Are you a Master’s graduate looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Explore the range of funded PhD programs available at the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Apply online now and kickstart your doctoral journey!
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Statistics & Data Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The Faculty of Psychology is one of seven faculties of the oldest university in Switzerland. With our core focus on Society & Choice and Health & Interventions, we are successful both nationally and internationally in our research and study programs. In the newly established research group “Statistics & Data Science”, we develop and evaluate statistical models and analysis methods in psychology. Our research focuses on psychometric models (e.g., Item Response Theory models), machine learning methods (e.g., Random Forests, Neural Networks, and interpretation techniques), and multilevel models (e.g., analysis methods for hierarchical and longitudinal data).
Application Deadline: January 13, 2025
2. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Sustainability Research, focus on sustainable agri-food system governance
Summary of PhD Program:
This five-year research project aims to examine the impact of such sustainability laws in the supply chains of coffee, cocoa and palm oil. What expectations do these laws create between the regulatory authorities and the companies that trade in these commodities? And how do these expectations in turn influence the shift towards more sustainable agriculture?
Application Deadline: January 6, 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in quantum sensing of biomolecules and their chemical stimuli
Summary of PhD Program:
For the prestigious PhD school of the Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI), we solicit applications for a paid 4-year PhD student position in the Biomolecular Nano-Dynamics group at the Dept. of Chemistry and in close collaboration with the Quantum Sensing group at the Dept. of Physics, both at the University of Basel, Switzerland. We look for a highly talented and motivated PhD student with a strong background in physics or physical chemistry to join our team for cutting-edge quantum sensing of biomolecules using nitrogen vacancy (NV) colour centers in diamond and single-photon fluorescence readouts.
Application Deadline: 31 December 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
In the Department of Sport and Psychosocial Health of the Department of Sport, Exercise and Health (DSBG) of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Basel, a 4-year temporary position for Prof. Dr. Markus Gerber is to be filled starting March 1, 2025.
Application Deadline: January 31, 2025
5. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Latin and Greek Literature
Summary of PhD Program:
Formed by two project groups in Basel and Cambridge, and led by specialists in Greek and Latin Literature and Ancient Philosophy (Prof. Cédric Scheidegger Laemmle, Basel; Prof. Richard Hunter and Prof. Gábor Betegh, Cambridge), the cross-disciplinary project CITE is dedicated to the study of the indirect transmission of ancient literature and philosophy, but shifts attention from textual problems to questions of meaning, interpretation and transmission history raised by the citing texts themselves.
Application Deadline: 19 January 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Embryonic Gene Regulation, Tissue Maturation and EcoEvoDevo
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal of this Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)-funded project is to study the molecular and tissue-scale dynamics during the embryonic formation of the vertebrate skeleton, compare it across different vertebrate species and investigate the role of the embryonic tissue environment and the species’ habitats at large. You will be performing experimental embryology studies and targeted CRISPR/Cas9 genome modifications, produce and analyze a range of functional single-cell genomics data sets (single-cell RNA-seq, single-cell ATAC-seq single-cell multiome and spatial transcriptomics), and perform evolutionary-comparative studies across species occupying distinct habitats.
Application Deadline: January 1st 2025
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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Forensic Psychology
Summary of PhD Program:
In the newly established department of Forensic Psychology, we work on the application of psychological theories, methods and empirical findings to legal problems. Our research currently focuses on the prognosis and prevention of child abuse, and neglect, forensic-psychological assessment, children’s rights, and the development of aggressive and antisocial behavioral problems.
Application Deadline: January 22, 2025
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Spin waves get a twist!
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a PhD student for a joint research project of the Quantum Sensing Lab at the University of Basel led by Prof. P. Maletinsky (https://quantum-sensing.physik.unibas.ch) and Mesoscopic System Group at the ETH-PSI (https://mesosys.mat.ethz.ch/). The student will become a member of the Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI) PhD school in Basel and will benefit from its strongly interdisciplinary environment, stimulating internal SNI events, and the personal support and training offered by the PhD program.
Application Deadline: 31 December 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in exercise physiology
Summary of PhD Program:
A doctoral position is to be filled at the Department of Sport, Exercise and Health (DSBG) of the University of Basel in the research group for movement and training science from April 1, 2025 or by agreement. The post holder will be involved in the implementation of the frAGILE study funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. This study examines the effects of an immobilization phase followed by re-training depending on age and gender. Modern measurement methods are used to investigate the underlying mechanisms that explain possible differences between age groups and genders.
Application Deadline: December 31, 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in automated mapping of soil erosion on European scale
Summary of PhD Program:
At the Department of Environmental Sciences within the research group Environmental Geosciences we are looking for a PhD candidate with interest in soil erosion research to explore the possibilities of upscaling the SWISS scale mapping tool AIMS Switzerland (Artificial Intelligence mapping of erosion features for Swiss grassland Soils) to Europe. The project will be in cooperation with the Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
Application Deadline: 17th of February, 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Medical Implant Technologies
Summary of PhD Program:
The Institute for Biomedical Ethics (IBMB) at the University of Basel (http://ibmb.unibas.ch/), is dedicated to research and teaching of biomedical ethics at the Medical and Science Faculties. We are currently looking for a dynamic and independent graduate student (Master’s degree) or physician who is interested in carrying out their PhD work in empirical bioethics. The PhD position is part of an exciting research project on the ethical and social implications of new implant device technologies funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation as part of the National Research Program NRP83.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in New Plant Breeding Technologies
Summary of PhD Program:
The project draws from a planetary health ethics approach to investigate ethical and social aspects related to the social and political (non-)acceptance of genetically modified food. It has empirical parts (systematic review of reasons, content analysis of public debates in Switzerland and the US, stakeholder interview study, survey) and an ethical analysis part mapping trade-offs and arguments based on the available literature and the empirical findings.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Epidemiology with Interests in Health Systems, Migration and Mental Health
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH), within Swiss TPH, develops and applies epidemiological, statistical and mathematical methods to advance innovation, validation and application in the field of public health. The Urban Public Health Unit, the University Psychiatry Clinic, and the Household Economics and Health Systems Research Unit of EPH are currently looking for a PhD Student in Epidemiology with Interests in Health Systems, Migration and Mental Health (100%).
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
