Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Zurich, 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 epidemiology and biostatistics
Summary of PhD Program:
In the CliMaH project, we aim to integrate satellite and climate data with a mixed-methods on the ground study to better understand how long-term population movement, trends in urbanization, changes in agricultural productivity, and demographic change link with climate change and health in Mozambique. In particular, we are looking for a PhD candidate to work in WP1 of the CliMaH project, which aims to use remote sensing data (e.g., satellite data) to characterize changes in land use and agriculture in Mozambique.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in epidemiology
Summary of PhD Program:
We offer this PhD position in the context of a project funded by the Ukrainian-Swiss Joint Research Programme (USJRP) of the Swiss National Science Foundation (“A Learning Health System for innovative, community-based mental health care delivery in Ukraine: An international, multi-stakeholder effort”). The ongoing war in Ukraine will affect the mental health of Ukrainian citizens for decades. A broad effort from public mental health to individual social and health care is urgently needed in Ukraine to address mental health conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD), anxiety, depression, and substance use disorder (in particular alcohol).
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in educational science
Summary of PhD Program:
The project “Integrating Religious, Moral and Digital Literacy Education in Schools”, which will run from January 1, 2025, addresses the question of how students can be sensitized to religious and moral issues in the context of digital media. In particular, the aim is to investigate how prior knowledge and media education interact in the use of generative artificial intelligence. The URPP “Digital Religion(s)” offers you a varied job in a forward-looking and interdisciplinary research focus of high relevance.
Application Deadline: October 15, 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in optogenetic tools
Summary of PhD Program:
The Patriarchi laboratory is looking for a highly motivated and collaborative PhD student to work on an exciting protein engineering project related to the development of new optogenetic tools to investigate G protein-coupled receptor signaling in living animals.
Your responsibilities: Conduct and plan laboratory research in a protein engineering project involving techniques from molecular biology, cell culture, imaging and fluorescent activated cell sorting experiments.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Management and Law
Summary of PhD Program:
Your responsibilities
- The position is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
- Enroll in the Finance Doctoral Program at the University of Zurich.
- Work towards a dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Per Östberg.
- Design and execute data collection using web-crawling and PDF extraction from regulatory disclosure reports.
- Conduct data analysis using econometric models and quasi-natural experiments.
- Perform comprehensive literature reviews and engage in ongoing research activities.
- Participate in scientific dissemination, including writing for publications and presenting at conferences and workshops.
Application Deadline: October 19, 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in religious studies
Summary of PhD Program:
The project “Exploring the Digital in Conspiracy Theories with Religious Elements” (project management: Dorothea Lüddeckens and Mira Menzfeld), which belongs to this cluster, deals with the question: How are conspiracy theories (non-)digitally created and perpetuated – and what effects do they have on the lives and actions of those who adhere to them? For this project, we are looking for a doctoral student who, on the basis of online and offline field research, will answer the above question using an example for a case of their own choosing. A doctoral project that, in addition to being focused on the project topic, is also characterized by a reference to Islam is desirable, but not mandatory.
Application Deadline: October 31, 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Religious Studies
Summary of PhD Program:
As part of the strategic focus of the University of Zurich, the interdisciplinary University Research Priority Program (URPP) “Digital Religion(s)” investigates from 2021 to 2032 how current digitalization dynamics influence, shape, and transform religious practices in various social contexts. The research specifically examines how individual and institutional actors communicate religiously in hybrid online-offline formats and assert their public claim to societal orientation. The cluster “Conspiracy Theories in Online Environments and Their Religious Connotations”, starting on January 1 2025, as one of four sub-areas of the URPP, addresses the impact of digitalization on the dynamics of conspiracy theory communication in digital spaces, as well as the relationship between religion, digitality, and conspiracy theories from religious studies, linguistic, and ethical perspectives.
Application Deadline: October 31, 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in input features in first language acquisition: An Evolutionary perspective
Summary of PhD Program:
The NCCR is a Swiss National Center of Competence in Research with the goal of creating a new discipline, Evolutionary Language Science, that targets the past and future of language. The center consists of leading scientists from traditionally separated academic domains, which allows us to harvest the diverse expertise from the humanities, social sciences, computational sciences, natural sciences and medicine towards a broadscale interdisciplinary collaboration.
Application Deadline: October 1, 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Global Mapping of Antimicrobial Resistance in Animals and Access to Veterinary Services
Summary of PhD Program:
The Epidemiology and Geography Group at the One Health Institute, University of Zurich, is looking for a PhD candidate interested in developing geospatial models to map antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in animals as well as accessibility to veterinary services worldwide. The position is for four years. The One Health Institute (OHI) is an interfaculty institute founded jointly by the Vetsuisse Faculty, the Faculty of Medicine, and the Faculty of Science at the University of Zurich. The Epidemiology and Geography group focuses on assembling large databases and developing methods to map infectious diseases. Our primary interest is on mapping antimicrobial resistance in low- and middle-income countries.
Application Deadline: October 15th 2024
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Theological Ethics
Summary of PhD Program:
As part of the strategic orientation of the University of Zurich, the interdisciplinary University Research Priority Program (URPP) “Digital Religion(s)” will investigate how current digitalization dynamics influence, shape and transform religious practice in different social contexts in the period 2021-2032. In more detail, it will examine how individual and institutional actors communicate religiously in hybrid online-offline formats and assert their public claim to social orientation.
Application Deadline: October 20, 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Theological Ethics
Summary of PhD Program:
The research cluster “Conspiracy Theories in Online Environments and Their Religious Connotations,” will commence on Jan 1st 2025 as one of four subareas of the URPP. It deals with the influence of digitalization on the dynamics of conspiracy-theoretical communication in digital spaces and with the relationship between digitality, religion, and conspiracy theories, drawing on the perspectives of the study of religion, linguistics, and ethics.
Application Deadline: Oct 20th 2024
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
The project aims to analyse the known Homo erectus skeletons using advanced virtual imaging techniques and modern reference samples to explore aspects such as evolutionary changes in body proportions and growth trajectories, skeletal development, pathology, and biomechanical adaptations in response to bipedalism. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to collect data abroad and present their findings at international conferences, as well as to collaborate in other projects of the group. In addition, they will assist in teaching as well as in training and mentoring of students.
Application Deadline: September 30, 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computational Approaches to Affect in Social Decision Making
Summary of PhD Program:
The Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research (Group Leaders: E. Fehr, T. Hare, C. Ruff, P. Tobler) is a research center at the University of Zurich that investigates the principles underlying social and neuronal systems (Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research (SNS Lab)). The lab brings together scientists from the social and natural sciences (incl. neuroscience, economics, psychology, computer science, and physics) to study mechanistic links between neuronal circuits, human behavior and social interactions, using a combination of brain imaging methods, neuro-modulation techniques (brain stimulation and neuropharmacology), behavioral experiments and computational approaches. A single custom-built unit hosts multiple state-of-the-art facilities that are fully dedicated to research.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Population Genomics and Linguistic Evolution
Summary of PhD Program:
The NCCR Evolving Language (www.evolvinglanguage.ch) invites applications for a PhD student in population genomics and linguistic evolution to study human language diversification from the viewpoints of the spread of humans and cultural (archaeological and ethnographical traits) at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zurich.
