ETH Zurich, Switzerland invites online Application for number of Fully Funded PhD Degree at various Departments. We are providing a list of Fully Funded PhD Programs available at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student in Data-Driven Policy Optimization for Transportation and Energy
Our energy and transportation systems are rapidly transforming in the fight against climate change. Policymakers need new tools to help balance the transition’s big-picture objectives with the systems’ impacts on people and communities.
This project will contribute new tools and insights for the optimal design of policies that affect electric vehicle (EV) charging and the electricity system. The PhD student will contribute to the development of exciting new methods that integrate machine learning with energy system optimization to make such policy optimization possible.
The analysis will include policies for EV adoption, EV charging infrastructure, and electricity pricing, considering both system-level impacts on cost and CO2 emissions and community-level impacts like improvements in air pollution.
Deadline : 12.09.2025
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD positions in global biodiversity policy and planning
Achieving global biodiversity targets will require not only sound ecological knowledge but also an understanding how political, institutional, and socioeconomic structures and dynamics shape conservation and restoration actions and outcomes. These PhD projects will address two complementary research areas critical to designing effective, durable, and just strategies for biodiversity action:
PhD Position 1 will focus on the political drivers of durable biodiversity policy. The project aims to understand how governance structures, policy stability, and geopolitical risk influence the implementation and persistence of biodiversity commitments. This work will involve the analysis of global political and environmental data and will include engagement with ongoing international biodiversity policy processes to connect empirical findings with current governance challenges.
PhD Position 2 will focus on strategic spatial planning for biodiversity under uncertainty, with particular attention to how conservation and restoration efforts can be integrated into landscapes also used for agriculture, forestry, and climate change mitigation. The research will develop and apply computational approaches to identify policy strategies that are politically feasible and compatible with changing land-use demands, while also considering the distributional impacts of conservation decisions and their implications for environmental justice.
Deadline : 21 August 2025
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral (PhD) Student Position in Monitoring and Control of 3D Printing
The main goal of your work is to develop new methods and toolboxes for advanced control of extrusion 3D printing processes. We will use advanced control methods in conjunction with digital twin technology to develop the next generation of additive manufacturing technologies. We are looking for motivated doctoral students to contribute to this effort.
The envisioned research will tackle the broad topic of “Process control and digital twin development for extrusion 3D printing”:
- Development and improvement of novel in-situ sensing techniques to be used in advanced process control methods.
- Learning-based and adaptive control methods for extrusion process control and precision printing.
- Digital twin-driven methods for online process monitoring, process validation, and prediction using modern AI tools.
Deadline : Open until filled
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Water Disinfection Chemistry
Applications are invited for a PhD position on Water Disinfection Chemistry in the Environmental Chemistry group at ETH Zurich. The project focuses on the recent discovery of chloronitramide, a disinfection byproduct formed during the decomposition of chloramines and will be supervised by Dr. Juliana Laszakovits in the group of Prof. Kristopher McNeill.
Chloronitramide was recently reported by our group to be a novel disinfection byproduct. It is formed through the autodecomposition of chloramine, a widely used drinking water disinfectant and was found in all tested chloraminated drinking water samples at levels between 1 and 180 ppb. There are no previous reports of chloronitramide and accordingly nothing is known about its toxicity or occurrence.
The overarching goals of this project are (1) to improve monitoring efforts by developing widely accessible analytical approaches to quantify chloronitramide and (2) to investigate the impact of common water quality parameters on chloronitramide formation mechanisms during drinking water treatment. The results of this work are expected to inform risk assessment and regulation of chloronitramide and to guide water treatment utilities in managing its formation.
Deadline : 18 August 2025
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD student position in fluid dynamics and optics for biomedical applications
We seek to appoint a PhD student to conduct experimental research to investigate laser-induced bubble-particle interactions for the permeabilization of the blood-brain barrier. You will be part of an exciting collaboration between two laboratories at ETHZ.
You will design your experimental setup by exploiting the state-of-the-art ultra-high-speed imaging, optical and acoustic facilities available in the lab at ETHZ. In addition to research, you will contribute to teaching and lab activities in the institute at ETH Zurich.
Deadline : 29 August 2025
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Scientific Assistant in the Optimization of Rail System Development Processes
The successful candidate will have the following responsibilities that are aligned with working towards the project’s vision:
- synthesize and effectively communicate the system development process relevant for SBB Cargo and compare it to the European system development
- identify process improvement opportunities for development of safety-critical rail systems.
- analyze the findings and propose hypotheses for potential process changes implementing digital support tools and conduct preliminarily assessments of these changes
The successful candidate for this position will be expected to work closely with another researcher and with the Development Systems Engineering team at SBB Cargo. Dependent on the interests of the applicant and the fitting financing opportunity, it is possible that this becomes a doctoral position.
