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: Ph.D. Position in Personalized Visual Analytics: Human Preference Elicitation for Ranking-Based Multi-Criteria Decision Support 100 %
Multi-criteria decision support through item ranking is an understudied research direction. Current solutions exhibit considerable limitations, primarily due to their inability to meet the multi-faceted nature of human decision-making. Choosing between thousands of relevant items is a common task, where people are left alone with the need to express and balance multiple desirable preferences at once. Item rankings are a popular and universal approach to structuring unorganized item collections by multiple criteria at the same time. In interactive solutions, people can express multiple preferences, used by algorithms to compute human-centered and personal rankings. Visual Analytics (VA) is a field of research that supports complex human decision-making tasks by bringing together human intellectuality with the computational power of algorithms in effective human-in-the-loop approaches.
In this project, we will demonstrate how cutting-edge VA principles can be transferred to item ranking, to overcome remaining challenges, demonstrate effective and efficient interactive ranking creation solutions, and empower broad audiences. Limitations of ranking systems mainly include their incompatibility for the elicitation of item- and attribute-based preferences, insufficient handling of user-introduced uncertainty, inadequate guidance for engaging with large item sets, lacking interaction histories, inefficient human-centric feedback loops, or a lack of explanations and transparency of ranking algorithms, thus creating a disconnect between the technology and nuanced user needs. Finally, interactive ranking creation does not yet make use of interfaces for eliciting implicit user preferences, e.g., in textual form using large language models.
Deadline : Open until filled
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in the field of law and human reproduction, with a focus on empirical legal studies and legal data science 80 %
What are the social norms guiding fertility choices? How do prices affect the use of assisted reproduction technologies? How do laws affect the parenthood happiness gap? How can we empirically test highly controversial claims about human reproduction and its normative challenges?
The University Research Priority Program (URPP) “Human Reproduction Reloaded | H2R” explores rapidly developing medical technologies in the field of human reproduction, the societal challenges they pose and their legal implications. This interdisciplinary positioned URPP is hosted by the Faculty of Law and brings together researchers from six faculties as well as from various disciplines from the humanities, social, medical and natural sciences. The URPP’s phase 2 (2025-2028) revolves around three main research foci: family, kinship and gender; declining fertility and non-reproduction; and CRISPR.
The PhD position will be attached to the Chair for Legal Tech, Law and Economics, and Public Law (Prof. Dr. Dr. Yoan Hermstrüwer). The chair provides a genuinely interdisciplinary and international work environment. Our team is committed to exploring a wide range of social, economic and political issues bearing on all areas of the law. Our research projects rest on experimental methods, econometric analysis, and methods from data science more generally.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in middle-ear mechanics and middle-ear implant (SNSF project) 100 %
As a PhD student in our research facility, you will play a key role in advancing our understanding of middle-ear mechanics and hearing restoration techniques. Your research will involve laboratory experiments, patient follow-up, and computational modeling. You will conduct experiments using temporal bone preparations to explore biomechanics of the middle ear and assess effects of surgical interventions. Additionally, you will engage with patients who have undergone middle-ear implant surgeries, collecting and analyzing data on their postoperative recovery and hearing outcomes.
A central focus of your work will be to investigate the role of the stapedial annular ligament and its relationship with middle-ear function, in both normal and surgically-reconstructed ears. You will also construct and simulate computational models of the middle-ear systems, contributing to development of advanced tools for understanding restoration of hearing. Throughout your PhD, you will write a dissertation composed of research papers, each prepared for publication in leading peer-reviewed journals. You will have the opportunity to present your findings at international conferences, gaining valuable experience and contributing to the global scientific community.
In addition to your research activities, you will be involved in teaching, which will further enhance your academic development and communication skills. This position offers a unique opportunity to make significant contributions to the field of otology while developing your career in clinical research.
Deadline : Open until filled
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Ph.D. Student – Electrical Engineering 80 %
We are looking for an electrical engineer/physicist with a Masters Degree and profound knowledge in hardware (PCB design, FPGA, optical components) and software (C, C++, Matlab, VHDL) engineering. The work also requires a familiarisation with the mathematical background (diffusion equation and its solutions, finite element methods, matrices, machine learning).
Deadline : Open until filled
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis (GIVA) “GeoNavLearn” 80 %
An MSc degree (including a completed MSc thesis) in geography, GIScience, psychology, cognitive (neuro-)science, and/or documented experience in geographic information visualization, spatial cognition, and empirical behavioral research with human participants.
- You have experience in empirical research with human participants
- You are interested in creating virtual reality (VR) environments and running empirical studies in VR
- You are confident in writing scripts to collect and process human sensor data (i.e., EEG, eye tracking, etc.) and perform various analyses (i.e., in Python or R)
- You have good organizational and communication skills
- You speak and write in English fluently. Knowledge of German would be an asset
- You value diversity and inclusion in the workplace
Deadline : Open until filled
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Innovation Management 60 – 100 %
The University of Zurich is one of Europe’s most prestigious research universities. The Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics is known for its strong international orientation, vibrant research culture, and close ties to practice.
