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.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion
Our group studies fundamental processes in solutions, materials, and at the electrode-electrolyte interfaces using a combination of various in-situ and ex-situ characterization techniques coupled with detailed electrochemical studies. We then apply this fundamental knowledge to the design of new battery materials, electrocatalysts, and electrolytes that can deliver improved performance (i.e., charging times, energy, capacity, cycling stability), cost, efficiency, and safety.
Deadline : Open until filled
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position – Development of sensors for airborne pollutants
The research is related to the development of sensors for airborne pollutants. Detection of pollutants plays critical roles in environmental protection, safeguarding human health and societal welfare, limiting contamination, and enhancing production yield in industries. Our group is engaged in the development of various optical and electrochemical sensors targeting gaseous and biological pollutants.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student in MRI Methodology
The aim of this position is to strengthen pioneering efforts in MRI of tissues and tissue components with very short-lived resonance signals. Current advances in this area promise to expand the scope of MRI to solid tissues and macromolecules to which it has traditionally been blind, such as myelin or collagen. Gaining noninvasive access to these tissues has the potential to improve the quality of medical treatment for a range of diseases including multiple sclerosis and osteoporosis. The activity addresses the full breadth of this challenge, ranging from physical principles and novel instrumentation to strategies for image encoding and reconstruction strategies as well as applications in basic research and medicine.
Deadline : Open until filled
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in ultrafast dynamics of solids
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to investigate the optical properties of materials which are undergoing periodic modulations of atomic and/or magnetic structure. The goal is to study several regimes of light-phonon and light-magnon interaction and their potential applications for photonic and material control. Part of the research is done using pump-probe THz spectroscopy, and part using time-resolved x-ray spectroscopy.
Deadline : Open until filled
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in emerging black soldier fly biowaste processing
You are expected to explore heterogeneous and dynamic rearing conditions resulting in the optimization of higher-value products, for example, melanin, chitin or lauric acid. The objective is to develop a dynamic growth model that predicts rearing conditions for optimal waste treatment and production of high-value products. Ultimately, the findings are expected to increase the understanding of this novel process and aid the development of practical tools. The research will be completed within the collaboration on black soldier fly research by ETH Zurich, Eawag and the Singapore-ETH Centre. The project background should be seen as a broad framework that can be detailed and altered based on the applicant’s background and interest.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position: Project on Artificial Intelligence and People Analytics
In particular, the project focus lies on the application of AI for people analytics functions such as recruitment, well-being monitoring, and coaching. The introduction of AI into human resources functions is challenging due to the unique characteristics of AI algorithms; their opaqueness, embedded bias and autonomous nature reshape the way individual users and organizations perceive trust and fairness. In collaboration with UBS, you will investigate various applications of AI in organizations, which have a key strategic importance yet remain underexplored.
Deadline : Open until filled
(07) 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.
Deadline : Open until filled
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position: Follicular Endocrinology during Personalised Ovarian Stimulation (PROSPECT-study)
The interdisciplinary PROSPECT-study funded by PHRT (Personalized Health and Related Technologies) comprises a comparative approach with cattle as an animal model for the human follicular development. In this project, blood and follicular fluid samples of human and cows undergoing IVF treatment will be collected for the characterisation of the steroidome using an MS-based method. In addition, granulosa cells from both species will be acquired for transcriptional analyses and correlated with the obtained hormonal data and ultrasound imaging acquired in a complementary second project part.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position: Ovarian Follicle Growth Dynamics: 3D Colored Power Doppler Imaging in Heifers (PROSPECT-study)
The interdisciplinary PROSPECT-study funded by PHRT (Personalized Health and Related Technologies) comprises the characterisation of ovarian follicle growth dynamics in heifers. The study will include a new improved and automatized computational image analysis of 3D sonographic scans produced over the course of natural and stimulated cycles for mathematical modelling purposes.
Deadline : Open until filled
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position: ETonFARM – Non-surgical porcine embryo transfer
The study partially funded by Federal Agency for Agriculture (Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft, BLW) comprises a cooperation approach between ETH Zurich, SUISAG (Swiss pig farming industry) and Minitube (a world-wide leading supplier of systems for the field of assisted animal reproduction) in which we will develop an automatable warming system for vitrified embryos as well as a non-surgical ET procedure performed at the site of the recipient female on-farm.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position – Aerosol technologies for bioaerosol sampling, detection and risk management
The research is related to the development of aerosol technologies for bioaerosol sampling, detection and risk management. Bioaerosols, including airborne bacteria, viruses, fungi, and fragments of these organisms pose risks to humans. Even minute amounts of inhaled bioaerosols may cause adverse health impacts such as infectious diseases, allergic diseases, and reactions to toxins or irritants. Emerging hazardous components such as antibiotic resistance genes and metal resistance genes highlight the evolving risks due to bioaerosols. Our group is engaged in the development of various sensors targeting biological pollutants, which have strong synergy with aerosol technologies for bioaerosol sampling, detection and control.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position: “Multiphase Modeling of Alpine Mass Movements and Process Cascades”
In this PhD work, you develop a multi-phase material point method (MPM) for alpine mass movements and cascading processes. In a first step, you implement of a two-phase hydromechanical MPM in which solid and fluid phases. Then, a heat energy balance equation will be introduced including friction heat dissipation and phase changes. The model will be evaluated based on benchmark tests and then applied to real-case scenarios such as the 2017 Piz Cengalo rockslide or the 2021 Chamoli disaster. You will publish your results in scientific journals, present them at international conferences and contribute to teaching at ETH Zurich.
