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.
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(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral researcher position at the Chair of Construction Heritage and Preservation
The SNSF-funded research project “Architecture & Patent. The Buildings of the ETH Domain” investigates the role of the patent in architecture, both in the development of technical inventions and in the protection of the utility and decorative patterns of design elements. The objects investigated include the buildings of the ETH Domain in Zurich and Lausanne, the sites of the Paul Scherrer Institute, and the EMPA from 1855 to the present day. They fulfil the prerequisites for the patent analyses covering the building history from historicism through modernism and postmodernism to the present day.
Deadline : Open until filled
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position on the thermoacoustic dynamics of can-annular combustors
The goal of this research is to understand and model thermoacoustic instabilities in future can-annular combustors. These combustors will enable clean combustion of green hydrogen in large gas turbines that will be used to balance intermittent electricity production of renewable sources. These thermoacoustic instabilities result from the constructive interaction of the unsteady combustion process and the combustor acoustics. They are strongly undesirable because they severely restrict the operating range of the engine. In this context, the development of special, more compact, can-combustors for hydrogen necessitates significant research effort to predict and prevent thermoacoustic instabilities.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position on the thermoacoustic dynamics of hydrogen fired combustors for aircraft propulsion
The goal of this research is to understand, model and control thermoacoustic instabilities and flame dynamics in future hydrogen-fired aircraft combustors. These combustors will enable net CO2 reductions of future aircrafts of 75% compared to kerosene-powered aviation. The thermoacoustic instabilities result from the constructive interaction of the unsteady combustion process and the combustor acoustics. They are strongly undesirable because they can severely restrict the operating range of the engine. In this context, the development of special annular combustors for hydrogen necessitates significant research effort to predict and prevent thermoacoustic instabilities and to ensure robust and low-NOx combustion process.
Deadline : July 1st 2022
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Zwei Doktorandenstellen: Akzeptanz von Fleischersatzprodukten (m/w/d)
Das Projekt wird im Rahmen des interdisziplinären EU-Projekts GIANT LEAPS durchgeführt. Ziel dieses Projekts ist ein besseres Verständnis darüber, wie traditionelle, tierische Proteine durch alternative Proteine ersetzt werden können. Dies sollte zu einer gesünderen und nachhaltigeren Ernährung führen. Die beiden Doktorierenden werden im sozialwissenschaftlichen Arbeitspaket mitarbeiten, in welchem die Barrieren und Chancen für einen solchen Wandel im Ernährungssystem untersucht werden sollen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf der Konsumentenakzeptanz verschiedener Proteinquellen.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Ph.D. position: Life cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis for green hydrogen
To achieve climate change goals, the production and utilization of green hydrogen play an essential role in reducing our dependency on fossil resources. Widely discussed sustainable sources for green hydrogen production are water and solar energy. However, current technologies like photovoltaic-based electrolysis or photocatalytic water splitting have low efficiencies and difficulties in scaling up for industrial production. Thus, this project aims to develop a novel, sustainable solar-driven process for producing green hydrogen from water and biomass.
Deadline : June 1st 2022
(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral position at the Chair of Construction Heritage and Preservation
The project, funded by the German Research Foundation/Money follows Researcher–Science Europe is based on the emerging field of exhibition studies in architecture history. It examines the development of real-world scale architecture exhibitions where temporary and permanent villages and settlements were constructed next to many other forms of exhibits. The multifaceted curatorial practice experimented with architecture, construction, landscape and design as well as with social strategies, which in turn had an impact on an urban scale. Within this research context, the doctoral research will focus on related exhibitions, their curatorial practice, communication, architecture and design.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Environmental Microbiology
The position is part of a project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, at the intersection of microbiology, biochemistry, and environmental sciences. Our approach is multidisciplinary and based on isotopic and metabolomic tools that we plan to use to elucidate the role of intracellular enzymatic mechanisms on phosphoryl transfer reactions in heterotrophic microorganisms.
Deadline : July 15, 2022
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Aerosol Microbiome Research
Microbes perform functions essential for diverse ecosystem services and health. They impact key climatological processes such as cloud formation and precipitation in the atmosphere. Atmospheric transport is known to mediate the exchange of microorganisms within and between terrestrial and marine environments. However, airborne microbial communities remain the least studied microbiome on Earth, especially in remote areas such as the open oceans. Processes at the ocean-atmosphere interface are of particular importance, given that they underpin the distribution of airborne marine microbes, which may affect ecosystem structure and health even thousands of kilometres away from their source. To advance our understanding, it is thus essential to establish an inventory of airborne marine microbes and study the factors that shape their diversity, drive their emission, and project their dispersal across space.
