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: Doctoral Student in Food Biochemistry
Research in the Laboratory of Food Biochemistry deals with various chemical and analytical aspects of healthy and sustainable foods and food systems. Individual research projects are centred around dietary fibres and associated small molecules, their occurrence, interactions, and other properties in foods during processing, storage and digestion. Furthermore, the group has a number of ongoing projects on fermentation, as well as assessment and optimization of new raw materials for food use. The work includes developing improved analytical methods for the analysis of these components and their reactions.
The group is looking for a two doctoral student to work on a projects related to the exploration, chemical characterization and optimization of grain-based foods and food ingredients for potential health effects, improved sensory properties and sustainable use of raw materials. The project details are partially malleable to match the experience and interests of the candidates.
Deadline : Open until filled
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doktorand:in im Bereich Risikokommunikation (m/w/d)
Der SED ist massgeblich an der Entwicklung einer Erdbebenfrühwarnungs-App beteiligt, die bereits in mehreren Ländern im Einsatz ist. Im Hinblick auf eine Einführung der App in der Schweiz und in anderen europäischen Ländern begleitest du die Weiterentwicklung der App und untersuchst, wie verschiedene Nutzergruppen diese wahrnehmen, verwenden und bewerten. Zusätzlich bist du in ein Projekt eingebunden, das unterschiedliche Kommunikationsformate entwickelt und untersucht, um Erdbebenwahrscheinlichkeiten verständlich darzustellen.
In beiden Projekten arbeitest du interdisziplinär – eng vernetzt mit Expert:innen aus verschiedenen Fachbereichen innerhalb des SED sowie mit Personen aus anderen Institutionen. Du hast so die Möglichkeit, Theorie und Praxis miteinander zu verbinden und deine Forschung direkt in reale Anwendungen einfliessen zu lassen.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral Student – Enhancing Building Efficiency through Edge-based Machine Learning and Control
Modern buildings operate thanks to a complex network of sensors and control systems at various levels, that manage tasks such as air quality control, temperature regulation, and zone-specific environmental conditioning. Advanced control methods can significantly improve building efficiency and reduce emissions. A significant challenge is the limited computational capability of edge devices in buildings coupled with the complex interconnections and time varying dynamics. Addressing these challenges requires the development of the next generation of efficient data-driven methods that can adapt to changing external conditions and continuously learn from data in a distributed way. Coupling of new theory with effective implementation strategies have the potential to make a lasting impact on building efficiency through sustainable automation.
Deadline : 15 October 2025
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: RobotX PhD Program
The affiliated research groups of the center offer a broad spectrum of research topics in robotics, including but not limited to:
- Soft and Musculoskeletal Robotics: Designing and fabricating bioinspired robots using compliant materials for adaptable and safe interactions in an unstructured world.
- Robotic Locomotion and Manipulation: Creating innovative solutions for legged robots and robotic manipulators to enhance mobility and interaction in complex terrains.
- Biohybrid Robots: Creating robots from living cells, tissues, and synthetic materials that are powered by chemical energy and can interact with and reason about the world.
- Perception and Computer Vision: Advancing techniques in 3D modeling, object recognition, and environment perception to improve robotic sensing capabilities.
- Human-Robot Interaction: Investigating sensory-motor actions and interactions between humans and machines to enable or enhance supportive or cooperative tasks.
- Computational Design and Fabrication: Leveraging numerical simulations, computational methods, and surrogate machine learning to create bioinspired and efficient robotic designs.
- Reinforcement Learning and Machine Learning: Applying data-driven approaches to enable robots to learn and adapt to new tasks and environments.
- Autonomous Vehicles and Transportation Networks: Focusing on planning and control strategies for autonomous cars and integrated transportation systems.
- Motion Planning and Control: Developing advanced algorithms for autonomous navigation, control, and decision-making in dynamic environments.
- Safety-Critical Robotic Systems: Ensuring high performance and reliability in robots operating in uncertain and variable conditions, particularly in systems involving human interactions.