Deadline : Open until filled
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position: “Modeling Entrainment Mechanisms in Alpine Mass Movements”
In this thesis, you will work with a coupled CFD-DEM model to investigate entrainment mechanisms in alpine mass movements. One important objective will be to decipher the influence of the saturation degree of the bed material on entrainment rates and ultimately on the flow mobility. Results will be implemented in a depth-averaged model evaluated based on the simulation of documented events. You will publish your results in scientific journals, present them at international conferences and contribute to teaching at ETH Zurich.
Deadline : Open until filled
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Large-Scale Robotic 3D Concrete Printing
Within this interdisciplinary endeavour, you will co-develop methods for large-scale robotically 3D printing with concrete. The project involves designing 3DP concrete structures and the development of custom software and hardware tools for large-scale reinforced concrete prototypes. Your research will encompass design studies, automatic data generation for 3DP, the development of print-path strategies, prototyping, and testing. The project aims to culminate in large-scale demonstrators to be produced in the Robotic Fabrication Laboratory of ETH Hönggerberg.
Deadline : Open until filled
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD positions in Systems or Hardware 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. You 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
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position: modeling fracture of meta-materials
This position is part of a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, which will support a total of four researchers, and focuses on the development of interfaces with unconventional mechanical properties. This PhD position will focus on the fracture properties of meta-materials. The objective is to develop numerical models of architected materials with interfaces and to investigate their mechanical properties. Different approaches for generating interfaces will be explored and evaluated. The numerical results will then be compared to experimental data collected by other team members and used to study the fundamental mechanisms governing the failure of meta-materials.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position: Development of low-temperature CO2 sorbents for direct air capture
You will work closely with other PhD students, postdocs and collaborators of the Laboratory of Energy Science and Engineering. The work will focus on the development of low-temperature CO2 sorbents for direct air capture.
Deadline : Open until filled
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position: gradiometric sensors for high-resolution seismic imaging using sparse recording configurations
In the Exploration and Environmental Geophysics (EEG) group at ETH Zürich, we are recruiting a PhD student to design, fabricate and test gradiometric sensors, based on mechanical metamaterials. You will involve a combination of theory and experiments. The theory work will comprise computer optimization of the sensor design whereas the experimental part will consist of the fabrication and characterization of the sensor. For fabrication, we will employ a combination of 3D printing and cleanroom-based microfabrication, and for characterization, we will use laser doppler vibrometry on a sandbox setup for instance containing lunar regolith simulant.
Deadline : Open until filled
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Biohybrid Muscles
You would, during the thesis, also get involved in the engineering of real neural networks since the engineered muscles would provide a resource to test genetically engineered neuron cells.
The output of the Ph.D. thesis is going to be highly relevant as a model system for microrobots to move within the constructs and to use the constructs for test grounds to do cell signaling and cell intervention.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(20) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position for Synthetic Biology-Inspired Therapies
The projects will combine basic and translational research to develop novel synthetic biology-inspired principles. Rational programming the behavior of human cells will shape future biomedical applications. This may include the design of novel biosensors, gene switches and genetic closed-loop circuits, the synthesis of novel chemical structures to interface and actuate cellular activities or to design programmable cellular implantable devices.
Deadline : Open until filled
(21) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in geo-energies modelling and experimental work within the EU SMILE project
Objectives: To develop an experimentally based study of the complex interaction between reactive pore fluids and rock matrix, in typical caprocks and reservoir rocks. Data will be collected both in a laboratory and in situ at ongoing pilot projects (e.g., at the Mont Terri and Bedretto Underground Labs, as well as at the islandic CO2 storage facility). The aim is to provide a link between relevant mechanical/hydraulic parameters and fluid-rock interaction. Experiments will be also tailed to link the characteristics of the rocks to seismic/aseismic slip, addressing the induced seismicity issue
Deadline : Open until filled
(22) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Researcher in Adaptive Planning of Transport Infrastructure under Uncertainty
The goal of the research is to advance the state-of-the-art of infrastructure planning under uncertainty by developing new tools and methods for model-based adaptive planning for infrastructure systems. The research is to improve the adaptive infrastructure planning process through the development of future scenarios, the potential interventions on the system, the monitoring strategy and the selection and optimization phase. The main contributions of this research will be: 1) advancing the modelling of future uncertainty, including its spatial distribution and endogeneity; 2) developing top-down models (e.g. system dynamics) and integrating them with bottom-up models (e.g. agent-based modelling) for adaptive planning, and 3) exploring the use of advanced techniques in sequential decision-making, such as reinforcement learning, for complex planning problems to circumvent the “curse of dimensionality”.