Deadline : August 31st 2022:
(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Positions in Inorganic Chemistry
Our newly established group applies the tools and approaches of inorganic/organometallic chemistry to synthesize molecules and materials with stimuli-responsive (sensory) and catalytic function. The targeted chemistry spans transition metal/main group complexes, metallopolymers and carbon nanomaterials.
Deadline : Open until filled
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Positions in Electronic Design Automation and Reconfigurable Computing
We are interested in developing a broad scope of techniques to ease the programmability of digital hardware (e.g., reconfigurable devices such as FPGAs). Our goal is to bridge the gap between software and hardware by developing language abstractions, compiler flows, and hardware devices that enable software developers from different domains to accelerate emerging compute-intensive applications. We are looking for creative and highly motivated researchers to join our team. Each new group member can choose a research direction according to their background and our mutual research interests. Apart from actively shaping our group’s research, the PhD positions include international collaborations with academia and industry, mentoring BSc and MSc students, and teaching activities in the areas of electronic design automation, reconfigurable computing, and embedded systems.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion
This full-time position offers students an excellent opportunity to delve into energy science and gain deep fundamental knowledge about electrochemical processes. You will join an inclusive, diverse, and supportive working environment that praises scientific curiosity and creativity. The tentative starting date is June 2022 or later. Applications are accepted until the position is filled.
Deadline : Open until filled
(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student in Isotope Geochemistry
This position is part of the ERC-funded project “Respires: Reconstructing the Effect of Sulfide Respiration on Global Redox State”. The project strives to resolve the controls on—and reconstruct past changes in—pyrite mineral weathering, a major process that governs atmospheric oxygen and carbon dioxide levels. Specifically, we will study this process using innovative “triple” oxygen isotope compositions of sulfate—the main product of pyrite weathering—from a suite of global rivers. We will determine how these signals relate to geologic and climatic factors such as bedrock type, erosion rate, and precipitation amount. Our ultimate goal is to better interpret how pyrite weathering has changed in the geologic past, including its role in the evolution of life and the rise of atmospheric oxygen.
Deadline : June 1st 2022
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(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Molecular Biology & Biophysics
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly-motivated individual to investigate how the microtubule cytoskeleton is regulated by the gamma-TuRC. Potential project goals will include but are not limited to, using structural biology methods such as cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography, as well as single-molecule light microscopy such as Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence (TIRF), to visualize components of the gamma-TuRC as the complex nucleates microtubules.
Deadline : Open until filled
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Computational genomics
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly-motivated candidate to perform genome-wide association studies between sequence variant genotypes and complex traits and diseases in large cohorts of cattle. You will impute sequence variant genotypes for more than 100’000 individuals from various breeds using a sequenced reference panel of several thousand cattle. You will then implement novel statistical methods for association testing that take into account various modes of inheritance. Comprehensive omics and long read sequencing data will be investigated to fine-map trait-associated regions. Eventually, these analyses will identify candidate causal variants that will be subjected to in-depth functional characterization.
Deadline : Open until filled
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral Candidate – Evaluating sustainable food systems
The project objective is two-fold: (i) to improve and/or develop sustainability evaluation methods in the realm of life cycle assessment, prospective life cycle assessment, scenario projections, or integrated modelling, and (ii) to develop recommendations for sustainability improvements in different supply chains, countries, and regions, based on quantitative analyses.
Deadline : Open until filled
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Digital Transformation
You will research measures of digital technology adoption to assess the relationship between digital transformation, organizational capabilities, and practices to explain heterogeneity in firm behaviour and performance. To investigate the effects of digital transformation, most of the research will build on econometric analyses. In addition, you will conduct several small case studies to investigate the firm-internal mechanisms underlying the quantitative findings to derive evidence-based implications for organizational design and strategy in the era of digital transformation.
Deadline : May 31st 2022:
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(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Two PhD positions at the chair for the History and Theory of Architecture
The project « Building Identity: Character in Architectural Debate and Design, 1750-1850 » examines the uses and meaning of ‘character’ in architectural criticism and practice in the period 1750-1850. In architectural discourse ‘character’ denotes the capacity of buildings to give expression to quality or emotion, and thereby enter into a meaningful relationship with the public. Still used in architectural criticism today, often casually, ‘character’ was a topic of intense exploration and debate in European architectural criticism and practice in the period 1750-1850. This project will produce a critical history of the uses and meaning of ‘character’ in that period, to understand why it became so important, and why its concepts persist today. It studies writings on the character in architecture against the background of key developments during the Enlightenment and combines close reading with historical research.
