Two PhD positions in political science 100%, Zurich, fixed-term

Doctoral researcher (PhD Position) in Behavioural Science / Psychology: Mental Resilience in the Digital Age **100%, Zurich, fixed-term** **Project background** **Job description** **Responsibilities include, but are not limited to**: - Developing and testing digital intervention(s) using novel technologies - Collaborating with experts and industry...

Geographisches Institut_ **PhD Position: Qualitative study on relational values of birdwatchers** The PhD project is integrated into the interdisciplinary research project 'People's Place in Nature', in which we study how people value nature in personal human-nature relationships, and how we can draw on such relationships for ethical arguments in favor of...

Dynamic and Distributed Information System (DDIS) Group_ **A PhD student position in AI (including chat-bots and large language models) and Democracy** **80-100 % **:Are you interested in inventing new AIs that will help change how democracy work? Do you want to democratize politics with chat-bots and large language models? Are you interested in developing...

PhD Position: Personalized Prediction and Prevention of Dropouts in Digital Biomarker Studies **100%, Zurich, fixed-term** Exciting technological advances in wearables and biosensors rapidly transform how we monitor and manage metabolic health beyond finger pricking and blood picks. Instead, passive, wrist-worn data streams hold massive potential to...

Your responsibilities Rock glaciers are amongst the most emblematic permafrost-related landforms of the mountain cryosphere. These ice-rich landforms are substantially affected by climate change and can accelerate dramatically when permafrost temperatures and water contents rise. At present, the state of rock glaciers in the Swiss Alps is largely...

**Doctoral student in energy policy analysis**: **80%-100%, Zurich**, fixed-term The **Climate Policy Lab **seeks to hire a PhD student, commencing as soon as possible. We are part of the Institute for Environmental Decisions, within the Department for Environmental Systems Science. The PhD student would work as part of a team within our lab, while also...

Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich_ **PhD student** **What we offer**: We offer a highly interdisciplinary setting with unique state-of-the-art methodologies in well - equipped research labs. There will be ample opportunities to collaborate between the different labs, including the possibility to also work at the human work package of this translational...

Department of Informatics_ **PhD Position in the Intersection of Data Science and Statistical Development of Social Modeling** **100 % **:The Social Computing Group at the University of Zurich, led by Prof. Aniko Hannak, will be hosting the four-year SNF Ambizione project awarded to Dr. Zachary Roman beginning September 1st, 2024. The project titled...

Department of Political Science_ **Student Assistant / Hilfsassistent*in** **Your responsibilities**: The position mainly supports a study in collaboration with the team of Prof. Nils Weidmann (University of Konstanz) that uses large-scale text analysis to map how ethnic groups strategically communicate salient issues on social media. Data collection has...

Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics at the University of Zurich_ **PhD position in computational psychiatry** **Your profile**: - Masters degree in a relevant field including computational linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, computer science - Strong interest in computational...

PhD position in First Language Acquisition (80 %) The NCCR is a Swiss National Center of Competence in Research with the goal of creating a new discipline, Evolutionary Language Science, that targets the past and future of language. The center consists of leading scientists from traditionally separated academic domains, which allows us to harvest the...

Department of Physiology_ **PhD student position: Molecular and functional identification of basolateral phosphate transporter(s)** **100 % **:The project is located at the Institute of Physiology (group C.A. Wagner). The PhD is embedded into the PhD program “Biomedicine” under the umbrella of the Life Science Graduate School Zurich. **Your...

Division of Immunology at Vetsuisse-Faculty_ **PhD Position in Immunology** **60 % **:The Leibundgut-lab studies the interaction between the immune system and commensal fungi. As part of the microbiota, fungi colonize the skin, similarly to bacteria, but they remain much less well studied. IL-17 immunity is key for the maintenance of fungal and tissue...

Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, is an internationally networked aquatic research institute within the ETH Domain (Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology). Eawag conducts research, education and expert consulting to achieve the dual goals of meeting direct human needs for water and maintaining the function and integrity...

Department of Geography_ **PhD position in Geomorphology** **100 %**: - on_ **Reconstructing and analysing the past evolution of rock glaciers in Switzerland** - within the project RoDynAlpS:_ - Rock glacier dynamics in the Swiss Alps: evolution and drivers at multiple spatio-temporal scales_ **Project context** With the support of the Swiss National...

Institute of Medical Virology_ **Postdoctoral Position in Computational HIV Vaccinology** **100 % **:The Institute of Medical Virology (IMV) is part of both the medical and science faculties at the University of Zurich. Our institute comprises diagnostic and research laboratories and educates medical and biology students. We are seeking a highly motivated...

Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, is an internationally networked aquatic research institute within the ETH Domain (Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology). Eawag conducts research, education and expert consulting to achieve the dual goals of meeting direct human needs for water and maintaining the function and integrity...

Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics at the University of Zurich_ **PhD position in psychiatric neuroimaging** **60 % **:Our lab is interested in the variability in psychotic disorders as reflected in brain circuits and behavior. We design and implement multimodal paradigms (e.g. combined fMRI and speech production) and use methods such...

Institute of Veterinary Anatomy, Vetsuisse Faculty of the University of Zurich_ **PhD / Doctoral Position** The project is SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation) funded. The position is available for 3 years and will research into molecular mechanisms of hypoxia and HIF1α-mediated responses in steroidogenic cells (granulosa cells, Leydig cells and...

**Department of Comparative Language Science** PhD Position in First Language Acquisition - Gurung Project 80 % The NCCR is a Swiss National Center of Competence in Research with the goal of creating a new discipline, Evolutionary Language Science, that targets the past and future of language. The center consists of leading scientists from traditionally...