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1. Postdoctoral position for the Development of Protease-Responsive Diagnostic Devices

Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:

Proteases are an important class of enzymes, that represent approx. 10% of all current drug targets. They are critical actors in health and disease and can provide insights into the state and progression of inflammatory conditions, cancer, and other ailments. Detection of protease activity in real-time and at the point-of-care could serve as a powerful clinical tool to inform application, monitoring, and adjustment of treatments. You will work in close collaboration with engineers, biologists, and clinician scientists to inform and support the development of different micro-and nanoagents for monitoring proteases. These agents contain custom-tailored peptide substrates and respond with detectable change of a magnetic or acoustic signal upon cleavage. Expanding upon a selection of target proteases, you will also perform a comprehensive proteomic study of patient samples to identify protease profiles and subsequently design suitable corresponding peptide. As one concrete clinical application, the project aims to lay the foundation for real-time in vivo assessment of inflammation in patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis.

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2. Postdoc Position in Large-Scale Traffic Simulation and Swarm Intelligence for Smart Cities

Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:

You would support and/or contribute to an ambitious international research project called the Dit4Tram project, which is based on large-scale agent-based mobility modelling, using a distributed control and federated learning approach, utilizing principles of self-organization and collective intelligence. The candidate shall be substantially contributing to and co-leading some of the project tasks. For Postdocs, the initial contract would usually last for 2 years and maybe later extended.

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3. Postdoc position in Urban Data and Modeling Science

Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:

The project “Comparative Ecology of Cities: Understanding Patterns, Processes and Properties of Cities to Improve Urban Conditions” is centred on the proposition that urban pattern-process-function relationships provide valuable knowledge to advance the science of urban planning. The project builds upon emerging theoretical and empirical evidence that patterns of human settlement systems (urban patterns) shape social and ecological processes (urban processes), and such processes, in turn, dictate the key demands of urban living such as social relations, mobility, economic exchanges, biophysical environment, ecological conditions, etc. (urban functions). The project will investigate such pattern-process-function relationships across several cities to develop generalizations that can be used as urban planning and design principles to guide sustainable urban development.

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4. Post-Doctoral Researcher in Rehabilitation Engineering and Digital Health Technologies

Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:

Clinical assessments have the potential to provide valuable insights into the effect of different therapeutic approaches. However, they are time-consuming to administer and suffer from several limitations, such as subjectivity, flooring/ceiling effects and poor sensitivity. This line of research aims to provide clinicians and therapists with objective and sensitive tools to precisely quantify impairments, both motor and somatosensory, in the clinic as well as in the home environment. In the last few years, we have developed technology-based assessments such as the Virtual Peg Insertion Test or the ETH MIKE that provide sensitive and reliable digital health metrics based on kinematic and kinetic data to characterize upper-limb sensorimotor function. Data from over 500 neurological patients have been collected with these devices, and several clinical studies are currently ongoing. As a Postdoctoral Researcher, your goal will be to spearhead this research line and coordinate the data collection and data analysis of these different studies.

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5. Postdoctoral Researcher in Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:

At the Media Technology Center, we are currently exploring how speech synthesis methods can allow for new possibilities to create engaging audio content. Previously, we have built the first voice assistant that can understand and speak in the local Swiss dialects (low-resource text-to-speech). A new project at MTC aims to expand on this work and explore technologies that allow for controllable, adaptive, and expressive text-to-speech synthesis. While automatic text-to-speech systems have dramatically improved over the past years, current technologies have issues that make them hard to apply for applications in the media industry, especially for radio and video broadcasts. They often lack expressiveness in the produced speech, and the original speaker is often re-identifiable based on the generated speech.

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6. Postdoctoral researcher in Computational Biology

Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:

Our research group is in the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering of ETH Zurich, a major research university offering an excellent environment for innovative and collaborative research. The department is located in Basel, a European hot-spot for biomedical research, in close proximity of several academic research institutes and the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. We are also part of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, a major provider of bioinformatics services and resources.

