University of 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 University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral Position (Dr. med. vet. programme) Institute of Veterinary Anatomy, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich 100 %
The Group of Reproductive Biology of the Institute of Veterinary Anatomy, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich www.vetanat.uzh.ch is looking for a candidate for a doctoral position in the field of comparative reproductive endocrinology.
Highly motivated graduate students with vet-med degree, interested in reproductive endocrinology, are welcomed to apply for this position.
The SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation)-funded project investigates the molecular mechanisms of hypoxia and HIF1α signaling in steroidogenic cells, with a focus on granulosa and Leydig cells.
Steroidogenesis is a tightly regulated process essential for reproductive function, and its dysregulation contributes to a range of clinical conditions affecting gonad activity. Hypoxia and HIF1α-mediated pathways have recently emerged as integral components of the signaling networks regulating steroid hormone production. Novel regulatory mechanisms described in our research group emphasize the need for further investigations into the complex role of hypoxic signaling in the steroidogenic process (for more details see: https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/kchZFSdzPhqHX1g).
The acquired knowledge could potentially refine current models of physiological steroidogenesis and identify molecular mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of steroid hormone-related clinical/pathological conditions.
The opportunity to perform doctoral/PhD work, training in molecular- and cell-biology methods, dedicated international team and support of experienced young scientists, pleasant working environment in Zurich.
Deadline : Open until filled
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD student 80%
Through close collaboration with doctoral candidates, we offer training in gastroenterology and internal medicine with excellent development opportunities. Doctoral candidates are guided in conducting high-quality scientific studies, supported in analyzing and interpreting their data, and presented and published their findings at international conferences. Doctoral candidates are integrated into a dedicated and open-minded team that works closely with specialists from various other disciplines.
The Small Animal Clinic at the University of Zurich is a state-of-the-art clinic where a large number of internationally recognized specialists work. Further information can be found on the website: https://www.kltmed.uzh.ch/de.html
The position is available immediately and lasts for 24 months. Despite the high cost of living in Switzerland, the remuneration is very high and attractive by international standards. The salary is based on the SNSF’s (Swiss National Science Foundation) approach.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Positions (2) in Evolutionary Phonological Typology 80 %
For both PhD positions, strong technical skills are expected, along with experience with one or more probabilistic programming languages. Knowledge of Bayesian phylogenetic methods (or willingness to acquire it) is highly desirable. Ideally, both candidates have a background in phonetics, phonology, and/or historical linguistics.
We greatly value team science, and you are expected to have excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Deadline : Open until filled
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral Student in Instructional Psychology 80 %
At the Chair of Educational Technology (Institute of Education at the University of Zurich), the position of a doctoral student is to be filled by 01.07.2026 at the earliest or by arrangement.
The Chair of Educational Technology researches issues relating to the development of teaching and learning scenarios with digital media or in digital environments. Quantitative experiments are used to analyze the design possibilities of digital learning media-in relation to the promotion of cognitive, emotional, motivational and social processes-in the learning process. The aim of the doctoral student position is the development, implementation, evaluation and publication of studies, as well as the development-oriented supervision of students (Bachelor) at the professorship.
Deadline : Open until filled
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD student in Educational Psychology (80%)
The Chair of Educational Technology focuses on research into the development of teaching and learning scenarios using digital media or in digital environments. Quantitative experiments are used to analyze the design possibilities of digital learning media with regard to promoting cognitive, emotional, motivational, and social processes within the learning process. The PhD position involves the development, implementation, evaluation, and publication of studies, as well as the developmental supervision of undergraduate students at the Chair.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD student in Geocomputation 80%
The dissertation project will investigate mobility in the city of Zurich, with a particular focus on cycling. It will be conducted in cooperation with the City of Zurich and aims to analyze the interplay of infrastructure, cycling culture, inclusion, usage purposes, and changes in mobility patterns in Zurich. A consideration of the various user and stakeholder groups will also be included. The project will develop indicators that describe, for example, subjective safety, spatial variation in the use of the cycling network, and the mobility culture in the city of Zurich. These indicators will enable authorities and political decision-makers to plan effective strategies and interventions.
The project is associated with the Public Data Lab , an interdisciplinary project that aims to develop indicators that capture social, environmental, and economic change in the Canton of Zurich.
We are looking for a person who has recently completed a Master’s degree in Geography or Geographical Information Science and is excited by the opportunity to develop a theoretically sound, socially relevant approach that expands access to geographical information and enables decision-makers to better consider disadvantages in policy and planning.
Deadline : Open until filled
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in neuroimaging: functional MRI in the spinal cord 100 %
We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate to join the Neuroimaging Group at the Spinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital (Zurich, Switzerland). The position is fully funded by a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) grant entitled: “High-Resolution Imaging of Spinal Cord Function After Injury: Advancing Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment Monitoring”.
The PhD project will be supervised by Dr. Gergely David and Prof. Dr. Patrick Freund. The Neuroimaging Group is a multidisciplinary team of neuroscientists, clinicians, physicists, engineers, and biologists, with access to state-of-the-art MRI infrastructure, including a 3T Siemens Prisma and 7T Siemens TerraX scanner.
