25 Postdoctoral Fellowship at ETH Zurich, Switzerland

We are seeking a postdoc to work on the SNF-funded N2O-SSA project as well as on related SDSC research projects. The postdoc will be based at the Swiss Data Science Centre in Zürich and will work closely with the Department of Environmental Systems Science – in particular the Sustainable Agroecosystems Group (https://sae.ethz.ch/) – as well as the University of Eldoret, Kenya (https://www.uoeld.ac.ke/). 

The first project will focus on valorization of protein waste into biodegradable plastics. The successful candidate will have a strong profile in biopolymers, plastic processing and manufacturing technologies, biodegradable polymers and materials science in general. The second project will focus on CO2 capture via protein-based porous materials. The successful candidate will be experienced with CO2 adsorption and separation processes, aerogels, porous materials design, chemosorption processes and materials functionalization.

We invite applications for several full-time positions at the Postdoc or Senior Postdoc level in the Climate Physics group of Prof. Reto Knutti at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science at ETH Zurich. We are seeking physical scientists with research experience in coupled global or regional climate models, simplified Earth System models, analysis of model results, or machine learning/data science applied to environmental problems.

The Zamboni lab hosts the Clinical Metabolomics Analysis Center, which is a technology hub affiliated with the Swiss initiatives on personalized health (PHRT, www.sfa-phrt.ch). Thereby, it is tightly embedded in numerous projects and collaborations aiming at integrating deep molecular data into clinical decisions. Here, the focus of the Center is on democratizing metabolomics and lipidomics analyses for broad adoption in clinical research and diagnostic data streams. A speciality of the group is the development of high-throughput untargeted LC-MS methods. These are critical to swiftly screening large cohorts of clinical samples, drug libraries, or genetic mutants. With a steadily growing volume of samples and studies, novel opportunities emerge. These opportunities include learning across studies, implementing novel MS2 fragmentation strategies that maximize the amount of non-redundant information obtained in each study, aggregating different types of information for the task of structural elucidation, and exploiting novel types of fragmentation technology.

• You would create novel research breakthroughs and contribute to the ambitious ERC Advanced Investigator Grant on “Co-Evolving City Life” (CoCi) in subject areas connected to smart cities and digital societies.
• Your specific research focus will be on “Sustainable Cities and Coordination”. Given recent digital technologies such as the Internet of Things (sensor and communication networks), Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain/ Distributed Ledger Technology, production and logistics are becoming increasingly smart.
• You will study how the convergence of these technologies can be used to fuel new approaches towards more sustainable production and logistics in an urban context, particularly consumption and waste disposal. For example, Blockchain technology allows for the creation of new token-based incentive systems in areas that suffer from externality effects, including the implementation of “smart waste”.
• The research question we would like to answer is, how the approach of self-organized and learning networked agents can be used to create social incentives and economic forces that would promote the emergence of closed loops in a material supply network and could thereby boost the formation of a circular and sharing economy. We want to study, how a multi-dimensional real-time measurement, feedback and coordination system would have to be designed and operated in order to reach this goal. Creating new incentive systems that encourage sustainable action and discourage unsustainable actions are, in fact, a new application domain of community-managed local and crypto-currencies.
• Together with our team, you will work on the mechanisms and effects of multi-dimensional, real-time coordination by means of a “socio-ecological finance system” (“finance system 4.0”), elaborate the theoretical concept, then investigate it by means of agent-based simulations and experiments, and finally apply it in an urban demonstration project.
• You will produce a simulation program demonstrating self-organizing logistic networks that become more circular and sustainable over time.
• Furthermore, we want to couple the simulation program with a sensor-based environment (Raspberry Pi or Arduino, or other) that responds to measurements, flexibly adapts, and self-organizes.

The Architectural Cognition in Practice (ACP) research group, within Future Cities Lab  Global, Singapore-ETH Centre, aims to improve how architects conceptualise the end-users in the architectural and urban design process, by providing empirical knowledge and evaluation methods from the multidisciplinary field of Architectural Cognition. The project integrates a range of research techniques and methods from cognitive and behavioural science, implementation science, computer science, as well as from architectural research; these include, among others, behavioural mapping, eye-tracking, space syntax and others.

We seek a postdoctoral researcher to join our group for the EU project «Delivering the next generation of Open Integrated Assessment Models for net-zero, sustainable development» (DIAMOND), funded by Horizon Europe. Despite the significant evolution of integrated assessment models (IAMs) in the last decade, there remain several criticisms on their design, use, and adequacy to respond to emerging questions in light of the Paris Agreement and net-zero ambition. DIAMOND will update, upgrade, and fully open six IAMs that are emblematic of scientific and policy processes, improving their sectoral and technological detail. 

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Modern biotechnologies use living cells or molecules as tools or organic “biological front-end layers” to interface with physical environments for sensing, actuation, material synthesis, and energy harvesting. Integrated electronics, as an inorganic “semiconductor back-end layer,” offer cellular/molecular feature sizes at nanometers, versatile sensing/actuation modalities, and massive abilities to compute, store, and communicate information. Our research focuses on merging these two organic/inorganic layers and opening the door to novel hybrid biotic/abiotic systems.

The open position entails working closely with Prof. Dr. Tanja Stadler and other team members in the Computational Evolution group on mathematical models for phylodynamics. The overarching goal is to develop a general coherent phylodynamic framework allowing us to identify fundamental population dynamic rules across biological scales based on both phylogenetic trees and data on the abundance of individuals. 

The initial goal is to explore characteristics, similarities and limitations of the stochastic birth-death model and the coalescent within phylodynamics. Based on these insights, you will formulate a neutral phylodynamic model that has these common birth-death-based and coalescent-based phylodynamic models embedded within it. Subsequently, the neutral phylodynamic model will be extended such that population structure, selection and cell differentiation can be taken into account. We envision that the resulting model will be the basis for future phylodynamic applications.