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 Nanoscale magnetism-defect interaction
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a PhD candidate at the Laboratory of Metal Physics and Technology (LMPT) to explore the relationship between the nanoscale microstructure and magnetic properties in materials and in particular Sm-Co permanent magnets. This research will contribute to a deeper understanding of fundamental metal properties and enable the design of next-generation magnetic materials. The goal is to optimize them for technological applications, including renewable energy systems and medical magnetic resonance imaging.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in modeling fracture in soft materials
Summary of PhD Program:
The Computational Mechanics of Building Materials in the Institute for Building Materials at ETH Zurich has an opening for a PhD student in modeling fracture in soft materials. 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
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3. 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
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biomedical Robotics in Hydrocephalus Research
Summary of PhD Program:
Hydrocephalus is a severe and common neurological disorder that occurs in many different forms from childhood to old age. Our research focuses primarily on normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) in elderly patients, which affects approximately 6% of people over the age of 80. The disorder presents with an enlargement of the brain ventricles, presumably due to a mismatch of secretion and resorption of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Patients exhibit symptoms such as mental impairment and gait disturbance.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Seed Pathogens and Masting
Summary of PhD Program:
The reproduction of many plants is characterized by mast seeding, where boom and bust seed production years are correlated amongst individuals within populations due to their common response to a climatic trigger. Masting is thought to have evolved to foil seed predators, whose populations shrink during non-mast years when overall seed availability is low and cannot grow their populations fast enough to consume all seeds during mast years, allowing some seeds to ‘escape’ consumption.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Peptide-Based Drug Discovery
Summary of PhD Program:
The four-year project is co-funded by Novo Nordisk and will be supervised by Prof. Nathalie Grob (ETHZ) in cooperation Novo Nordisk, offering a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of academia and industry, leveraging cutting-edge technology to make a real-world impact in peptide drug discovery. Short research visits (< 3 months) at the Novo Nordisk research site in Copenhagen and access to high-throughput instrumentation are planned throughout the project. It will be a great advantage for candidates to have prior experience in peptide synthesis, mammalian tissue culture, and mass spectrometry.
Application Deadline: 30. June 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in 3D Cell-Based Tissue Simulation Framework
Summary of PhD Program:
ETH Zurich is a world-leading university dedicated to advancing science and technology. The advertised position is based in the Computational Biology (CoBi) group led by Prof. Dagmar Iber, which uses advanced imaging and computational tools to develop data-driven, mechanistic models of biological systems. Located in Basel, the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE) provides a vibrant research environment at the interface of biology, engineering, and medicine, and is surrounded by leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in quantum metamaterials
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project aims to develop a solution-derived metal-oxides (typically barium titanate or lithium niobate), characterize its nonlinear optical properties and design metasurfaces to explore polycrystalline materials as quantum light sources. This will include exploring chemical synthesis routes for ternary metal-oxides and combining these with nanopatterning methods as direct soft nanoimprint lithography, but including also the standard nanofabrication cleanroom processes flows such as lithography, etching and electron microscopy.
Application Deadline: August 10th 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Data-Driven Nonlinear Model Reduction
Summary of PhD Program:
The objective of the position is to work within a Swiss-French consortium of academic institutions to solve challenging model reduction problems using SSM-reduction and compare this approach with other model reductin methods, such as dynamic mode decompostion (DMD) or neural network-based methods. The level of the targeted problems will require further mathematical and algorithmic developments over the current state of data-driven SSM reduction. The PhD position will be based either within the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering or the Department of Mathematics at ETH Zurich, dependinhg on the candidate’s background and preferences.
Application Deadline: August 15, 2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in computational neuroscience
Summary of PhD Program:
Language is a skill unique to humans among other animals. However, little is known about the neurophysiological processes that enable the construction of complex sentences. New electrodes now allow researchers to record many single neurons in humans during speech tasks, offering new possibilities for developing theoretical models that will help us better understand the neural dynamics underlying word and sentence formation.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in High-voltage insulation systems
Summary of PhD Program:
ETH Zurich is one of the world-leading universities for science and technology. At ETH Zurich, researchers experience a climate which inspires top performance. Situated in the heart of Europe, yet forging connections all over the world, ETH Zurich is pioneering effective solutions to the global challenges of today and tomorrow. The electric energy sector plays a pivotal role in limiting the man-made global warming and in supporting the urgent and ongoing transformation of our energy system.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in communication of earthquake early warnings and earthquake probabilities
Summary of PhD Program:
The SED is heavily involved in the development of an earthquake early warning app that is already in use in several countries. A pilot launch of this app is planned in Switzerland as part of the European project Transform² . You will oversee the further development of the app and investigate how different user groups use, perceive, and evaluate it. In the “OEF Switzerland” project, you will design and test communication formats that present earthquake probabilities in an understandable way and are perceived as helpful in the event of an incident.
