The Doctoral Network MC4DD “MC4DD – Macrocycles for Drug Discovery”, funded within the framework of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), follows an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approach by bringing together leading experts in macrocyclic drug discovery from academia and industry from the fields of organic synthesis, medicinal, high-throughput and computational chemistry, pharmacological and structural analytics, and modelling.
Application Deadline: August 31, 2024
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Reality Capture for Real Estate Valuation
Summary of PhD Program:
The doctoral project at ETH Zurich (research project 5a) is part of the response to the fifth objective, ‘Digital expansion of valuation’. The project will explore potential mechanisms for enabling the paradigm shift in real estate valuation. The lack of information on the existing building stock is notoriously a source of uncertainty in valuation methods. In addition, large-scale circular practices in construction require an efficient flow of information that is often not yet available. Thus, the digital transformation of the built environment opens up new perspectives for real estate valuation in the CE.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in building history/building research (timber construction/roofing)
Summary of PhD Program:
One of the most fundamental goals of every building project is to create a “roof over your head”. The larger the space to be covered without supports and the flatter the roof pitch, the more difficult this task becomes. From the 12th century to the present day, craftsmen, architects and engineers have developed a wide variety of solutions for this, which have often remained almost untouched. The oldest surviving roof structures in Central Europe date back to the 11th century. The surviving historical roof structures are a central subject of research in the history of building and construction.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Health Ethics and Policy lab
Summary of PhD Program:
The Health Ethics and Policy lab has expertise in bioethics, philosophy, social science, medicine, public health, data science, policy and law. We pursue high-level scholarship, participate in international research & policy networks, and conduct public engagement activities. The lab focuses on ethical and policy challenges in rapidly evolving areas of biomedicine. We aim to identify and tackle these challenges through an interdisciplinary approach fostering both theoretical and empirical methods.
Application Deadline: August 31st, 2024
23. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Designing and Optimizing Materials for Bacterial-Based Sustainable Biopesticide Delivery Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
The heavy use of pesticides and fertilizers in agriculture is crucial for the food supply. However, this practice leads to significant environmental and health issues, including poisoning, environmental degradation, and the development of insecticide resistance. EU policies and the UN Sustainable Development Goals advocate for safer, more sustainable alternatives like biopesticides. However, large-scale implementation of these alternatives faces challenges related to formulation and efficacy.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
24. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular Biology & Biophysics
Summary of PhD Program:
The Wieczorek Lab at the Institute of Molecular Biology & Biophysics at ETH Zurich investigates the physical principles underlying the self-assembly of complex intracellular structures from biomolecules. The group uses the microtubule cytoskeleton as a model system. We apply state-of-the-art methods in structural biology, in vitro biochemical reconstitutions, and single molecule biophysics to understand how diverse multi-microtubule assemblies form from a common tubulin “building block”. The results of our work are important for understanding the molecular basis of diseases such as cancer and neurodegeneration, which are often directly linked to defects in microtubule network assembly.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
25. Fully Funded PhD Position in nonlinear laser spectroscopy on novel types of ferroic order and domains
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project unites our internationally leading expertise in nonlinear laser spectroscopy and ferroic materials. Its aim is to explore novel manifestations of ferroic order (like advanced multiferroicity, altermagnetism, hidden states) with the use of class-IV laser systems. The properties of the domains these novel ferroics exhibit is of particular interest as this aspect is little studied and offers plenty of room for exciting physics and groundbreaking discoveries.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
26. Fully Funded PhD Position in Respiratory dysfunction – mechanisms and influence on performance and quality of life
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, you will design studies in which you will conduct both experimental investigations in the laboratory and telemonitored training. The aim of the studies is to improve the respiratory regulation and performance reduction of patients through specific training, as well as to better understand changes in respiratory muscle function that occur in intensive care patients using various interventions. You will work independently and in a team and will also take responsibility for the training of master’s students in the laboratory. You will present your results at meetings and conferences and publish them in international journals.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
27. Fully Funded PhD Position in Investigation of the effects of sporting activities in patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, you will conduct studies with ARVC patients in the ETH laboratory, analyze clinical data and lead a pilot training program. You will investigate the influence of different activities on heart function and molecular markers. The aim is to better understand the connection between physical activity and damage to the heart and to identify sports activities that minimize the risk. You will work independently and in a team and will also be responsible for training master’s students in the laboratory. You will present your results at meetings and conferences and publish them in international journals.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
28. Fully Funded PhD Position in On-Chip Separation of Proteins for Single-Cell Proteome Profiling
Summary of PhD Program:
The main objective of the ERC funded project is to pioneer research direction of in situ cell profiling by identification of proteins, their abundance and temporal distribution at a single-cell level using nanopore sensors. The approach is the first of its type that can potentially address important biology questions at single-cell level and with a much higher temporal and spatial sensitivity compared to other existing methods.
