University of Basel, 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 University of Basel, Switzerland.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral position (100%) in Natural Product Biosynthesis & Bioengineering
Deadline : Open until filled
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Physiological Tree Ecology
The Physiological Plant Ecology group at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel in Switzerland invites applications for a four-year PhD position in physiological tree ecology within a project fully funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNFS). The project will be conducted in collaboration with researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL).
All tree species reach upper elevational and latitudinal distribution limits that are primarily caused by species-specific low temperature thresholds beyond which a given species cannot persist and reproduce sustainedly. A profound knowledge of these low temperature limits and their underlying biological mechanisms is necessary to establish mechanistic models for tree distribution and growth that will improve our predictions of tree species’ range-shifts as well as productivity changes within their current ranges with future climate warming. The cold limitation of tree growth may be driven by tree hydraulic constraints induced by restricted root water uptake at low soil temperatures. However, our current knowledge about the significance of soil temperatures for productivity and distribution of temperate trees is very limited, and cold soil effects are still not well represented in current tree hydraulic models. In this project, we will apply an innovative combination of experimental studies with tree seedlings and observational field records on mature trees to assess the physiological impact and ecological significance of low root temperatures for the hydraulic relations and growth of common European temperate tree species.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: 1-year fellowship in Shoebill Conservation Genetics with support for a further 3-year PhD fellowship
The shoebill is an iconic bird species endemic to central eastern Africa, with the southernmost breeding population remaining in Zambia. Despite its large distribution area, the bird is rare, but precise numbers are lacking. The research will use molecular genetic tools to analyze the number of individuals in the Bangweulu Wetlands, their genetic isolation, and how genetically distinct shoebill populations across Africa generally are.
In the fully-funded first year, you will become acquainted to African Parks’ conservation efforts for the shoebill in Bangweulu Wetlands (July to August 2026) and then work as a guest student and intern at the University of Basel, Switzerland (September to December 2026) where you will attend courses in relevant fields (bioinformatics, population genetics) and work in the lab. In parallel, you would write a PhD fellowship application to the Swiss Government Excellence Fellowship with support from African Parks, University of Basel, Copperbelt University and University of Zambia.
Practical work involves visits to remote Shoebill nests and help at the conservation facility in Bangweulu Wetlands, wet lab work, bioinformatics, population genetic analysis, and proposal writing.
Deadline : May 15, 2026
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position, SNSF project Modern Painting and the Lesbian Gaze
In analyses of artworks from the first half of the twentieth century, feminist art history has largely overlooked non-heterosexual sexuality and desire, while queer art history has primarily focused on the works of gay men. Against this background, the project proposes the notion of the ‘lesbian gaze’ as a methodological provocation to decentre the male and heterosexual gaze as dominant frameworks for interpreting modern painting.
The project brings together feminist and queer approaches to reposition the practices of women painters within queer art history. It adopts an intersectional framework that foregrounds the significance of class for queer lives, as well as for conditions of artistic production, thematic concerns and the circulation of artworks. Grounded in rigorous art-historical analysis, the project focuses on painting – a medium with a long tradition of gendered hierarchies that has therefore been critically reassessed by feminist scholars – to demonstrate how queer women artists negotiated, subverted or reappropriated its conventions.
The project employs the term ‘women’ not as a fixed, biologically determined category, but in a way that is mindful of a spectrum of gender experiences, some of which may not have been publicly articulated in the first half of the twentieth century. The umbrella term ‘queer women’ refers to people who transgressed dominant heteronormative frameworks and lived – or contemplated – non-normative sexualities and gender identities at that time.
Case studies, conducted by the project leader and two doctoral researchers, will be accompanied by a range of scholarly activities designed to reflect on questions of terminology and to advance methodological approaches. These include an ongoing reading group, two international workshops, and an open-access co-edited volume.
The project leader focuses on Irène Zurkinden and Leonor Fini, while one doctoral researcher (already appointed) examines the work of Émilie Charmy. We invite applications for a second doctoral position to investigate one or several further queer women painters working in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Possible case studies for this dissertation project include, but are not limited to: Jeanne Mammen, Gertrude Sandmann, Lotte Laserstein, Anita Clara Rée, Gluck, Gwen John, Patricia Preece and Dorothy Hepworth, Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä, Gerda Wegener and Lili Elbe, and Jeanna Bauck and Bertha Wegmann.
Deadline : Open until filled
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Computational Biology (100%)
We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join our interdisciplinary research team. You will have the opportunity to apply cutting-edge quantitative methods and modeling approaches to diverse datasets with longitudinal multi-omics data from both local and international collaborations. You will be part of a collaborative research environment with close interactions with the Basel Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH), the University Children’s Hospital Basel (UKBB), and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH).
A strong interest in applying mathematical modelling to biological questions and excellent teamwork and communication skills in English are required. The PhD candidate will be expected to take an active role in shaping the project within an environment that encourages academic freedom and scientific independence.
In line with our and Uni Basel values (https://www.unibas.ch/en/Research/Values-Ethics/Diversity-and-Inclusion.html), we are committed to sustain and promote an inclusive culture, ensure equal opportunities and value diversity and respect in our working and learning environment.
