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111 fully funded PhD positions in Switzerland
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0 days left PhD in Psychology of Sustainability and Behavior Change, 100% 3 days left PhD Position (Law and/or Political Science) – Governance of Climate Extremes 3 days left PhD position: Nano Photonics with Fibre Cavities (P2605) 3 days left PhD position: Circuit quantum electrodynamics to probe strongly interacting electronic phases in atomically thin nanoelectronic devices (P2601) 3 days left PhD position: From the Origin of Life to New Materials – Nanopore Detection of Nanocluster Heterogeneity with Single-Molecule Resolution (P2604) 3 days left PhD position: Rationally engineered hydrogels to control osteogenesis via mechanoregulation (P2603) 3 days left PhD position: Targeted Radioenhancing Nanoparticles for Neuroblastoma (P2602) 3 days left PhD position: Strained Germanium Quantum-Well Transistors for Integrated Cryogenic Spin Qubit Readout (P2607) 4 days left PhD Position in Generative Modeling of Human Development and Disease 4 days left PhD-Stelle: Klinische Pädiatrische Adipositasforschung & Kardiovaskuläre Phänotypisierung 5 days left Doktorandin / Doktorand Corporate Governance 70% 6 days left Veterinary Anatomic Pathology Training Position – Internship / Residency / combined Residency & PhD
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All 111 open PhD positions in Switzerland
- PhD in Psychology of Sustainability and Behavior Change, 100%
- PhD Position (Law and/or Political Science) – Governance of Climate Extremes
- PhD position: Nano Photonics with Fibre Cavities (P2605)
- PhD position: Circuit quantum electrodynamics to probe strongly interacting electronic phases in atomically thin nanoelectronic devices (P2601)
- PhD position: From the Origin of Life to New Materials – Nanopore Detection of Nanocluster Heterogeneity with Single-Molecule Resolution (P2604)
- PhD position: Rationally engineered hydrogels to control osteogenesis via mechanoregulation (P2603)
- PhD position: Targeted Radioenhancing Nanoparticles for Neuroblastoma (P2602)
- PhD position: Strained Germanium Quantum-Well Transistors for Integrated Cryogenic Spin Qubit Readout (P2607)
- PhD Position in Generative Modeling of Human Development and Disease
- PhD-Stelle: Klinische Pädiatrische Adipositasforschung & Kardiovaskuläre Phänotypisierung
- Doktorandin / Doktorand Corporate Governance 70%
- Veterinary Anatomic Pathology Training Position – Internship / Residency / combined Residency & PhD
- PhD position in Fair4communities project for grid-friendly and resilient energy communities
- Doktorand / Doktorandin
- Doktorand/in und Assistent/in in BWL (Fachgebiet Operations Research)
- PhD-Stelle Neuropsychologie, Neuropädiatrie, Entwicklung und Rehabilitation
- Doktorand/in und Wissenschaftliche/r Assistent/in
- Doktorandin / Doktorand Risk and Compliance Management 70%
- Doktorand/in PhD – Departement Gesundheit
- PhD Position 100% – AI Governance & Regulatory Foresight (m/w/d)
- Doktorand/in und Assistent/in
- PhD-Position in Social Anthropology in the research project “Bildung: Ethnographies of Boundaries and Experiential Epistemologies in Philosophical Practice”
- Doktorand*in
- PhD Student in low-energy electron holography
- International Fully Funded PhD Positions in the Life Sciences in Switzerland
- PhD Artistic Researcher in Post-Instrumental Spatial Practice (f/m/d)
- Doktorand/in und Assistent/in
- Doktorandin / Doktorand im Bereich Banking 70%
- PhD Position 100% – AI Literacy & Regulatory Learning (m/w/d)
- Doctoral Position in Uncertainty-Aware Condition Assessment of Tunnels
- Doctoral Position in Risk-Based Inspection and Maintenance Planning of Tunnels
- PhD Candidate / Doctoral Researcher (100%)
- One PhD scholarship (for 1 year) within the Department of Ancient Civilizations at the University of Basel
- PhD Student in Translational Cancer Research, SNSF project
- PhD Student in Real-Space Quantum Geometry
- Assistenz mit Absolvieren einer Dissertation im römischen Recht
- PhD Position in Epidemiology/Digital Health: Digital Follow-up of post-Sepsis (UMZH Learn4Sepsis)
- PhD Position in Business Administration / Management & Economics with a focus on Social Influence for Social Impact
- Doctoral Researcher Position in Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- 2 PhD positions in a project about health disparities among migration-related populations in Switzerland
- Doctoral Candidate (PhD) in Social-ecological Modelling and Biodiversity Policy
- Doctoral Candidate (PhD) in Biodiversity Policy and Response Diversity
- PhD Position at the University of Zürich: Human-Centered Design of AI-Augmented Collaboration and Work
- RobotX PhD Fellowship 2027
- International Fully Funded PhD Positions in the Life Sciences
- Doktorand*in
- PhD on Conditional Generative Modelling of Local High-Impact Events under Structured Scenarios
- Doktorand:in in der Abteilung Mediennutzung & Medienwirkung (Prof. Dr. Thomas N. Friemel)