Deadline : Open until filled
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Immunology & Biomaterials
We invite applications for a fully funded PhD position in the Zindel Lab (Department of Biology, ETH Zurich), in close collaboration with the Tibbitt Lab (Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich). This interdisciplinary project investigates how the immune system responds to implanted materials, aiming to develop strategies that improve tissue integration and patient outcomes. The work will combine in vivo biology and advanced imaging with materials science and polymer engineering.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Doctoral Student Position – Climate and Agronomic Impacts of Biogas Slurry
The resulting product from the biodigestion process is biogas effluent or slurry, which is a nutrient-rich liquid that can be used by farmers to improve crop yields. However, the slurry poses climate challenges due to its continued release of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides (NOx), and methane. The current climate mitigation models for biogas offsets do not currently account for continued release from the slurry. Furthermore, the effluent is bulky, difficult to apply, and unfamiliar to farmers. The guiding research questions for this work are:
- What are the current practices and barriers to slurry utilization among farmers participating in the MDBP? (Quantitative and qualitative analysis)
- What is the methane potential related of stockpiled slurry and how do these values impact the CO2-equivalent calculations for the reactors? (Quantitative assessment and modeling)
- What are the crop and soil-related impacts of slurry use in agriculture? (Field trials at research stations and farmer level)
Deadline : 2025-10-13
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD on interrogating chirality at the nanoscale
This project aims to develop novel methods for studying chirality across different length scales and spectral ranges to extract key structural information that goes beyond enantiomer discrimination. You will work on both developing nanophotonic systems that enhance light chiral matter interactions and novel imaging systems that, when combined, unlock new understanding on chirality.
Deadline : Open until filled
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in AI and Strategy
The Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation provides an inspiring, team-based research environment with a dynamic and international group of researchers. Our team has a strong track record of publishing in leading journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Harvard Business Review.
You are expected to produce a dissertation project typically consisting of at least three high-quality papers intended for top-tier journals. The position offers close supervision and collaboration with leading faculty and senior researchers, as well as access to ETH Zurich’s excellent research infrastructure and strong international network of collaborators.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Environmental Microbiology
The PhD candidate will conduct research in re-wetted peatlands to characterize changes in microbial communities and the underlying molecular mechanisms. The project includes fieldwork, metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analyses, microcosm experiments, and isolation experiments.
Deadline : Open until filled
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position: Development of catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation to higher alcohols
Specifically, this project combines high-throughput experimentation, synthesis of model catalysts, operando characterization, and molecular modelling to identify novel catalyst families and develop structure-performance relationships for catalysts for the hydrogenation of CO2 to higher alcohols (such as ethanol). The role of this specific PhD position will be the development of model catalysts and their operando characterization using X-ray absorption spectroscopy, X-ray total scattering, and infrared spectroscopy to identify the catalytically active sites/motifs.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD student in Human-Computer Interaction: Adaptive Systems in Mixed Reality (UI + LLMs)
We have an open PhD position in Human-Computer Interaction with a focus on intelligent and adaptive systems for Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, and Extended Reality. This research builds on recent work on optimization-based workspace adaptation in VR/MR and aims to advance interactive systems that dynamically adapt to user behavior, preferences, and intent to optimally support productivity workflows, guided by emerging large language models.
Candidates ideally have a background in Computer Science and prior experience with human-computer interaction (e.g., through courses or projects), including any of designing interaction techniques, building interactive systems (e.g., Unity3D), or running and analyzing user studies.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(12) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD and Postdoc Positions for Supramolecular Catalytic Systems
PhD and postdoctoral projects will combine AI-assisted supramolecular chemistry, biocatalytic engineering and advanced molecular design to develop synthetic supramolecular nanocatalysts, enabling closed-loop programming of human cells for efficient real-time in situ diagnosis and therapeutic intervention. There will also be opportunities to develop novel supramolecular implants and nanodevices, create control interfaces that seamlessly integrate with biological systems, and explore platform technologies for broader biomedical applications. Projects will be highly interdisciplinary, fostering close collaboration with molecular biologists, bioengineers, electrical engineers and clinical researchers to accelerate translation into clinically relevant therapies.