We are looking for a highly motivated and research-oriented candidate to join our team. The position offers the opportunity to pursue a PhD at one of Europe’s leading research universities, located in the heart of Zurich.
Deadline : Open until filled
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Open PhD position in computational chemistry 80 %
The PhD project will deal with development and application of novel, accurate approaches for the study of functional catalytic compounds. A possible direction of the project is the development of advanced dynamic approaches for detailed and realistic study of reaction mechanisms and reaction networks considering in a sophisticated manner environmental effects (also under catalytic conditions). This can include the development of advanced enhanced sampling and machine learning approaches.
Our group has broad experience in modelling of reactions using DFT-MD, catalysis (such as water splitting), spectroscopy, excited states, and development of various other methodologies (e.g. in the CP2K package).
The project(s) may be carried out in close collaboration with experimental or other computational groups, for instance within the NCCR catalysis.
Deadline : Open until filled
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Ph.D. Position in Generative AI in the Context of News Recommender Systems 100 %
We are seeking Ph.D. students interested in investigating how such generative-driven recommendation systems can be developed and how they can adhere to fairness, accountability, trustworthiness, and transparency principles.
The position is available for candidates interested in these topics, who have a MSc in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence or a related discipline (or will be receiving it shortly), as well as a passion for discovering new things. Experience in the areas of recommender systems, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and knowledge representation are considered a plus but are not strictly necessary.
To apply, please gather your curriculum vitae, cover letter, all grade transcripts, a list of at least three references, and your BSc/MSc theses as PDF files and go to www.apply.dsi.uzh.ch/position/40009732
Deadline : Open until filled
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Ph.D. Position in AI for Good in the Context of News Recommender Systems 100 %
We are seeking Ph.D. candidates interested in conducting large-scale experiments in the context of news recommender systems to measure the impact of societal-driven optimization criteria on user satisfaction and consumption behavior. In the tradition of our group, we encourage applications seeking to explore both the technical and behavioral dimensions of news recommender systems whilst leveraging the latest AI methods.
The position is available for candidates interested in these topics, who have a MSc in Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence or a related discipline (or will be receiving it shortly), as well as a passion for discovering new things. Experience in the areas of recommender systems, and/or behavioral analyses such as running experiments with human subjects are considered a plus but are not strictly necessary.
To apply, please gather your curriculum vitae, cover letter, all grade transcripts, a list of at least three references, and your BSc/MSc theses as PDF files and go to www.apply.dsi.uzh.ch/position/40009731
Deadline : Open until filled
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in the Research Group of Professor Karsten Donnay 80 %
The PhD student will support all aspects of the collaborative research project described above throughout the project’s three-year duration. This includes adapting and deploying the already existing open-source prototype of the translation tool for simple language that serves as the foundation for this project; accompanying and supporting its use by our practice partners in real-world settings; designing, conducting and evaluating the field experiments that will test its effectiveness in improving benefit uptake; contributing to academic publications that disseminate the project’s findings. Given the project’s practical orientation, public dissemination of results through workshops and other outreach events is an integral part of our project, and the PhD student will play a key role in this process. In addition, the position also includes stakeholder management and regular coordination with our various practice partners.
Active involvement in both the research teams of Dr. Gabriel and Prof. Donnay is expected and workspaces at both institutes will be provided. The PhD student will be actively involved in the supervision of student research assistants supporting the broader project. There is no teaching requirement associated with the position. However, subject to departmental needs, there may be opportunities to take on compensated teaching assignments at the BA level.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in the Statistical Modeling of Linguistic Evolution 80 %
You are trained in historical and typological linguistics and are familiar with the basics of statistics and data wrangling. Familiarity with Bayesian approaches and/or phylogenetic comparative methods are additional assets. You furthermore have a vivid interest in adjacent fields, in particular neurolinguistics and human population genetics. You have excellent communication skills in English.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD in Ecology (up to 4 years) 80 %
The PhD student will conduct a series of experiments using microbial predator-prey communities under controlled laboratory settings using a 3D tracking system. This system facilitates high-resolution, high-throughput measurements of both individual behaviour and functional responses. The collected data will help to test hypotheses explaining variation in functional response shapes and serve to parameterize a model that derives the functional response from the underlying movement behaviour (conducted by the partners at the University of Amsterdam). The project involves frequent visits and exchanges between UZH and the University of Amsterdam.
Deadline : Open until filled
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Urban Analytics – Housing Affordability and Spatial Accessibility 80 %
The Urban Analytics Unit at the University of Zurich invites applications for a 4-year PhD position as part of a new research program. The PhD project will focus on spatial and social inequalities in housing affordability and explore future pathways in the context of urban change and Zurich’s policy commitment to expanding non-profit housing.
Deadline : Open until filled
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Urban Analytics – Mobility in the Net-Zero Transition 80 %
The Urban Analytics Unit at the University of Zurich invites applications for a 4-year PhD position as part of a new research program. The PhD project will focus on the transition to net-zero transport and its implications for spatial inequalities in cities.
Deadline : Open until filled
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position Text analysis of Multifunctional Landscapes GeoComputation (GCO) 80 %
The Geocomputation Unit in the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich invites applications for a PhD position as part of the Swiss National Science Foundation funded project Digiland: a digital approach to changing landscape value through multiscalar geographic text analysis. The appointment will be for up to four years, with an initial appointment for three years and one-year extension.
