If you’re a Masters degree holder and seeking Fully Funded PhD Programs, ETH Zürich, Switzerland has several online applications open for PhD programs. Explore the PhD opportunities across diverse research areas and submit your application soon.
1. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Designing and Optimizing Materials for Bacterial-Based Sustainable Biopesticide Delivery Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
The heavy use of pesticides and fertilizers in agriculture is crucial for the food supply. However, this practice leads to significant environmental and health issues, including poisoning, environmental degradation, and the development of insecticide resistance. EU policies and the UN Sustainable Development Goals advocate for safer, more sustainable alternatives like biopesticides. However, large-scale implementation of these alternatives faces challenges related to formulation and efficacy.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular Biology & Biophysics
Summary of PhD Program:
The Wieczorek Lab at the Institute of Molecular Biology & Biophysics at ETH Zurich investigates the physical principles underlying the self-assembly of complex intracellular structures from biomolecules. The group uses the microtubule cytoskeleton as a model system. We apply state-of-the-art methods in structural biology, in vitro biochemical reconstitutions, and single molecule biophysics to understand how diverse multi-microtubule assemblies form from a common tubulin “building block”. The results of our work are important for understanding the molecular basis of diseases such as cancer and neurodegeneration, which are often directly linked to defects in microtubule network assembly.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in nonlinear laser spectroscopy on novel types of ferroic order and domains
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project unites our internationally leading expertise in nonlinear laser spectroscopy and ferroic materials. Its aim is to explore novel manifestations of ferroic order (like advanced multiferroicity, altermagnetism, hidden states) with the use of class-IV laser systems. The properties of the domains these novel ferroics exhibit is of particular interest as this aspect is little studied and offers plenty of room for exciting physics and groundbreaking discoveries.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Respiratory dysfunction – mechanisms and influence on performance and quality of life
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, you will design studies in which you will conduct both experimental investigations in the laboratory and telemonitored training. The aim of the studies is to improve the respiratory regulation and performance reduction of patients through specific training, as well as to better understand changes in respiratory muscle function that occur in intensive care patients using various interventions. You will work independently and in a team and will also take responsibility for the training of master’s students in the laboratory. You will present your results at meetings and conferences and publish them in international journals.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Investigation of the effects of sporting activities in patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
Summary of PhD Program:
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is a rare heart disease caused by fatty or fibrotic infiltration of the heart muscle. Since intensive physical activity is associated with increased acute risks and a worse prognosis, patients are advised to avoid sporting activities. The aim of the current National Fund project, in collaboration with ARVC specialists from the Cardiology Department of the University Hospital of Zurich, is to better understand which physical activities ARVC patients can perform with minimal risks.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in On-Chip Separation of Proteins for Single-Cell Proteome Profiling
Summary of PhD Program:
The main objective of the ERC funded project is to pioneer research direction of in situ cell profiling by identification of proteins, their abundance and temporal distribution at a single-cell level using nanopore sensors. The approach is the first of its type that can potentially address important biology questions at single-cell level and with a much higher temporal and spatial sensitivity compared to other existing methods.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in self-emerging architected materials
Summary of PhD Program:
The Chair of Computational Mechanics of Building Materials (CMBM) aims to understand and predict mechanical failure in materials and structures. By combining numerical modeling tools with tailored laboratory experiments and theoretical models, we create a holistic perspective on mechanical failure, bridging the gap between material behavior at the small scale and principles governing catastrophic failure at the system level. CMBM is a highly interdisciplinary and international research team.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in experimental fluid dynamics, shock-wave physics and X-ray imaging for biomedical applications
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims at critically advancing our understanding of the medical cavitation ablation mechanisms actuated through different acoustic drivers, in particular with lithotripter shock waves, through cutting-edge experiments vastly beyond the state of the art. Building on our recent and planned technological developments at the associated spatio-temporal scales using a synchrotron X-ray source for ultrafast X-ray phase contrast imaging and X-ray microtomography, and on our expertise in cavitation physics, the aims are to quantify damage on objects and tissue specifically caused by cavitation activity and to achieve improved control of cavitation activity in medical therapies.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in developing physics-based loss models of advanced magnetic devices for future highly efficient drive and converter systems