Deadline : May 31st 2022
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Computational Earthquake Physics
The PhD project is in the emerging domain of numerical modelling and earthquake physics. A major goal in earthquake physics is to develop a constitutive modelling framework that captures the dependence of fault behaviour on rock rheology, temperature, and fluids. In this PhD project, we tie together progress in computational methods, deformation experiments, and field observations, to develop the next generation of modelling tools to capture the complex multi-physics and multi-scale response of active tectonic faults across spatiotemporal scales.
Deadline : June 15th 2022
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Hardware Security
We are looking for someone with a strong hardware design background and a Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer science or a related field to join our top-notch group. The candidate is expected to collaborate with the group members and the microelectronics design center in the department (https://dz.ee.ethz.ch) to build the next generation of secure hardware/software platforms.
Deadline : Open until filled
(20) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Systems Security
As a new member of the group, you are supposed to contribute to research activities in the group and gradually build your own independent research profile according to your interests. Successful candidates are expected to work towards a doctoral degree, and participate in the teaching activities of the group. The research group aims to increase the number of women in scientific positions. Female candidates are therefore encouraged to apply.
Deadline : Open until filled
(21) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral position on “Tracking bacterial motility and chemotaxis”
Marine bacteria play a fundamental role in global biogeochemical cycles, contributing, among many other impacts, to the control of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and access to elements throughout marine trophic networks. Bacteria do this as a result of their microscale interactions with resources—for example marine snow particles and the nutrient-rich psychosphere surrounding phytoplankton—that are often transient and highly heterogeneous. Many marine bacteria use movement behaviour to forage in the ocean’s heterogeneous resource landscape, yet there remain fundamental open questions as to the forms, prevalence and ecological impact of motility and chemotaxis in marine bacteria.
Deadline : Open until filled
(22) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral position on “Measuring bacterial motility and chemotaxis in the oceans”
The goal of the project is to quantify the prevalence of motility and chemotaxis toward ecologically relevant compounds over the depth of the ocean water column, by deploying our recently developed in-situ motility (ISMA) and chemotaxis (ISCA) microfluidic assays. These direct field measures of bacterial behaviour will be allied with ecological characterization and metagenomics of the isolated bacteria in the laboratory. The student will therefore have the opportunity to carry out experiments in the ocean based on a scientific research vessel and laboratory trials to study bacterial behaviour (microfluidics experiments, video tracking and image analysis) and genetics (e.g. metagenomics).
Deadline : Open until filled
(23) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doktorandenstelle im Forschungsprojekt Architektur und Patent (m/w/d)
Das vom SNF geförderte “Projekt Architektur und Patent. Die Bauten des ETH-Bereichs” untersucht die Rolle des Patents in der Architektur sowohl bei der Entwicklung technischer Erfindungen als auch im Hinblick auf Gebrauchs- und Geschmackmusterschutz von Gestaltungselementen. Forschungsgegenstand sind die Bauten des ETH-Bereichs in Zürich und Lausanne, an den Standorten des Paul-Scherrer-Instituts sowie der EMPA von 1855 bis heute. Einen kontinuierlichen, von Innovationsanspruch geprägten Baubestand bildend erfüllen sie die Voraussetzungen für die das Baugeschehen vom Historismus über die Moderne und Postmoderne bis hin zur Gegenwart umfassenden Patentanalysen.
Deadline : Open until filled
(24) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Two PhD positions in computational near-surface geophysics
Key elements of the two PhD projects include further developments of viscoelastic FWI, optimized model parameterizations, joint FWI of seismic and GPR data, and establishing novel target-orientated data acquisition strategies. The usefulness of all these developments will be tested with applications to synthetic data, laboratory experiments in the unique Center for Immersive Wave Experimentation and field applications. The subdivision of all these tasks into two PhD projects will be made, once individuals have been identified.
Deadline : May 31, 2022.
(25) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD opening for in-vitro models of the placental barrier to study human Brucella infection and antibiotic treatment
Within the framework of a collaborative project within the National Competence Center of Research (NCCR) “Antiresist” (https://www.nccr-antiresist.ch/en/), the student will develop a microphysiological model of the placental barrier to study Brucella infection and antibiotic treatment at the maternal-fetal interface. The placental-barrier model will be included in a dedicated microfluidic platform to emulate brucellosis under physiologically relevant conditions and to reproduce the highly dynamic microenvironment of the placental interstitial space. The infection process and drug action will be continuously monitored at high resolution using high resolution live microscopy. Mechanisms of bacterial infections and host-pathogen interactions will be studied at molecular and cellular levels, and novel therapeutic approaches will be developed to combat brucellosis.