Deadline : Open until filled
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student Position in Experimental Physical Chemistry and Catalysis 80 %
We are seeking an outstanding candidate for a PhD student position in experimental physical chemistry and catalysis to work with Bogdan Dereka on our newly funded ERC research project EFFICACY: Electric Field Effects in Chemistry and Catalysis. Combining beyond-state-of-the-art laser spectroscopy, organic and inorganic synthesis, catalysis and electrochemistry, we work on elucidating the role that microscopic electric fields play in chemistry.
We will be building out a new ultrafast spectroscopy lab based on a new laser technology, as well as benefiting from the established infrastructure combining multiple established laser techniques at the University of Zurich. Our other state-of-the-art infrastructure in a brand-new world-class research building includes synthetic capabilities (including Schlenk lines, gloveboxes etc.) and modern characterization facilities.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: MD-PhD Position (m/f) 100%
The Department of Pneumology at the University Children’s Hospital Zurich is advertising an MD/PhD position for the innovative project Exhalomics in Pediatric Asthma (EXPEDA). The project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and will be conducted at the Children’s Hospital Zurich.
Deadline : Open until filled
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in ‘Neuroscience of Motivation in Neurorehabilitation’ 80 %
We seek to elucidate the neuronal mechanisms of motivation. This project aims to develop a biofeedback procedure to induce motivation for cognitive and motor effort in healthy and stroke subjects. To this end, we will record the neuronal activation of motivation and effort electrophysiologically, using high-density EEG. The corresponding autonomous response will be assessed with cardiological parameters.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in Network Science: Modeling of Animal Networks 80 %
We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join our Quantitative Network Science research group at the Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning at the University of Zurich.
Wild populations are increasingly exposed to demographic decline and fragmentation, making inbreeding and its consequences a central problem in evolutionary biology and conservation. We address this using one of the most comprehensive datasets available for any vertebrate population: a long-term field study in Switzerland of more than 20,000 wild mice that vary naturally in degree of inbreeding. This project investigates inbreeding avoidance in wild house mice using a novel multilayer temporal network modeling framework that integrates behavioral, genetic, and social co-nesting data, and aims to develop new statistical and computational tools applicable well beyond the study system. The PhD project is embedded in a collaborative framework with network scientists and evolutionary biologists at the University of Zurich and at Columbia University.
You will be embedded in an active and collaborative research group with access to a unique long-term dataset and outstanding scientific support. You will benefit from close collaboration with leading groups in biology, network science and genomics. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful working environment.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: MNF/Open PhD position Branching spirals in deep time: Ammonoid phylogeny and macroecology 80 %
Deadline : Open until filled
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Redox Chemical Biology 80 %
Deadline : Open until filled
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral (PhD) position 80 %
The chair of Individual Differences and Assessment (headed by Prof. Dr. Wiebke Bleidorn) focuses on measuring, explaining, and predicting the structures and processes of personality that underlie human experience and behavior. As part of a research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (PI: Dr. Michael Krämer; duration: 4 years), we will investigate solitude as a psychological experience. In several subprojects, we will analyze relationships between solitude and personal and contextual factors to develop an integrative theory of the circumstances under which people experience solitude as positive or negative. A central goal is to gain a better understanding of the regulatory processes underlying the desire for solitude and solitude behavior. To this end, we will collect ambulatory assessment data and integrate existing data sets.
Deadline : Open until filled
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD student: 80%
The Chair of Differential Psychology and Diagnostics (Head: Prof. Dr. Wiebke Bleidorn) focuses on the measurement, explanation, and prediction of fundamental personality structures and processes that shape human experience and behavior. Within the framework of a research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), solitude is being investigated as a psychological experience (PI: Dr. Michael Krämer; duration: 4 years). Several sub-projects analyze the relationships between personal and contextual factors and solitude in order to develop an integrative theory about the circumstances under which people experience solitude as positive or negative. A central goal is to gain a better understanding of the regulatory processes underlying the need for solitude and actual behavior. To this end, ambulatory assessment data are being collected and existing data are being integrated.
Deadline : Open until filled
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Hydrology 80 %
The appointees will conduct research in the international and interdisciplinary ‘SSF Fast and invisible: Conquering Subsurface Stormflow through an Interdisciplinary Multi-site Approach’ Research Unit.
One of the PhD positions at the University of Zurich will focus on the spatial and temporal variation in shallow groundwater levels across the study catchments, how these variations depend on soil and landscape characteristics, and how these data can be used in the calibration of hydrological models.
The other PhD position at the University of Zurich will focus on the interception of SSF by roads and tile drains and how this is then quickly routed to the streams. These new measurements of SSF interception will be compared with the responses at the trenches and model simulations.