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for outstanding, highly motivated individuals interested in pursuing a PhD in the multidisciplinary and important research area of modelling and optimisation of magnetic components and electric machines. Highly efficient as well as compact transformers and chokes are critical elements in most power electronic systems, because these components drastically influence the overall efficiency and power density of converters. Similarly, in electric drive systems the overall efficiency and power density are significantly affected by the iron and winding losses in the machine. In order to pace with the rapid development of semiconductors (e.g. wide bandgap SiC MOSFETs/GaN HEMTs), advanced concepts for magnetic devices and in particular comprehensive models of the core losses should be developed by you.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Drug resistance evolution and Pharmacodynamic data analysis
Summary of PhD Program:
The project’s main objective is to extract and analyze large amounts of pharmacodynamic data from various sources and design a user-friendly database. Through advanced data mining and machine learning techniques, we will extract valuable data from databases, data repositories and non-strucured data sources (e.g. scientific articles and supplementary materials) across various disciplines, and identify the patterns in trends in these data.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mathematical modelling of drug resistance evolution
Summary of PhD Program:
The main objective of the project is to develop a polygenic model to investigate the mechanisms underlying drug resistance evolution, focusing in particular on ploidy, reproductive mode and lifestyle. The target organisms will be bacteria, fungi and parasitic worms. While the position is theoretical, the student is encouraged and expected to collaborate with our experimental collaborators.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in sensitivity of past warm climates to CO2
Summary of PhD Program:
In this PhD project, you will develop new records of atmospheric CO2 and of changes in the surface ocean temperature. CO2 records will be produced from carbon isotopic fractionation in alkenone biomarkers. New temperature records will be developed from the clumped isotopic composition of coccoliths, calcite plates produced by a family of phytoplankton. Within the project, the PhD student will conduct several short mobility research stays with our project partners at Purdue University in the USA, in order to develop and refine proxy system models and compare the new data with results from climate models, and become familiar with climate modeling.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Practical Philosophy
Summary of PhD Program:
The ETH Professorship for Practical Philosophy in the department for Humanities, Social and Political sciences offers a PhD positions in practical philosophy (Prof. Dr. Dr. Nadia Mazouz). The position is for up to four years and starting October 1st, 2024 or by arrangement. Research at the professorship centrally addresses today’s challenges to theory building in ethics and political philosophy – specifically epistemic, cultural and ethical pluralism. These are explored theoretically, but also in different fields of applied ethics, i.e. TechEthics and Bioethics.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Hybrid Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Ge semiconductor QDs and high impedance superconducting resonators
Summary of PhD Program:
The project’s primary focus is on exploring fast and high-fidelity readout techniques for quantum dot spin qubits, making use of their coupling to high-impedance resonators. Quantum dots and hole spin qubits in planar Germanium offer unique advantages for quantum information processing, including longer coherence times and all electrical-based manipulation. Our groups are also currently developing novel parametric amplifiers which will be an essential component to maximize the readout performance.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Designing intelligence in battery-less micromechanical structures
Summary of PhD Program:
Complex computations will require divisions into subtasks. Therefore, two distinct yet interconnected projects are proposed:
Project 1: Mechanical harvesting of ambient vibrations. The student will design micro-mechanical systems that can harvest stochastic (random) ambient vibrations and convert the resulting energy in the oscillation of a resonator or in the deformation of an elastic structure.
Project 2: Reprogrammable micromechanical computers. The student will design micro-mechanical structures capable of processing information by using nonlinear phenomena such as buckling and instabilities.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in combustion instabilities of hydrogen flames
Summary of PhD Program:
This research work will combine experiments and modeling. The experimental research will be performed on a lab-scale, high-pressure test facility. Experimental techniques for fluid mechanics, combustion and acoustics will be used, including laser-based optical diagnostics. The modeling work will consist in the development of analytical low-order models of the combustion instabilities, and in large eddy simulations of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