Deadline : Open until filled
(26) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student: On the fundamentals of bulk nanobubble stability and the development of sustainable water treatment technologies
The focus of this PhD will be on developing a scientific base for how environmental conditions influence the onset of bulk nanobubble nucleation, growth, and stability. The student will have the unique opportunity to learn, develop, and apply a range of cutting-edge micro/nanoengineering techniques and advanced experimental characterization methods. Surfaces will be fabricated guided by theory as will the necessary new diagnostics that we will develop. Findings here will address an important challenge for applications at the water-energy nexus.
Deadline : Open until filled
(27) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Postdoctoral Researcher in Precision Dairy Science
The successful candidate will work actively with the team to develop a research program that uses technological and data-driven approaches to measure physiological, behavioral, and production indicators with the goal of optimizing production efficiencies and food quality, management strategies, and improving the sustainability of dairy farms and livestock systems as a whole.
Deadline : Open until filled
(28) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD student position in experimental fluid dynamics
We seek to appoint a PhD student to conduct experimental research to discover the effects of material mechanical properties on cavitation bubble dynamics in yield stress fluids and soft elastic solids. You will design your experimental setup by exploiting the state-of-the-art ultra-high-speed imaging, optical and acoustic facilities available in our lab. You will also couple your experimental findings with numerical simulations performed by our collaborators at the Fluid Lab at the Soft Matter Group of University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (numerical PhD opening of this project can be found here), with whom tight scientific exchange will happen throughout the project. In addition to research, you will contribute to teaching and lab activities in the institute.
Deadline : Open until filled
(29) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Multiple PhD Student positions — Food Biotechnology and Food Biochemistry
We are seeking highly motivated individuals who are passionate about fermented foods/beverages and microbial ecology to join our team. Multiple cross-linked collaborative doctoral projects are available.
- Project 1: Your goal will be to launch a “citizen science” project to catalogue, characterize, and preserve the microbial biodiversity of fermented foods and beverages from Swiss, European, and global sources. You will employ both omics and computational/bioinformatics methods to study the composition and ecological interactions of fermented food microbiomes, metabolomes, their contributions to food quality, and potential applications for rational re-design of microbiomes for fermented foods and beverages.
- Project 2: Your goal will be to integrate multiple metabolomics and microbiome metagenomics technologies with advanced tools and techniques for data analysis to develop a toolbox for rapid fingerprinting and early prediction of food quality and health outcomes from fermented foods, strains, and consortia. This will drive a “culturomics” approach for targeted isolation and characterization of unique strains and consortia for further characterization.
- Project 3: Your goal will be to use food fermentation as a model system for investigating microbial species interactions and genetic traits that direct outcomes for species fitness, community assembly, and food quality. You will use molecular, deep sequencing, and genetic manipulation methods for deep investigation of inter-kingdom interactions in model ecosystems and food matrices, in pursuit of generalizable “rules of life” that transcend these systems.
Deadline : Open until filled
(30) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral position on “Behavioral responses of young fish to hydropeaking”Doctoral position on “Behavioral responses of young fish to hydropeaking”
You are expected to develop a flume-based experimental approach, based on an existing flume and imaging technology, to quantify fine-scale movement responses of early life stages of fish to laboratory-simulated hydropeaking scenarios. The project will build upon recently developed methods that combine state-of-the-art imaging-based tracking techniques in a laboratory flume. You will address questions such as: how do young fish exploit their hydrodynamic environment under different hydropeaking conditions? What are the main hydrodynamic cues that trigger changes in fish behaviour? Does habitat cover, such as surrounding vegetation, influence fish responses? Do the different stages of hydropeaking (up-and down-ramping rates) lead to negative impacts such as stranding or enforced burst swimming?
Deadline : Open until filled
(31) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Students in Quantum Computing with Superconducting Circuits
As a successful candidate, you will become part of our young team setting up large-scale quantum computing systems in a brand-new lab. Like the rest of the team, you will be working closely with the Quantum Device Lab – a well-established research group – and be able to both benefit from the expertise developed there and to contribute to its progress. You will perform collaborative research towards the realization of quantum computing technologies. You will get to contribute to diverse aspects of the experimental effort, both technical (design of electronics and mechanical components, building of microwave setups) and conceptual (design of experiments, planning of future research strategies). In the lab, you will either realize noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) algorithms for applications in quantum chemistry, material science and optimization problems, or pursue the development of fault-tolerant quantum computation by implementing error correction.
Deadline : Open until filled
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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