Deadline : Open until filled
(13) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD candidate for developing concepts for active/passive EMI/input filters and tools for filter design optimisation
We are looking for highly motivated individuals with an outstanding academic background who are interested in pursuing a PhD in the important and multidisciplinary research area of EMI/input filters for power electronic converter systems as for example 3-phase rectifiers or converters in electric vehicles. EMI and/or input filters are key elements for reducing the noise emission and harmonics, so that the converters meet the relevant standards/grid codes. However, they substantially increase the size of the converter and also reduce the system efficiency. Furthermore, the filter can impair the system stability. The rapid development of new semiconductors (e.g. wide bandgap SiC MOSFETs/GaN HEMTs) results in constantly increasing switching speeds, so that more noise at higher frequencies is emitted and the parasitic elements of the filter as well as the layout have a larger impact on the achievable filter attenuation. Minimising the filter volume exacerbates this issue, since it typically leads to increased parasitic electric and magnetic coupling between the different filter elements. This makes the filter design even more challenging. To address this challenge, you will first investigate new concepts for passive as well as active filter concepts that allow to minimise the filter volume and the losses. In a second step, you will develop novel filter design procedures that consider not only the filter attenuation, but also the HF losses, the temperature distribution and the impact of the filter on controller stability. For validating the new concepts as well as the design procedure you will build prototype systems and perform comprehensive measurements in the fully equipped HPE laboratory.
The new filter design procedure should be integrated in a computationally efficient way into optimisation procedures for power electronic converters and are essential for achieving outstanding system efficiencies and power densities as well as for gaining a competitive edge. This project is part of an ongoing wider modelling framework development at HPE and also offers the opportunity to collaborate with other PhD candidates.
Deadline : Open until filled
(14) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD and Postdoc Positions in Advanced Bioelectronic & Electrical Conversion Research
PhD and postdoctoral projects will combine catalyst engineering, computational simulation, bioelectrode device fabrication, and electrical engineering to develop bioelectronic interfaces enabling closed-loop programming of cellular behaviour and real-time monitoring of metabolic activity. There will also be opportunities to design novel bioelectronic implants and develop specialized control software.
Deadline : Open until filled
(15) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD and Postdoc Positions for Synthetic Biology-Inspired Therapies
PhD and postdoctoral projects will combine molecular engineering, cell programming, and chemical–biological interfacing to engineer human cells using synthetic gene circuits and biosensing platforms, develop novel biosensing systems for real-time monitoring of cellular states, create genetic architectures for precise therapeutic protein regulation, and translate these research advances into programmable cellular implant prototypes. Projects will be highly interdisciplinary, fostering close collaboration with molecular biologists, bioengineers, and clinical researchers to accelerate translation into clinically relevant therapies.
Deadline : Open until filled
(16) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in the Distributed Computing Group
In our group, we try to apply and unite the approaches and techniques of theory and practice. Some members of our group focus on algorithms and mathematical proofs, some on system design and building. As a new member of the group, you are supposed to contribute to research activities in the group and gradually build your 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.
Deadline : Open until filled
(17) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position: Learning-based Input Detection from Electromyography (EMG) Signals for Augmented Reality
Emerging AR/VR interfaces are limited by the input modalities they rely on and existing input devices have a limited bandwidth: pointing, clicking, typing. The future of Augmented and Mixed Reality systems promises much broader bandwidth for sensing input from a user through neural interfaces.
In this project, we aim to explore EMG-based signal processing to detect input and user intent. The purpose of this is to support emerging AR platforms (such as Meta Orion’s EMG neural wristband). We will explore how sensed differential signals can be leveraged for input, interaction, and adaptive control in MR environments. Central challenges include signal denoising, signal processing, robust event detection, and modeling shifts across sessions and users.
