Phd and Post-doctoral Positions

Department of Chemistry_ **Post-doctoral position in Supramolecular Radiochemistry** **Project Background** _in vitro_ and _in vivo_ to develop new cancer specific probes. The work involves handling human cells, radioactive materials, and (potentially) animal studies. **synthetic organic or inorganic chemistry** and must be ambitious, creative, and...

URPP Human Reproduction Reloaded | H2R_ **2 PhD positions in educational and family sociology (full doctorate) / SNF** **60 % **:The University Research Priority Program (URPP) "Human Reproduction Reloaded | H2R" explores the societal impacts and legal implications of human reproduction. This interdisciplinary positioned URPP brings together researchers from...

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...

Department for Computational Linguistics / Digital Society Initiative_ **PhD position in Multimodal Behavioral Pattern Recognition using Machine Learning** **60 % **:Become a part of cutting-edge research in person identification using AI based on behavioral biometrics at the University of Zurich. The project: As a PhD student in this project, you will be...

**Doctoral Position in Human-Centered Security & Privacy Research**: **100%, Zurich, fixed-term** **Project background** We are interested in designing, implementing and evaluating human-centred security solutions and addressing human factors in upcoming IT security-related challenges. To do so, we conduct qualitative as well as quantitative empirical user...

Department of Business Administration_ - Chair for Business and Personnel Economics_ **Assistant/Doctoral student in "Business Administration" or "Management and Economics",** **70 % **:The chair for Business and Personnel Economics at the University of Zurich together with the Swiss Leading House "Economics of Vocational and Professional Education and...

**The Competence Center Palliative Care provides special medical care for adult patients with advanced, incurable diseases. It can be helpful through all stages of illness: making medical treatment more tolerable early on and, at later stages, reducing suffering as you live with a life-threatening illness, navigating difficult treatment decisions, and...

_Institute of Mathematics_ **PhD and PostDoc Position in Numerical Analysis** **75 %**:The Computational Mathematics Group at the University of Zurich has openings for a PhD position (3+1 years) and a PostDoc position (2+1/2 years) in the field of numerical analysis of wave propagation problem and of non-conforming discretizations of flow problems. **Your...

Digital Society Initiative DSI_ **PhD Position in Digital Humanities: From Text to Image with AI** **Your responsibilities**: - Designing and implementing research methodologies - Conducting in-depth literature reviews and critical analysis of relevant research - Analyzing and interpreting research findings and communicating results through publications...

Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies_ **PhD position in behavioural ecology using experimental evolution** **80 % **:Dr. Tom Ratz from the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies of the University of Zurich is offering a fully funded 4-year PhD position to join his group. The project will aim to investigate how...

_Department of Informatics DDIS_ **Two PhD Positions** **60 %**:**_Do you want to invent the future of Democracy_**?** **_Do you think technology can help make democracies better_**?** **_Then this job ad is for you!_** **Your responsibilities**: The two Ph.D. students will work in the context of a new SNSF interdisciplinary project that will address the...

Department of Surgery and Transplantation_ **PhD student in Bariatric surgery and Obesity Research** This current PhD position is associated with a Research Plan divided in three studies. We expect that approximately 3 years will be necessary for the PhD student to finalize the data collection of the proposed studies. The final year will be required for...

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...

PhD Position in First Language Acquisition Research (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...

_Department of Informatics DDIS_ **Two PhD Positions** **80-100 %**:**_Do you want to invent the future of Democracy_**?** **_Do you think technology can help make democracies better_**?** **_Then this job ad is for you!_** **Your responsibilities**: The two Ph.D. students will work in the context of a new SNSF interdisciplinary project that will address...

Institute for Computational Science_ **PhD Position in Theoretical Cosmology** **60 % **:Applications are invited for a PhD position in Theoretical Cosmology at the Center for Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Zurich, Switzerland. **Your profile**: Applicants are expected to have a master degree in physics, astronomy, or any other...

_Department of Quantitative Biomedicine_ **PhD Position in neurodegeneration** **100 %**:Interested in a PhD position combining basic RNA biology and phase separation with translational research on neurodegenerative diseases? Join us to work in a young dynamic group focusing on motor neuron degeneration and frontotemporal dementia. Our research group at the...

Institue of Veterinary Anatomy_ **PhD student** **60 % **:The Institute of Veterinary Anatomy represents in research and teaching the macroscopic (gross) and microscopic anatomy as well as the embryology of domestic mammals. Currently, there are four research groups at the Institute, which work on research projects related to reproductive biology and...

_URPP Social Networks_ **PhD Position in Data-driven Marketing** **60 %**:The PhD position is supported by the interdisciplinary project “How individual-level choices drive collective consumer behavior in social networks”, recently approved by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). **Your responsibilities**: **Your profile**: - MSc in Business...

URPP Social Networks_ **PhD Position in Data-driven Marketing** **60 % **:The PhD position is supported by the interdisciplinary project “How individual-level choices drive collective consumer behavior in social networks”, recently approved by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). **Your profile**: - MSc in Business Administration (with a focus...