Deadline : 31th of August 2025
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PHD Position in Planning Transport Systems under Uncertain Futures through Agent-Based Simulations and Reinforcement learning
This doctorate aims to advance the state-of-the-art of model-based planning support for transport and urban systems under uncertainty. The doctorate will develop new tools and methods that integrate large-scale agent-based modelling, surrogate modelling, scenario planning, and sequential decision analytics. The research conducted during the doctorate will improve the long-term planning of urban and transport systems in Switzerland in close collaboration with the Center for Sustainable Future Mobility (CSFM) and the Chair of Risk, Safety and Uncertainty Quantification at ETH Zürich. The main contributions of this research will be: 1) integrate both qualitative foresight scenario planning and quantitative scenario simulation workflows; 2) develop new spatially explicit surrogate models that enable the use of large-scale agent-based models for the simulation of a wide range of future scenarios, and 3) advance the use of sequential decision analytics (e.g., reinforcement learning or stochastic optimisation) for the identification of optimal adaptive plans.
The case study to be used in the research is the transport system of Switzerland, where detailed MATSim agent-based models exist at the regional (e.g., Zurich, Lausanne, Geneva) and national levels. Potential interventions to be evaluated include, but are not limited to, the expansion or repurposing of road, rail, and cycling infrastructure, mobility on-demand services, mobility hubs, and pricing schemes. The project will help tackle pressing questions such as how emerging transport modes, spatial development, and evolving travel behaviour might shape Switzerland’s mobility system by 2060. These methods will allow key actors in Switzerland to identify critical risks, uncover novel opportunities, and co-create strategies that remain effective under uncertain future conditions.
Deadline : 30th of August 2025
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Ph.D. position in atmospheric biogeochemical modeling
We are seeking a highly motivated and curious Ph.D. student to join the Inorganic Environmental Geochemistry group at ETH Zurich and Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, an interdisciplinary team of researchers studying biogeochemical cycles of trace elements across different environmental compartments. Our mission is to understand and predict environmental distributions of health-impacting trace elements to prevent health hazards, today and in the future. The position is offered in the framework of a recently funded SNSF project with the goal to improve our understanding of the atmospheric cycling of the essential micronutrient selenium (Se) by integrating measurements and a computational atmospheric Se model. Knowing the chemical forms (speciation) of Se in atmospheric wet and dry deposition fluxes is essential because it determines its fate in surface environments, i.e., its mobility, bioavailability for plant uptake and, ultimately, its health impact. This knowledge is key for developing sustainable management strategies to ensure adequate and safe levels of Se, in agricultural systems as well as in other ecosystems.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Ph.D. positions in ocean ecological/biogeochemical modeling
Ph.D. position 1:
The first of the two doctoral students will work primarily on the marine nitrogen cycle and how it is affected by extreme conditions. The focus will be on the production, consumption and outgassing of nitrous oxide (N2O), a very potent greenhouse gas. But we will be looking also at several other processes governing the marine nitrogen cycle, including N2-fixation, denitrification, and anammox, and how they respond to extremes associated with heat (marine heatwaves), low oxygen and/or high acidity. The work, involving models and observations, will start in the oxygen deficient waters of the eastern tropical Pacific, where a large portion of the marine N2O is emitted into the atmosphere, but we plan to extend this also to other regions of the world.
Ph.D. position 2:
The second doctoral student will work on the improvement of zooplankton processes in our models, focusing on their role in structuring the phytoplankton community and in governing the efficiency of the biological carbon pump. The student will further study food-web interactions and transfer of matter across trophic levels. An essential component will be the assessment of the model results with observations, as well the use of the models to design improved observational strategies. The work will focus on the Southern Ocean, but with an eye toward the application of this improved model across the global ocean.
Deadline : August 15, 2025
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Forest Ecology and Silviculture
You will conduct field research and analyses in beech forests in Switzerland to:
- Assess regeneration dynamics, vitality, and species composition in beech stands.
- Analyze the growth and biomass allocation of young beech trees before and after drought.
- Conduct physiological measurements to evaluate drought resilience and water-use strategies.
You will work closely with an interdisciplinary team at ETH Zürich and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL and engage with forestry practitioners, as well as federal and cantonal authorities. You will perform statistical analysis, present your results at conferences, and publish them in scientific journals and articles for practitioners. Finally, the doctoral candidate is expected to contribute to group responsibilities (e.g., teaching, outreach, lab activities) at ETH and WSL.
Deadline : August 15th, 2025
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Computational Genomics
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly-motivated candidate that takes over responsiblity to investigate long read sequencing data collected from large a large cattle pedigree. HiFi data will be available for 50 trios (mother, father, offspring). The incoming PhD student will be responsible to (a) map these reads against a recently built T2T assembly, and (b) create haplotype resolved assemblies for the offpspring animals. Both the read alignments and assemblies will be investigated to identify variants in the offspring that are not present in both parental genomes. This will allow us to investigate the rate at which different types of variants occur de novo. There is also a possibility to contribute to our ongoing effort to establish a comprehensive bovine pangenome.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Assisted Migration
The PhD candidate will work within a larger project involving scientists, policy makers from federal and cantonal administration, and practitioners from conservation and industry, with the overarching goal of establishing guidelines and launching an assisted migration programme for mountain plants in Switzerland that are threatened by climate change. The role of the PhD candidate will be to collect ecological data allowing an assessment of the reasons for rarity and ecological (niche, range) limits of threatened mountain plants, and use this knowledge to understand variation in the success of assisted migration projects. Their tasks will involve collection and statistical analysis of demographic monitoring data in natural populations, setting-up and running field transplant experiments, and ecological niche modelling of focal species. The PhD candidate will also have the opportunity to develop their own analyses within this broad theme. Finally, the PhD candidate is expected to contribute to group responsibilities (e.g. teaching, outreach, lab activities) within the department and university.