In Digiland we will investigate how the diverse ways in which people value landscapes can be identified and interpreted, and how these values vary across different types of landscape. As a PhD student, you will focus on studying multifunctional peri-urban landscapes in Europe, exploring their diverse functions and the ways in which these functions influence values. To do so, you will carry out a series of case studies at different locations in different European languages and countries, using a combination of computational distant reading and qualitative close reading.
Deadline : Open until filled
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Student in Philosophy in SNSF-Project M-Rational 80 %
We invite you to apply for a three-year funded PhD position in philosophy whose research output will be directly relevant to building the next generation of neuro-symbolic reasoning AI. As a PhD student you will contribute to the research project «Reconceiving and Improving Multi-Perspectivality and Rationality in Argumentative AI (M-Rational)» funded by the SNSF at the University of Zurich’s Digital Society Initiative (DSI) under the supervision of Dr. Reto Gubelmann. The main philosophical reference point will be inferentialism, especially as developed by Robert Brandom. The Digital Society Initiative (DSI) aims to shape the digital transformation of science and society and thus to strengthen Zurich as a center of research and business.
Deadline : Open until filled
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position: Experimental evolution of reproductive strategies under varying sex ratios 80 %
This fully funded project of 4 years combines large-scale experimental evolution with cutting-edge deep-learning tools for automated, high-throughput phenotyping of behavioral and morphological traits. This approach allows rigorous testing of hypotheses about adaptive benefits of evolved strategies in mixed social contexts.
Deadline : Open until filled
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position on Global Protected Areas GeoComputation (GCO) 80 %
The Geocomputation Unit in the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich invites applications for a PhD position as part of the Swiss National Science Foundation funded project Digiland: a digital approach to changing landscape value through multiscalar geographic text analysis. The appointment will be up to four years, with an initial appointment for three years and one-year extension.
In Digiland we will investigate how the diverse ways in which people value landscapes can be identified and interpreted, and how these values vary across different types of landscape. As a PhD student, you will focus on studying national parks globally, to explore how different biophysical, sociocultural, political, and institutional contexts shape the ways these protected areas are valued and how these values vary across e.g. different locations, time, languages, and actors. To achieve these aims you will analyse texts digitally, using state of the art methods to enable scalable and comparative analysis.
Deadline : Open until filled
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: fOpen PhD position in Population Genomics 80 %
I am looking for a student with a strong background in population genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, computational biology, statistics, or related fields, and an interest in linguistic and cultural evolution. Good communication skills in English are required.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(20) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral student 80%
The Psychological Institute of the University of Zurich (Prof. V. Brandstätter, Prof. AM Freund) is seeking to fill a position as a doctoral student (80% employment) in a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
The project primarily addresses the question of which processes can contribute to individuals setting personal goals in line with their implicit motives during the transition to retirement, and whether these goals contribute to a positive transition. The project pursues a multi-method approach and includes experimental and correlational studies, cross-sectional and longitudinal designs, and an intervention using experience sampling in everyday life.
Deadline : Open until filled
(21) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in the University Research Priority Program “Adaptive Brain Circuits during Learning and Development: AdaBD” 100%
A doctoral position is available as part of the ChildBrainCircuits+ (CBC+) project of the University Research Priority Program (URPP) AdaBD. The project is led by Prof. S. Brem and Dr. S. Di Pietro in collaboration with Prof. C. Ruff, Prof. N. Raschle, PD M. von Rhein and Prof. A. Rauch at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich.
The efficient integration and processing of stimuli from different sensory modalities is fundamental for learning and the development of cognition, perception and, in particular, language. Deficits in learning and/or the processing of multisensory information impair children’s development. However, the neurobiological and genetic basis of multisensory learning in the brain and the changes in these learning processes in the brain of children with and without language disorders and children with autism during development have hardly been studied. In a first phase, the CBC project examined children between the ages of 5 and 12, both with and without language impairment, using comprehensive psychometric tests and functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) during learning and the processing of multisensory information. As a doctoral student, you will be responsible for the second phase of the project. You will collect longitudinal behavioral and (f)MRI data from the cohort and analyze them, particularly using a computational modeling approach, for your publication-based dissertation. You will also recruit a group of children with autism, which will be compared with the previously assessed group of children.
Deadline : Open until filled
(22) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in the Chemistry of Human-Plant Interactions 80 %
I am looking for a highly motivated and creative candidate. A formal requirement is a Master degree in any field of biology. Proficiency in English, both orally and written is essential.
The position involves significant time conducting lab work in untargeted metabolomics. Ideally, you have demonstrable skills in (or strong interest to acquire) untargeted metabolomics, bioinformatics, GIS, and big data analysis.
I offer a collaborative environment with high-quality supervision and a vibrant international team. You will have the chance to collaborate with colleagues at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Indigenous People in Colombia and Ecuador, and Prof. Laurent Bigler at the Dept. of Chemistry of the University of Zurich.
Deadline : Open until filled
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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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