21 PhD Degree-Fully Funded at University of Zurich, Switzerland
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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 “Developmental Psychology: Adulthood”
At the chair “Developmental Psychology: Adulthood” at the Psychological Institute of the University of Zurich, we are looking for a doctoral student to start as soon as possible.
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student Positions in Bioinorganic Chemistry
The research of the group of Prof. Dr. Eva Freisinger is focused on the investigation of metallothioneins from different organisms. MTs are rather small cysteine-rich proteins with the ability to coordinate a number of transition metal ions. The positions are standard full-time PhD positions, formally designated 60% based on the officially assigned salary class.
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student or Postdoc in neuroscience
We use signal-processing techniques and machine learning to develop biomarkers that can quickly and reliably detect epileptogenic brain tissue in intracranial EEG (iEEG) recordings of epilepsy patients. In particular, High-Frequency Oscillations (HFO) have been recently established as promising biomarkers to guide epilepsy surgery. The research group offers advanced, interdisciplinary PhD training and participation in cutting-edge clinical neuroscience and neuroinformatics research projects together with Prof. Giacomo Indiveri and Prof. Johannes Sarnthein. We have broad expertise in acquiring and analyzing human electrophysiology recordings (Boran et al. 2019 Science Advances, Dimakopoulos et al. 2021 Brain Communications, Sharifshazileh et al. 2021 Nature Communications)..
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral position (SNSF project MULTICAST) linguistics/syntax/pragmatics/Swiss German
The MULTICAST project “A MULTIdisCiplinary Approach to prediction and treatment of Suicidality” will be funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Sinergia) for four years from September 1st, 2022. Under the direction of Birgit Kleim (Psychological Institute UZH and Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich), Sebastian Olbrich (Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich), Katharina Schultebraucks (Data Science Institute, Columbia University) and Guido Seiler (German Seminar and LiZZ, UZH), the project is developing methods how the risk of suicidality in severely depressed patients can be better determined on the basis of linguistic and non-verbal markers.
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student position in Theoretical Chemistry
The PhD project will deal with development and application of novel, accurate approaches for spectroscopy and/ or study of functional compounds. Possible directions for the project are the development of novel spectroscopic tools by means of forefront dynamic methods or highly accurate (wavefunction-based) methods for complex systems such as catalysts in the framework of sustainable energy research. The project may be carried out in close collaboration with experimental or other computational groups.
The section of epidemiology is committed to advancing One Health through teaching and research. We are partner in a multi-national project “Decentralising and operationalising One Health platforms” in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The project is funded for three years by the Canadian International Research and Development Center (IDRC), and led by scientists in Guinea, DRC and Canada. The objectives are (1) to map the stakeholders of One Health, clarify their roles and responsibilities, endorse and coordinate their activities (2) analyse causes and consequences of emerging infectious diseases on gender and vulnerable groups (3) develop and reinforce surveillance, information and risk communication systems appropriate for the contexts and target audiences; and (4) reinforce multidisciplinary research mechanisms for emerging infectious diseases.
PhD position summary/title: PhD student or research assistant
We are a motivated and ambitious team of chairs engaged in research (constitutional law; administrative law; national and international climate protection law; international environmental law; comparative constitutional law) and teaching (constitutional law; administrative law; environmental law; climate protection law; comparative constitutional law).
PhD position summary/title: PhD student position in Mixed Reality Surgery Training
The PhD student will be responsible for developing novel surgical training approaches by combining state-of-the-art hardware (RGB-D cameras, optical tracking, and augmented reality devices) with mixed reality research. Computer Vision and Computer Assisted Surgery. The PhD candidate is expected to advance the state of the art in computer graphics, computer vision, and robotics, which should lead to new scientific contributions to the field of computer-assisted surgery and surgical training.
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Child Development
As part of your PhD, you will assemble and develop a set of questionnaires in adolescents with congenital heart disease to investigate psychological and physiological factors associated with the transition period from adolescence to adulthood of chronically ill patients. You will assess a large set of potential predictors and outcomes (such as quality of life, self-esteem, empowerment, resilience). One important biological marker will include aspects of sleep and activity. You will cooperate with a multi-professional team that includes patients and international researchers. They will help to shape and focus the reserach questions. You will be establishing a dabase, recruit patients and will establish an international cooperation for this project. You will analyze the aquired data, present them at hospital, national and international scientific meetings and at patients organisation meetings. You will be enrolled in the PhD program Clinical Science.