Deadline : Open until filled
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in plant-insect coadaptation 100 %
Deadline : Open until filled
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD positions (2x) for ‘OFFGRID: Energy Futures in Southeast Asia’ 100 %
OFFGRID investigates how small-scale, off-grid energy system shape emerging energy futures in the global South. Adopting a multi-sited research design across urban and rural contexts in Indonesia and Vietnam, the project takes a comparative approach to understanding energy transitions beyond purely technical dimensions. It examines how decentralised solar infrastructures reconfigure everyday practices, labour arrangements, and power relations among state actors, private sector stakeholders, civil society organisations, and local communities across diverse socio-spatial settings.
Deadline : Open until filled
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Open PhD position in computational chemistry 80 %
The candidate must hold an excellent Master’s degree in chemistry, interdisciplinary natural sciences, physics, or related, and have profound English and autonomous learning ability skills. The successful candidate will be highly creative, ambitious, and motivated. Strong programming skills and experience in electronic structure theory / (ab initio) molecular dynamics / catalysis / machine learning are highly desirable.
We offer a vibrant, inspiring environment in a brand-new building with cutting-edge resources and research, access to world-leading supercomputers, and high-profile interdisciplinary collaborations. Funding for the participation at summer schools, conferences etc. is also available.
Deadline : Open until filled
(20) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral Position in Strategic Communication (Research and Teaching Assistant) 60 %
The Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ) with around 80 employees, is one of the largest and most successful communication science institutes in Europe, providing excellent infrastructure for research and teaching, an inspiring academic environment, and excellent employment conditions. The University of Zurich also offers numerous opportunities for further education and diverse interdisciplinary cooperation possibilities.
The research group “Strategic Communication & Media Management” (Prof. Dr. Nadine Strauß) at IKMZ is seeking to fill a doctoral position.
The position is for 3 years, with a possible extension of 1-3 years.
Deadline : Open until filled
(21) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: International Fully Funded PhD Positions in the Life Sciences 80 – 100 %
We aim to attract to Zurich the most promising young scientists from across the world. We offer you a challenging training environment, a clear mentoring system and the opportunity to perform cutting-edge research. As a PhD student, you’ll become part of a vibrant scientific and social community, collaborating with leading experts in your field and contributing to impactful discoveries.
Deadline : Open until filled
(22) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: One Doctoral Position embedded in an SNF-Project 80 %
Candidates should ideally come with a background in law, health policy and/or in the social sciences (Master’s degree), but with a particular interest in policymaking in health. Also profiles in neighbouring disciplines (e.g. Science and Technology Studies, Public Health) may be considered, as long as you demonstrate your interest in this specific topic and in the interdisciplinary research approach of this position. The willingness to pursue a PhD in law (or Biomedical Ethics and Law) is essential.
Ideally, applicants already have some experience with either legal analysis (reading and understanding legal and policy sources, systematising their content etc.) and/or empirical work (especially conducting interviews).
Although the research team is international, and the outputs of research can be in English, the knowledge of an official language of Switzerland (German, French or Italian) is highly desirable, since the doctoral researcher’s work (both policy and empirical) should consider especially the Swiss context.
Other important skills are the capacity to work in a team, to organise your own work, and to possess an interest in scientific writing. The workplace of the PhD candidate will be in Zurich, but there is flexibility in terms of organising the presence at the office.
Deadline : Open until filled
(23) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student Position in Ultrafast Vibrational Spectroscopy of CO2 Reduction Catalysts 80 %
A PhD position is available at the Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland. The general topic of the group’s work is the structure and dynamics of complex molecular systems, investigated by ultrafast vibrational spectroscopic techniques such as transient-IR spectroscopy, 2D IR spectroscopy or 2D Raman-THz spectroscopy. A recent technological advancement extends the accessible time scales from picoseconds to seconds, enabling us to study the course of chemical reactions from their very beginning to their final outcome. Spectroscopic applications of our techniques cover a wide spectrum of chemical sciences, ranging from artificial photosynthesis to the dynamics of allosteric proteins. In the particular PhD project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, you will elucidate the complex reaction cycles of molecular CO2 reduction catalyst in homogeneous solution, as well as those of catalytic surfaces, by (mostly) time-resolved IR spectroscopy.
Deadline : Open until filled
(24) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in cognitive neuroscience for 4 years 100 %
Successful candidates should be highly motivated and have a strong background in cognitive psychology. Ideally, the candidate should hold a master’s degree in experimental psychology or cognitive psychology.
knowledge of Electroencephalography (EEG) will be an advantage. The candidate should show excellent interpersonal skills and be able to work both independently and in groups. The candidate should also have excellent knowledge of English and written and spoken German.
Deadline : Open until filled
About The University of Zurich, Switzerland – Official Website
The University of Zurich (UZH, German: Universität Zürich), located in the city of Zürich, is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833from the existing colleges of theology, law, medicine which go back to 1525, and a new faculty of philosophy.
Currently, the university has seven faculties: Philosophy, Human Medicine, Economic Sciences, Law, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Engineering, Computer Sciences and Robotics, Theology and Veterinary Medicine. The university offers the widest range of subjects and courses of any Swiss higher education institution.
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