Deadline : 4th August, 2025
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Ph.D. positions – High-voltage insulation systems
Research Position 1:
The transition to electric mobility has triggered substantial research and development efforts for electric motors and power-electronics drives. The combined electrical, thermal, and environmental stress to the insulation system is unprecedented and the topic of this position. The successful candidate will work (mostly experimental) towards a detailed understanding of the electric strength and aging of compact motor insulation systems.
Research Position 2:
SF6 is today the most important gas for high-voltage switchgear. Its global warming potential is 23‘500 times higher than that of CO2 and world-wide efforts are underway to develop and optimize equipment with environmentally friendly gas mixtures. The successful candidate will research (mostly experimental) on the arcing behavior and current-interruption capabilities of novel non-SF6 gas mixtures.
Deadline : Open until filled
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Data-Driven Nonlinear Model Reduction
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.
Deadline : August 15, 2024
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD student in quantum metamaterials
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. The project will also involve developing numerical simulations for metasurfaces, implementation of designs to chip design and experimental verification of with linear, nonlinear and quantum optical experiments.
Deadline : Open until filled
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position – 3D Cell-Based Tissue Simulation Framework
We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to further develop this framework by:
- Implementing numerical solvers for reaction-diffusion systems
- Extending the biophysical capabilities of the existing C++ codebase
- Applying the framework to morphogenetic problems using real imaging data
- Conducting large-scale simulations on ETH’s HPC infrastructure
- Performing model calibration, parameter screening, and validation
- Comparing simulation outcomes with experimental data
Deadline : Open until filled
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Postdoctoral Researcher – 3D Cell-Based Tissue Simulation Framework
Understanding tissue development through experiments alone is challenging. Cell-based simulations are powerful tools to study how individual cells contribute to tissue structure and dynamics. The Iber group has developed SimuCell3D, an efficient and scalable 3D tissue simulation framework written in C++, that enables the simulation of tissues with up to 100,000 deformable cells—including extracellular matrix and cavities—within a single day [Runser, et al., 2024, Nat Comput Sci 4, 299–309 (2024); Tweetorial].
SimuCell3D represents a major advance in modeling tissue mechanics, cell polarization, and complex morphogenetic processes.
Deadline : Open until filled
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position: modeling fracture in soft materials
The successful candidate will develop numerical and theoretical models to investigate fracture in soft and slender bodies. She/he will explore how nonlinear elasticity, dissipation, and slender geometry interact to influence crack initiation and growth. Using in-house codes and high-performance computing resources, the candidate will simulate fracture processes and analyze the dissipative mechanisms to uncover the mechanisms driving failure. She/he will contribute to the development of predictive models that capture the complex interplay of length scales in soft materials. The candidate will work in close collaboration with experimental researchers within the project, providing modeling insights and helping to interpret experimental observations.
Deadline : Open until filled
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral Students in Production Management
We offer regular research associate positions with a competitive salary in accordance with ETH standards at ETH Zurich and with HSG standards at HSG. The candidates will be involved in teaching and supervision activities at their respective home institutions. The candidate should indicate their preference for the home institution.
There is flexibility concerning the starting date to accommodate the selected candidate’s availability. The average duration for a doctoral student at ITEM and POM is four years. The contract is limited.
Deadline : August 31, 2025
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About ETH Zurich, Switzerland- Official Website
ETH Zürich is a public research university in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. Founded by the Swiss Federal Government in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, the school focuses exclusively on science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Like its sister institution EPFL, it is part of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain, part of the Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research.
In the 2021 edition of QS World University Rankings, ETH Zurich was ranked 6th in the world, placing it as the second-best European university after the University of Oxford. In the 2020 QS World University Rankings by subject, it ranked 4th in the world for engineering and technology (2nd in Europe) and 1st for earth & marine science. Also, ETH was rated 8th in the world in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2020.
The university is an attractive destination for international students thanks to low tuition fees of 809 CHF per semester, PhD and graduate salaries that are amongst the world’s highest, and a world-class reputation in academia and industry. There are currently 22,200 students from over 120 countries, of which 4,180 are pursuing doctoral degrees.
As of November 2019, 21 Nobel laureates, 2 Fields Medalists, 2 Pritzker Prize winners, and 1 Turing Award winner have been affiliated with the Institute, including Albert Einstein. Other notable alumni include John von Neumann and Santiago Calatrava. It is a founding member of the IDEA League and the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) and a member of the CESAER network.
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