Deadline : Open until filled
(18) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD student for analysis of phase transformations in metallic solid glasses at the atomic level
The successful candidate will utilize advanced analytical and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM)—including potential collaborations at the Jülich Research Center—to directly observe structural changes at the atomic level. Fast scanning calorimetry and synchrotron radiation techniques will be employed to probe the kinetics and thermodynamics of phase transformations. The project will explore how temperature, mechanical strain, and irradiation induce changes in atomic structure and dynamics. The influence of atomic arrangement on stability, transformation kinetics, and crystallization will be systematically investigated.
Deadline : Open until filled
(19) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD position in Water Disinfection Chemistry
Applications are invited for a PhD position on Water Disinfection Chemistry in the Environmental Chemistry group at ETH Zurich. The project focuses on the recent discovery of chloronitramide, a disinfection byproduct formed during the decomposition of chloramines and will be supervised by Dr. Juliana Laszakovits in the group of Prof. Kristopher McNeill.
Chloronitramide was recently reported by our group to be a novel disinfection byproduct. It is formed through the autodecomposition of chloramine, a widely used drinking water disinfectant and was found in all tested chloraminated drinking water samples at levels between 1 and 180 ppb. There are no previous reports of chloronitramide and accordingly nothing is known about its toxicity or occurrence.
The overarching goals of this project are (1) to improve monitoring efforts by developing widely accessible analytical approaches to quantify chloronitramide and (2) to investigate the impact of common water quality parameters on chloronitramide formation mechanisms during drinking water treatment. The results of this work are expected to inform risk assessment and regulation of chloronitramide and to guide water treatment utilities in managing its formation.
Deadline : Open until filled
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(20) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: Ph.D. position in atmospheric biogeochemical modeling
We are seeking a highly motivated and curious Ph.D. student to join the Inorganic Environmental Geochemistry group at ETH Zurich and Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, an interdisciplinary team of researchers studying biogeochemical cycles of trace elements across different environmental compartments. Our mission is to understand and predict environmental distributions of health-impacting trace elements to prevent health hazards, today and in the future. The position is offered in the framework of a recently funded SNSF project with the goal to improve our understanding of the atmospheric cycling of the essential micronutrient selenium (Se) by integrating measurements and a computational atmospheric Se model. Knowing the chemical forms (speciation) of Se in atmospheric wet and dry deposition fluxes is essential because it determines its fate in surface environments, i.e., its mobility, bioavailability for plant uptake and, ultimately, its health impact. This knowledge is key for developing sustainable management strategies to ensure adequate and safe levels of Se, in agricultural systems as well as in other ecosystems.
Deadline : Open until filled
(21) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position – 3D Cell-Based Tissue Simulation Framework
Understanding tissue development through experiments alone is challenging. Cell-based simulations are powerful tools to study how individual cells contribute to tissue structure and dynamics.
The Iber group has developed SimuCell3D, an efficient and scalable 3D tissue simulation framework in C++, that enables the simulation of tissues with up to 100,000 deformable cells—including extracellular matrix and cavities—within a single day [Runser, et al., 2024, Nat Comput Sci 4, 299–309 (2024); Tweetorial].
SimuCell3D represents a major step forward in simulating tissue mechanics, cell polarization, and morphogenetic processes.
Deadline : Open until filled
(22) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Position in Decentralized Resource-Constrained Machine Learning
The Distributed Computing group at ETH Zurich is looking for a PhD candidate to work on the SNSF Ambizione 2023 project “eDIAMOND: Efficient Distributed Intelligent Applications in Mobile-Network Dynamics”. The eDIAMOND project aims at developing new methods and systems for decentralized and distributed data-driven methods for Federated Learning on resource-constrained networks. Your research within the project will contribute towards your doctoral degree at ETH Zurich. You will be supervised by Prof. Dr. Roger Wattenhofer and Dr. Antonio Di Maio.
You will be entrusted with designing, developing, and evaluating data-driven methods, algorithms, and systems for three independent but related research directions in the eDIAMOND project, namely:
- Distributing model training and inference over a network of resource-constrained devices.
- Online, context-aware adaptation of Federated Neural Network Architectures based on the available system resources (e.g., communication, computation, energy).
- Communication-efficient knowledge exchange among networked federated large models.
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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