Phd Position

The Division of Molecular and Systems Toxicology at the University of Basel is offering a PhD student position to investigate substances altering corticosteroid hormone action.Your positionCorticosteroids regulate essential physiological processes. Substances altering their production, cell-specific metabolism or receptor-mediated signalling can aggravate...

The Department of Biomedicine is a joint effort between the University of Basel and the University Hospitals Basel. It unites basic and clinical scientists to advance our understanding of health and disease and to develop pioneering therapies benefiting the lives of patients in areas of unmet need.With more than 70 research groups and 900 employees, the...

Within a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) supported project the Department of Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Epidemiology, University of Basel (Prof. Dr. Roselind Lieb), is looking for applicants for a PhD position (100%).The position is limited to three years and the earliest starting date is September 1st, 2023.Your positionThe project: The...

The Center for Social Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Basel is recruiting for a full-time PhD position (100%) starting January 1st, 2024, or later. The PhD position is part of an exciting research project on interpersonal and generalized trust funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The project uses experiments and...

Your positionThe establishment of firm causal links between societies and climatic fluctuations requires detailed and accurate archaeological/historical and climatic/environmental datasets. As team member of the recently funded ERC Consolidator Grant SSE1K "Science, society and environmental change in the first millennium CE" (to Prof. Helen Foxhall Forbes),...

PhD position in Multimedia Retrieval (100%) for four yearsThe position is to be filled at the earliest possible date. The advertisement will remain open until the position is taken.Context: vitrivr is an open source full-stack content-based multimedia retrieval system with a focus on video. Its modular architecture makes it easy to also search audio, images,...

The position will be anchored in the NIP-Q-UPGRADE program, commissioned by the Federal Quality Commission to ARTISET with the industry association CURAVIVA and senesuisse and implemented in collaboration with the INS, the Institut et Haute École de la Santé La Source and Scualo universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana. The main aims of the...

The Neuropharmacology group, led by Prof. Linda Simmler, investigates the mode of action of psychoactive substances pre-clinically. The research focus is on hallucinogenic compounds (psychedelics) that are under evaluation for clinical use in psychiatric disorders. We aim to understand their effects on neuronal circuits and synapses, and link to behavior and...

The Clinical Neuroimmunology Laboratory in the Department of Biomedicine of the University of Basel/University Hospital Basel, headed by Professor Tobias Derfuss, is planning to open a PhD position in early- to mid-2023. Research in the lab is aimed at understanding the causes and pathomechanisms of autoimmune diseases affecting the nervous system,...

PhD Position / Assistantship in Social Anthropology (60%)Date of appointment August 1, 2024The Program of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland, is searching for a doctoral fellow with a strong training in - and innovative ideas for - the theory and methods of socio-cultural anthropology. Candidates' research and teaching must focus on...

PhD Position / Assistantship in Social Anthropology (60%)Date of appointment August 1, 2024The Program of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland, is searching for a doctoral fellow with a strong training in - and innovative ideas for - the theory and methods of socio-cultural anthropology. Candidates' research and teaching must focus on...

The Chair of Environmental Economics, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Frank Krysiak, at the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Basel invites applications for a PhD position. For the first two years, the position is connected to an ongoing research project on e-bike sharing. But the successful candidate is also encouraged to pursue...

Your positionOur knowledge of climate variability in SW Asia remained fragmentary due to scarcity of precisely-dated and highly-resolved paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. One of the main goals of SNSF Sinergia project MITRA is to develop such records. Both PhD-students will investigate speleothems (stalagmites and flowstones) from several...

PhD student position in Computer VisionThe Department of Ancient Civilizations of the University of Basel invites applications for one PhD student position (100%) in Computer Vision for 3 years on the topic of offline to online conversion of historical handwritings within the SNSF-funded research project 'Egrapsa: Retracing the evolutions of handwritings in...

Your position The successful candidate will conduct high-level scientific research towards a PhD, contribute to an ongoing research project on e-bike sharing, and develop and pursue his/her own research agenda. Apart from the e-bike sharing project (POTEBS, together with HSLU), the research group is connected to larger research collaborations in the...

Applications are invited for two PhD position working closely together in soil erosion research in the research group Environmental Geosciences, Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel with interest in soil erosion modelling as well as phosphorous export from soils due to soil erosion.Your positionYour profileWe offer youAppointments...

The Biozentrum of the University of Basel is one of the leading life science institutes in the world. It consists of 32 groups and 500 employees that research how molecules and cells create life, spanning the scale from atom to organism. Founded in 1971, the Biozentrum has been the birthplace of many fundamental discoveries in biology and medicine, spawning...

Your positionThe position is funded for 4 years with an initial contract for 1 year. At the end of the first year, an assessment based on performance and a detailed research proposal for the PhD is made. In case of a positive assessment the contract is expanded to 4 years.Your profile Applicants should hold a Master's degree in a field, such as economics,...

The Biomolecular Nano-Dynamics group at the Dept. of Chemistry, University of Basel is looking for a highly talented and motivated PhD student in biophysical chemistry to join our team for the study of protein dynamics and chaperone function using novel techniques, such as single-molecule fluorescence/FRET and unnatural amino-acid labelling.Your positionThis...

Your positionYour profile Master's degree in Physics or related area Experience in Matlab/Python and C++ Experience in MRI may be advantageous but is not required Strong motivation and commitment to research Fluency in EnglishWe offer you Interesting and challenging job with high degree of selfresponsibility in a professional environment with flexible...