Depending on your interests and background, your main tasks will include:
- Analyzing and integrating longitudinal multi-omics data from pediatric cohorts
- Developing and parameterizing mechanistic mathematical models
- Applying statistical modeling, causal inference, and machine learning approaches
- Collaborating with experimental and clinical research partners
- Support and preparation of scientific reports and journal articles
Deadline : Open until filled
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in the field of Reasoning in Machine Learning (Prof. I. Bogunovic and A. Lucchi)
The research groups of Prof. I. Bogunovic and Prof. A. Lucchi at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Basel are inviting applications for a PhD position focused on the foundations and applications of reasoning with large language models (LLMs), including emerging diffusion-based LLM architectures. The successful candidate will investigate both theoretical aspects – such as understanding the mechanisms and limitations of reasoning in modern LLMs – and practical applications, including solving mathematical reasoning problems. The ideal candidate has a strong background in machine learning and an interest in bridging rigorous theoretical insights with challenging real-world tasks. They will also explore reinforcement learning strategies to optimize decision-making policies in complex environments, and develop fine-tuning protocols for large pre-trained models to adapt them to specialized reasoning domains as well as to address a generalization gap in LLM reasoning and their adaptation across reasoning domains. This work will blend cutting-edge experimentation – spanning RL, few-shot learning, meta-learning, etc. – with formal analysis to push the boundaries of what modern AI systems can reliably reason about.
Deadline : Open until filled
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position (4 years) on oxo clusters building blocks for MOFs
Deadline : 30.04.2026
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: 2 PhD positions in Quaternary Palaeoecology / chironomid-based climate reconstruction
The Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel invites applications for two PhD positions in the research group Geoecology. Where have warm-adapted ecosystems and organisms survived unfavorable conditions in the past? What were the environments that characterized such refugial areas during the Quaternary Ice Ages? How and with which dynamics did warm-adapted organisms expand from these areas under warming climate after the ice ages? These are central questions for both Biogeography and Quaternary Palaeoecology, and the answers provide the basis for predictions of ecosystem and species response to future climatic change.
We are looking for PhD candidates that will work towards resolving these research questions in the interdisciplinary SNF research project ECO-ICE. The project will collect, analyse and interpret new lake sediment records from key refugial localities covering the Last Glacial Maximum. This will allow a revised assessment of the survival of temperate tree populations in Europe and their response to major climatic variations during and after the last ice age. The successful candidates will develop high-resolution palaeoecological records of aquatic invertebrate assemblage change, particularly focusing on the remains of chironomid (non-biting midge) larvae. Based on these sensitive temperature indicators, they will develop quantitative reconstructions of glacial temperatures using multivariate statistical methods, results that will be compared with other, independent temperature reconstructions, high-resolution palaeobotanical records, and vegetation modelling scenarios developed by project partners. This research will be essential for developing new palaeoclimate scenarios for ice age Europe, for understanding ice age ecosystems, and for reassessing the ice age refugia and postglacial expansion of temperate trees in Europe.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Organic Geochemistry and Paleolimnology
The Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel invites applications for two PhD positions in the field of organic geochemistry and paleolimnology (https://duw.unibas.ch/en/research-groups/organic-geochemistry/ ). The students will be part of the SNSF-project ECO-ICE, which will reconstruct past climatic and ecologic changes at ice age refugia for temperate trees. The larger project is co-hosted by the Universities of Basel and Bern, and involves a team of four principal investigators, eight PhD students, and two postdoctoral researchers.
Deadline : 21 April, 2026
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in Biomedical Ethics
The Institute for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Basel (IBMB), Switzerland (https://ibmb.unibas.ch/), is currently looking for a dynamic and independent graduate student (Master’s degree) who is interested in carrying out their PhD work in biomedical ethics or bioethics.
This call is for an “open-track” project, where the applicant can choose his or her doctoral thesis topic. At the same time, we also encourage candidates to consider proposing a project within the following research lines that the institute has been pursuing: moral issues with new technological developments in Medically Assisted Reproduction; the ethics of digitalizing healthcare; experimental bioethics. The student will be chosen based on the qualifications below as well as on how the specific topic chosen for the PhD fits the research profile (either in terms of content or methodological approach) of the IBMB.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: 1 «bourse de démarrage» du programme doctoral des Sciences de l’Antiquité de l’Université de Bâle
Les bourses doivent servir à soutenir les doctorants et doctorantes durant la phase de début de thèse. Dans les premiers six mois les boursiers et boursières doivent déposer une demande de subvention auprès du Fonds National de Recherche Suisse ou d’une autre institution de financement de la recherche.
Deadline : 19.04.2026
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: One start-up scholarship (for 1 year) within the Department of Ancient Civilizations at the University of Basel
Deadline : 19.04.2026
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: 1 Startstipendium des Doktoratsprogramms Altertumswissenschaften der Universität Basel
Deadline : 19.04.2026
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The University of Basel is a university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland’s oldest university and among the world’s oldest surviving universities. The university is traditionally counted among the leading institutions of higher learning in the country
The associated Basel University Library is the largest and among the most important libraries in the country. The university hosts the faculties of theology, law, medicine, humanities and social sciences, science, psychology, and business and economics, as well as numerous cross-disciplinary subjects and institutes, such as the Biozentrum for biomedical research and the Institute for European Global Studies. In 2020, the University had 13,139 students and 378 professors. International students accounted for 27 percent of the student body.
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