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7. Postdoctoral Position in Agricultural Economics

Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a background in agricultural economics. You will teach at the undergraduate level (in German) and graduate level (in English) in an inspiring teaching environment. Supervision of bachelor’s and master’s students is also expected. Teaching and supervision tasks are limited to a level that allows you to develop a strong research record in the field of the group’s focus. We are looking for someone with strong methodological expertise in one of these fields: econometrics, spatial econometrics, optimization models, agent-based models, and surveys.

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8. Two Postdoctoral Researchers in Sustainable Circular Economy

Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:

Position 1 is situated in a large Horizon Europe project on redesigning value chains to increase the share of recycled plastics. The project focuses on quantifying the economic potential of recyclate use along the value chain in different industries. Position 2 caters to a set of different projects that we are running on the circular economy in various industries. It is broader in scope, could be qualitative or quantitative and could relate to sectors such as chemicals/plastics, construction, energy or agriculture. In both positions, your work should be scientifically rigorous and at the same time relevant to policy makers and managers. Your main tasks are conducting research and publishing your results in high-ranked peer-reviewed journals, while also advising PhD and master students. Moreover, you will have the opportunity to contribute to shaping the group’s strategy, allowing you to gain experience in leading research projects and teams. You should also contribute to the group’s teaching and be open to outreach activities.

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9. Post-Doctoral position on the thermoacoustic dynamics of hydrogen fired combustors for aircraft propulsion

Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:

The goal of this research is to understand, model and control thermoacoustic instabilities and flame dynamics in future hydrogen-fired aircraft combustors. These combustors will enable net CO2 reductions of future aircrafts of 75% compared to kerosene-powered aviation. The thermoacoustic instabilities result from the constructive interaction of the unsteady combustion process and the combustor acoustics. They are strongly undesirable because they can severely restrict the operating range of the engine. In this context, the development of special annular combustors for hydrogen necessitates significant research effort to predict and prevent thermoacoustic instabilities and to ensure robust and low-NOx combustion process.

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10. Post-Doctoral position on the thermoacoustic dynamics of can-annular combustors

Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:

The goal of this research is to understand and model thermoacoustic instabilities in future can-annular combustors. These combustors will enable clean combustion of green hydrogen in large gas turbines that will be used to balance intermittent electricity production of renewable sources. These thermoacoustic instabilities result from the constructive interaction of the unsteady combustion process and the combustor acoustics. They are strongly undesirable because they severely restrict the operating range of the engine. In this context, the development of special, more compact, can-combustors for hydrogen necessitates significant research effort to predict and prevent thermoacoustic instabilities.

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11. Postdoctoral Research Scientists in Superconducting Quantum Computing at the new ETH Zurich – PSI Quantum Computing Hub

Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:

A growing team led by Andreas Wallraff together with a team of senior researchers from the Quantum Device Lab at the Department of Physics of ETH has set up a new superconducting circuits lab on the PSI campus at Villigen in the canton of Aargau. At this site we scale up systems developed at the Quantum Device Lab to 100 qubits and beyond. We develop automated testing and characterization techniques suitable for such large-scale devices and for systematic optimization of the fabrication processes. We also explore applications of noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) devices and plan to offer collaborators from academia and industry opportunities to benchmark their own hardware and algorithms in a state-of-the-art superconducting quantum system. To ensure success and fast progress of this project, we are looking for highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Scientists in Quantum Computing with superconducting circuits.

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12. Postdoctoral position on “Modeling the biophysics of microbial communities”

Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:

Microbiomes consist of diverse communities of microorganisms which, by engaging in complex and often evolving interactions, regulate the functioning of human bodies or natural ecosystems. Beyond metabolic interactions, microbial communities are characterized and often shaped by rich biophysical interactions. The distance between cells determines the strength of the exchange of metabolites and the probability of encounter between cells. The movement of cells governs the rate at which cells aggregate into clusters or communities. The rate of flow dictates how rapidly nutrients are replenished and a community is refreshed. The transport of dissolved substances, by diffusion and flow, governs the field of signals that cells sense and can use for navigation, for example to find conspecifics or sources of nutrients. The spatial configuration of the environments affects all of these processes, from flow to nutrient fields, and further shapes the attachment and motility characteristics of cells. Many of these processes are general across multiple microbiomes: from the human gut, to particles in the ocean, to the surface of leaves.