Deadline : Open until filled
(23) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Integrated System on Chip Design for Tactile Sensing in Robotics
In a first phase of the project you will be responsible for the realization of an analog front-end including a signal source, an amplification stage and an ADC for the capacitive tactile sensor. This comprises the concept, design, and layout of an integrated circuit and it’s characterization in the lab. You will use state-of-the art EDA tools for this purpose and enjoy the support of the Microelectronics Design Center of the Department.
Deadline : Open until filled
(24) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student in the field of targeting the microenvironment
It is envisaged that two PhD students will work in close collaboration on the project. One PhD student will focus more on the chemical and initial biological aspects, including the design and synthesis of optimized compounds. This will include the application of innovative methods such as AlphaFold with docking studies or DNA-encoded libraries, but also the initial biological evaluation of the new compounds.
Deadline : Open until filled
(25) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Machine Learning for Mental Healthy Longevity
As a PhD student, you will make prevention measurable, actionable, and accountable by developing digital biomarkers for healthy longevity. In particular, you will develop a digital biomarker for mental health and well-being by analyzing intensive longitudinal behavioural and physiological data (e.g. data from voice interactions, breathing patterns and other smartphone sensor data streams). Your activities will also build upon our current BEDDA, Breeze and CanRelax projects. The resulting digital biomarkers will be used to trigger behavioural precision interventions that slow down biological ageing processes. MobileCoach (www.mobile-coach.eu) written in Java and Javascript (ReactNative), among other technologies (Unity), will be used to conduct your digital biomarker research.
Deadline : Open until filled
(26) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD student in high resolution ocean modelling
You will analyze multi-decadal numerical experiments with the ICON model with the objective of elucidating the impact of resolving the oceanic mesoscale on marine heatwaves, especially the role of mesoscale ocean-atmosphere interactions in altering the structure and intensity of these extremes. Of particular interest is also the investigation of the penetration and subduction of the heatwaves into the ocean’s interior and in what way this may feedback onto the atmosphere upon resurfacing.
Deadline : Open until filled
(27) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position – Interiors of magma ocean planets
This PhD project is highly interdisciplinary as it links geophysics and exoplanetary science. You will explore and refine static interior models for Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes to better understand the diversity of their interiors and atmospheres. Specifically, the presence of magma oceans and their chemical coupling to the atmosphere are of key interest. With a new generation of in-house interior models, you will explore fundamental questions of exoplanetary science that link to the formation and evolution of distant worlds.
Deadline : Open until filled
(28) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Machine Learning for Predicting States of Receptivity in Digital Therapeutics
As a PhD student, you will make prevention measurable, actionable, and accountable by developing effective digital therapeutics for healthy longevity. In particular, you will use intensive longitudinal behavioural and physiological data (e.g., smartphone sensor data streams) and work on a smartphone-based digital therapeutic that predicts states of receptivity, i.e., opportune moments when individuals are able to receive, process, and use support. To this end, your research will build upon our award-winning work (ACM IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award 2022) on states of receptivity (Kuenzler et al. 2019 and Mishra et al 2021). The resulting state of receptivity system will be used to trigger behavioural precision interventions that slow down biological ageing processes. MobileCoach (www.mobile-coach.eu) written in Java and Javascript (ReactNative), among other technologies, will be used for your thesis project.
Deadline : Open until filled
(29) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Computational Genomics / Animal Genomics
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly-motivated candidate to investigate long read sequencing data collected from large cohorts of cattle. You will contribute to the detection of structural variants and impute them into several thousand individuals to perform association test between structural variants and complex traits. Comprehensive omics data will be investigated to fine-map trait-associated regions. There is also a possibility to contribute to our ongoing effort to establish a comprehensive bovine pangenome.
Deadline : Open until filled
(30) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Geophysics: Unravelling the Interior Dynamics of Jupiter and Saturn
The goal of the proposed Doctoral project is to place constraints on the internal structure of Jupiter and Saturn. To do so, we propose to produce a suite of numerical models of Jupiter and Saturn in which their internal structures is systematically varied. Comparison of the model outputs with the available observations of magnetic fields and surface flows will provide selection criteria for the most realistic models.
Deadline : Open until filled
(31) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD student position in experimental fluid dynamics: cavitation bioeffects
We seek to appoint a PhD student to conduct experimental and theoretical research to investigate cavitation effects in ultrasound-mediated transdermal drug delivery. 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 support your experimental investigations with theoretical and numerical acoustics and fluid dynamics models based on our existing codes. You will be part of an exciting collaboration with our colleagues at the Lab of Biomaterials Engineering at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, which you are expected to visit during the project. In addition to research, you will contribute to teaching and lab activities in the institute.
Deadline : Open until filled
(32) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student Position in Public Economics
You will conduct academic research of high policy relevance within the National Science Foundation (SNF) Project “Intergenerational Mobility: Multi-Dimensional Patterns, Determinants, and Effects on Beliefs”. The project is led by Dr Isabel Z. Martínez.Using large-scale register data, the primary research goals of this project are:
Deadline : Open until filled
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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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