PhD position summary/title: PhD / post-doc (open rank)
The successful candidate will be assigned the subproject Justice and Skepticism: Cicero’s Roman Theory of Justice and the Carneadean Debate, which is linked to inflection point (i) and designed to examine Cicero’s notion of justice as elaborated in the Republic, the Laws and On Duties, as well as in some of his speeches. Research topics that shall be addressed include an accurate determination of the ways in which Cicero’s conception of justice differs from, and may be at odds with, the ones of his Greek predecessors; an account of the conspicuous legal, rather than ethical, nature that Ciceronian justice displays; and an assessment of the extent to which Cicero’s views on what constitutes a just commonwealth were shaped by his experience of the breakdown of political order during the ongoing crisis of the late Roman republic. At the end of the appointment, the successful candidate shall publish his research findings as a monograph, which may be submitted as a doctoral or postdoctoral thesis; in addition, she or he is expected to publish at least one peer-reviewed project-related journal article per year in a major international journal; further responsibilities involve the participation in the regular meetings of the research team as well as the attendance of research-related conferences in Zurich and abroad.
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position – Spatiotemporal drivers of metastasis
The group studies bone sarcoma and in particular Ewing sarcoma, the second most frequent bone tumor of childhood and adolescence. This cancer is characterized by a pathognomonic chromosomal translocation and few additional recurrent mutations. Among those, we identified STAG2 mutation as the most frequent one and highlighted its association with poor prognosis (Tirode et al., 2014, Cancer Discov). We recently showed how STAG2 mutation alters the generation of chromatin loops and conducts to increased invasive/metastatic properties of these mutated Ewing sarcoma cells (Surdez et al. 2021, Cancer Cell) and how STAG2 mutation favors the transformation of mesenchymal stem cells into Ewing sarcoma (Sole et al. 2021, Cancer Res).
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position – Spatiotemporal drivers of metastasis
The group studies bone sarcoma and in particular Ewing sarcoma, the second most frequent bone tumor of childhood and adolescence. This cancer is characterized by a pathognomonic chromosomal translocation and few additional recurrent mutations. Among those, we identified STAG2 mutation as the most frequent one and highlighted its association with poor prognosis (Tirode et al., 2014, Cancer Discov). We recently showed how STAG2 mutation alters the generation of chromatin loops and conducts to increased invasive/metastatic properties of these mutated Ewing sarcoma cells (Surdez et al. 2021, Cancer Cell) and how STAG2 mutation favors the transformation of mesenchymal stem cells into Ewing sarcoma (Sole et al. 2021, Cancer Res).
Accurate movement control is the result of a complex interplay between various muscle groups whose activity is controlled by different areas of the central nervous system (CNS). Besides the corticospinal system, the phylogenetically old reticulospinal system is a key motor system controlling different elementary movements including posture, locomotion and reaching across vertebrate species. In contrast to the corticospinal system, there is only sparse knowledge on the motor physiology of the functionally important reticulospinal system in humans.
PhD position summary/title: PhD student in applied evolutionary biology
We are seeking a PhD student to join us (Prof. Anna Lindholm and Dr. Andri Manser in a research project at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies assessing the potential of a naturally occurring selfish genetic element (called t haplotype) as a tool to control invasive mouse pests on islands where they harm endemic wildlife. The t haplotype is a supergene in house mice with two seemingly ideal characteristics for pest control. First, males that carry two copies of the gene (t/t homozygotes) are completely sterile. Second, males that carry only one copy of the t (+/t heterozygotes) pass the gene on to 95% of their offspring rather than the 50% expected under Mendelian inheritance (gene drive), allowing the genetic propagation of the sterile t in a population. Preliminary work suggests that sterile t releases could offer a powerful, versatile, and humane tool to eradicate target populations due to a lack of fertile males. The aim of the project is to assess the potential of the sterile t as a pest control tool from a wide range of methodological angles.