- PhD position within the Horizons project: MINARET – A Sociology of Post-Imperial Islamic Legal Cultures: Insights from Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia
- Research and Teaching Associate in Strategic Management (PhD Student) (m/f/d)
- PhD Position in Cybersecurity and Applied Cryptography (m/f/d)
- Exciting Research Opportunity: PhD Student in Intelligent Lab for High-Throughput Solar Cell Characterization
- SNF-Doktorand:in (Dr. sc. ETH Zürich) 100 % – In Architektur und Städtebau
- PhD position at the University of Basel (Switzerland): development of a single-ion optical clock
- PhD position: Conformationally Controlled Chemistry in the Gas Phase at the University of Basel (Switzerland)
- PhD opening in material science of stone conservation
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Training Network – Coupled Problems for Decarbonization in Industry and Power Generation (COMBINE)
- PhD position on engineering of machine perfusion platforms for organ and tissue culture
- Doctoral student position – Evaluating novel mineral sources for treatment of micronutrient deficiencies in humans
- PhD position in Multi-State Programmable Robotic Matter
- PhD student for High-ResolutionTime-Resolved Microstructural Evolution Under Ion Irradiation via TEM
- Doktorand:in in Rechtswissenschaften (m/w/d)
- PhD Position in Electrocatalysis and Operando Electrochemical Characterization
- PhD position in Modeling and Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems from Data
- PhD Positions in Neurotechnology: Next Generation Non-invasive Neurotechnologies & Brain Therapies
- Doctoral Position in circularly polarized attosecond pulses and chiral charge migration
- PhD Positions in Applied Macroeconomics and Political Economy
- Postdoctoral and PhD Positions in Neurotechnology: Drug/Biologics Carrier Formulation & Chemical Engineering for Focused Ultrasound-Mediated Brain Drug Delivery
- PhD opening in 3D printed stone for heritage buildings
- PhD Student in Macroeconomic Forecasting and Data Science
- PhD Position in Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning
- PhD position in cognitive neuroscience for 4 years
- Doctoral Student in Operational Decision Making with Data Science
- Doctoral position in theoretical modeling of nanocrystal growth
- Doctoral position in experimental characterization of semiconductor nanocrystals
- PhD Position in Nanomedicine: Quantitative Design of Multi-Cargo Nanoparticles for Cancer Gene Delivery
- Doctoral Position in functional oxide thin films
- Doctoral Position in topochemical tuning of layered oxides
- PhD Student in Law
- Postdoctoral Researcher – Next-Generation CAR Immune Cell Therapies Against Malignant Brain Tumors
- Doctoral Position in Experimental Ultrafast Optics and Photonics
- Doctoral Position in Customer-Facing AI in Marketing and Service
- Doctoral Position in Debris Flow Monitoring
- Doctoral Position in mechanics of frictional particle suspensions
- Anschubstipendium Doktoratsprogramm "Recht im Wandel" 1
- Doctoral Position in neutral-atom quantum computing
- Doctoral Position in Mid-Infrared Integrated Photonics and Optical Sensing
- Doctoral Positions in Robot Learning and Soft, Musculoskeletal, and Biohybrid Robotics
- Two PhD Positions in Second Language Acquisition / Study Abroad Research (100%)
- Doctoral Position in solid-state transformer development, with a focus on high-power medium-frequency transformers
- PhD student in the synthesis of polymeric materials
- PhD Position on Nanozyme-based coating for antimicrobial implants
- Doctoral Student in High-throughput Analysis of Protein-Protein Interactions
- Doctoral Student in Neuromotor Interfaces for Dexterous Robot Teleoperation (multimodal egocentric vision + EMG)
- PhD Researcher - PDTx
- Doctoral Student on impacts of climate and hydrological extremes on water quality
- Doctoral Position in Lower-Field Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Doctoral Student in Computational Chemistry
- PhD position titled: Human heat stress management in various applications
- PhD on Conditional Generative Modelling of Local High-Impact Events under Structured Scenarios
- Doctoral Position in contact mechanics of architected interfaces
- PhD position in the development of life-like materials that learn, remember, and forget for use in soft robotics
- Doctoral Position in sparse reconstruction of virtual histology images
- PhD position: Multi-scale Modelling and Experimental Assessment of Volumetrically Prestressed Concrete
- PhD Position in Atmospheric Chemistry
- Doctoral Position for Synthetic Biology-Inspired Therapies
- Doctoral Position in Advanced Bioelectronic & Electrical Conversion Research
- Doktorand:in
- Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in / Doktorand:in im Bereich AI Strategie, Scaling und Wertschöpfung im Zeitalter von Agentic AI von Organisationen (m/w/d)
- Fully Funded PhD and MD-PhD positions
- PhD candidate / Research Associate in Asset Management (m/f/d)
Institutions currently hiring in Switzerland
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