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13. Postdoctoral position on “Biophysical interactions in microbial communities”

Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:

Biophysical interactions are key to the assembly and functioning of microbial communities. Encounter processes determine the rate at which different microorganisms come in contact with each other and with prominent resource patches such as sinking particles. Motility and chemotaxis drive associations between different microorganisms, for example allowing bacteria to find and retain position within the nutrient-rich region surrounding individual phytoplankton cells (the ‘phycosphere’). Attachment mechanisms can be an important and hitherto underappreciated phenotype in shaping symbioses between different microorganisms. Diffusion processes drive the transport and exchange of metabolites between microorganisms. Finally, fluid flow shapes the spatial arrangement of microorganisms and their resources, contributing to encounter dynamics and influencing the interaction processes in microbial communities.

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14. Established researcher or postdoctoral position in solid Earth or planetary geodynamics

Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:

The GFD group in the Institute of Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (led by Professors Paul Tackley and Taras Gerya) seeks a scientist to join our vigorous research program in the geodynamics of the solid Earth and planets. The working language of the group is English. A starting date in mid to late 2022 is negotiable and the contract is renewable annually up to a maximum of 6 years, the maximum allowed by ETH Zurich for an Oberassistant7 established researcher. A more junior applicant might be appointed initially at the postdoctoral researcher level.

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15. Postdoc position in the research project architecture and patents

Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:

The SNSF-funded project Architecture and Patent. The Buildings of the ETH Domain examines the role of patents in architecture, both in the development of technical inventions and with regard to the protection of utility and design patents for design elements. The objects of research are the buildings of the ETH domain in Zurich and Lausanne, at the locations of the Paul Scherrer Institute and the EMPA from 1855 to the present day. Forming a continuous building stock characterized by a claim to innovation, they meet the requirements for the patent analyzes covering the building process from historicism to modernism and postmodernism to the present.

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16. Postdoctoral Researcher – Machine Learning with medical applications

Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:

The medical data science research group headed by Professor Julia Vogt at ETH Zurich is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher with a strong machine learning background. You should be interested in working in an interdisciplinary environment at the interface of Machine Learning, Medicine and Health Care.

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17. Post-Doctoral Researcher – Microalgae in Human Nutrition and Health

Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:

This is a joint project between the ETH Sustainable Food Processing Group and Nutrition and Metabolic Epigenetics Group in the Department of Health Science & Technology (D-HEST). The ETH Sustainable Food Processing Group uses a combination of innovative sustainability assessment and emerging food production approaches to target fundamental challenges in agri-food systems. This group is highly interdisciplinary, cross-cutting across sustainability, nutrition, bioengineering, and food science domains. One major focus of the team is emerging microalgae-based food production for more sustainable and nutritious foods. The Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolic Epigenetics acts as Co-Host in this project and studies the molecular interplay between nutrition, metabolism and the epigenome. The group uses a translational approach from in vitro systems and mice to humans combining next-generation sequencing, single-cell methodologies, genetics, cellular and molecular biology to decipher mechanisms that contribute to the development of chronic metabolic diseases and ageing.

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18. Postdoctoral position for the Development of Protease-Responsive Diagnostic Devices

Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:

Proteases are an important class of enzymes, that represent approx. 10% of all current drug targets. They are critical actors in health and disease and can provide insights into the state and progression of inflammatory conditions, cancer, and other ailments. Detection of protease activity in real-time and at the point-of-care could serve as a powerful clinical tool to inform application, monitoring, and adjustment of treatments. You will work in close collaboration with engineers, biologists, and clinician scientists to inform and support the development of different micro-and nanoagents for monitoring proteases. These agents contain custom-tailored peptide substrates and respond with detectable change of a magnetic or acoustic signal upon cleavage. Expanding upon a selection of target proteases, you will also perform a comprehensive proteomic study of patient samples to identify protease profiles and subsequently design suitable corresponding peptide. As one concrete clinical application, the project aims to lay the foundation for real-time in vivo assessment of inflammation in patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis.

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