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Data-driven Marketing
How do influencers’ choices affect their long-term success on a digital platform? How to detect and target prospect early adopters of new products? How should a firm leverage customers’ behavioral traits and social network structure to promote the diffusion of a new product throughout a social network? These and related research questions will be the focus of the SNSF project that supports the position. The candidate will use quantitative methods (e.g., large-scale empirical data, experiments, and numeric simulations) to address them. The overall goal of the project is to understand the link between individual-level choices with the success of new products and their creators in social systems. The candidate’s research will not only advance theoretical understanding but also derive its implications for influencer marketing policies adopted by firms.
PhD position summary/title: Open PhD position in neurophysiology of lower urinary tract function
We are looking for a highly motivated and scientifically interested candidate to conduct clinical research joining neurophysiology and neuroimaging with neuro-urology in humans. This post is embedded in the research environment of the Department of Neuro-Urology and the Spinal Cord Injury Center, University of Zürich, and Balgrist University Hospital in Zürich, where you will be working in an interdisciplinary team of health care professionals, neuroscientists, physicists, biologists, human movement scientists, pharmacologists, and electrical engineers.
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position “Electrophysiology to Optimize Hearing in Cochlear Implant Recipients”
After cochlear implantation surgery, recipients currently have many follow-up appointments in the clinic during which the cochlear implant’s sound processing parameters are optimized. The project aims to develop and test a set of measurements to partially automate this process and transfer it to the home environment. The successful applicant will join the research group “Otology and Biomechanics of Hearing” at the University Hospital Zurich (https://www.otobm.uzh.ch/en.html) and will be enrolled in the doctoral program at the University of Zurich.The project is conducted in collaboration with the company Sonova.
PhD position summary/title: Ph.D. Student position: Investigations of catalytic RNAs by ensemble and single-molecule fluorescence
This project focuses on the visualization of the splicing process of a catalytic RNA that takes place during RNA maturation. Self-splicing introns are fascinating examples of functional RNAs where structure and function are inextricably linked. We investigate the complex RNA folding mechanism of a mitochondrial intron of baker’s yeast and monitor its self-cleavage reaction by various fluorescent techniques, e.g. in the ensemble and on a single-molecule level, applying single-molecule Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (smFRET). For this purpose, we are fluorescently labeling the RNA at various positions. In this way, we want to understand the complexity of structure and the requirements leading to a perfect ligation of the coding regions. For further reading: Steffen, et al., Nat Commun, 2020., Paudel, et al., PNAS, 2018.
PhD position summary/title: Two PhD-Positions in the SNSF Project “Time and Emotion in Medieval Japanese Literature”
The project undertakes a conceptual and discursive mapping of temporal sensations in medieval Japanese literature. Using a range of methodological approaches from narratology, cognitive linguistics, and historical semantics, different levels of literary constructed temporal sensations in representative literary genres of this period (late 12th to late 16th century) will be uncovered and scaled according to emotional lifeworlds, in order to shed light on the experience and aesthetic objectification of temporal sensations in medieval Japan.
The reproducibility of scientific findings is crucial for the credibility of empirical research. The objective of the Center for Reproducible Science is to train the next generation of researchers in good research practices, to develop novel methodology related to reproducibility and replicability, and to improve the quality of scientific investigation using meta-science. The CRS brings together methodologists from across University of Zurich (UZH), working in fields which typically do not communicate with each other intensively. This methodological think tank allows to overcome traditional barriers between fields, and aims to determine sound state-of-the-art solutions to scientific challenges.
PhD position summary/title: Research Assistant – PhD Student in Computer Science, Visualization, Data Science
The open position is for a research assistantship in a PhD program in computer science with a focus on interactive data visualization and visual analytics of weather prediction simulations to improve short range warning systems of high impact weather events. This project is specifically targeted at the interactive analysis and visualization of numerical high-resolution weather forecast models, covering aspects such as spatio-temporal uncertainty visualization, visual abstractions and uncertainty representations, ensemble visualization, as well as visual analysis of storm tracking and sensitivity of large dimensional systems. A central focus is on the uncertainty and sensitivity analysis in space and time, as well as interactive visual analytics techniques.
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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