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1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Information Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
In your activities, you will have to perform innovative research on design science research and sustainability (of business model). The main purpose is to design a new digital platform that will enable to collaboratively address wicked problems such as sustainability. In this endeavor, you will collaborate with UI/UX designers, developers and business professionals. You thus need to be interested in sustainability (of business model) and multidisciplinary approaches.
Application Deadline: 30.10.2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Information Systems and Management
Summary of PhD Program:
As part of your work, you will study narratives as part of the ecological transformation of society. Anchored in interdisciplinary research between Management, Information Systems, Sociology and Literature, the main objective will be to identify and (re)think the main narrative of the ‘techno-solutionism’ on ecological transformation. The candidate will have to collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of specialists of human and social sciences.
Application Deadline: 01.10.2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Oncology
Summary of PhD Program:
The Vascular and Tumor Biology group of Tatiana Petrova at the Department of Oncology of the University of Lausanne invites applications for Md-PhD student position. The position is funded by TANDEM grant of ISREC and the selected candidate will be co-supervised jointly by Tatiana Petrova and Thibaud Koesller, the Head of Digestive Tumor Unit and the Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Lab, Department of Oncology, HUG
Application Deadline: 30.10.2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Neurodevelopmental Biology
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Fundamental Neurosciences of the University of Lausanne invites applications for a PhD Student position in the research group of Prof Sophie Croizier. The Croizier lab works on the development of hypothalamic circuits controlling energy and glucose homeostasis.
Application Deadline: 01.10.2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sociology
Summary of PhD Program:
The two PhD student positions will be part of the ERC consolidator project: Improving Female Migrants’ Labour Market Positioning – An Intersectional Approach to Occupational Segregation Processes across countries and over time (PROFEM) under the lead of Prof. Stephanie Steinmetz. The aim of the project is to examine occupational segregation processes from a gender-migrational perspective across countries and over time considering micro (individual), meso (organisational) and macro (country) factors.
Position 1 (education) will focus on enhancing our understanding of how and which mechanisms shape gender-migrational segregation processes in educational choices and their translation into the labour market.
Position 2 (organizations) will focus on the role of organizational diversity policies and management in pertaining gender/migrant stereotypes and differences.
Application Deadline: September 23, 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sustainability Transformation Research Initiative Fund
Summary of PhD Program:
Metanarratives are important for considering any transformation of society insofar as they have functions of orientation, coordination and support for the action of individuals and groups. Our project intends to target two predominant metanarratives which we hypothesize, based on our experience in the field in Switzerland, in academic and school education on the one hand, and in the business world on the other, that they constitute major obstacles to the evolution of society towards sustainability: the technosolutionist metanarrative and the apocalyptic metanarrative. Indeed, in the first case, the ecological catastrophe will ultimately be avoided thanks to technological solutions. This optimism of the best of all possible worlds is opposed to a pessimism according to which the catastrophe is inevitable and that there is nothing more to try to change things, a pessimism conveyed by the apocalyptic metanarrative.
Application Deadline: September 30, 2024
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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Geography : Energy Justice in the Swiss Energy Transition
Summary of PhD Program:
The successful candidate will work in the project entitled EQUITAS (Swiss Energy eQUIty aTlAS: Closing the loop between theory, policy, and practice) funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy in collaboration with HES-SO Valais-Wallis Institute of Social Work and Energy Science Centre (ESC), ETH Zurich. This project aims to bring social equity to the forefront of energy policies, programmes, and pilots by developing innovative social metrics using socio-territorial indicators. The successful candidate will work on translating the conceptual framework of energy justice — encompassing recognition, procedural, distributive, and restorative justice — into the Swiss context, by exemplifying how the four dimensions of energy justice apply to Swiss energy policies.
Application Deadline: September 17, 2024
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Information Systems / Computer Science
Summary of PhD Program:
Second-hand electronic storage devices, such as hard drives and USB sticks, are commonly sold on dedicated online platforms such as eBay and Ricardo (in Switzerland). Although second-hand devices are more affordable and more environment-friendly than new products, the remnant data that the electronic storage devices can contain (i.e., files that the users do not delete or that can still be recovered after being deleted) could create security and privacy risks, for instance if they include malware or personal data from a previous owner (e.g., intimate photos).
The goal of the SNSF project, led by a professor of computer science (Prof. Kévin Huguenin) and a professor of law (Prof. Sylvain Métille), is to conduct both a user-centric and a legal analysis of remnant data found on second-hand storage devices. The analyses will be deeply connected, thus providing instrumental input to each other.
This job offer concerns the user-centric security and privacy analysis and will consist in conducting experiments to study user attitudes and behaviors.
Application Deadline: 25.09.2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in function of HOT regions using imaging and sequencing approaches
Summary of PhD Program:
HOT regions (High Occupancy Target) in the genome are regions with an unusual High Occupancy of (many) Transcription factors. These regions have been suggested to affect gene expression, but exactly how this works is not clear. We have recently identified HOT regions in the zebrafish genome and these all come together in nuclear space to form a large cluster. This may provide an important clue to the function of HOT regions as these large clusters could provide a source of transcription factors, or conversely, titrate away transcription factors from genes elsewhere in the genome. This has important implications in the context of gene regulation, especially in this early developmental window, when the embryo transitions from a transcriptionally silent to transcriptionally active state. The aim of this project is to investigate (i) how HOT regions seed the formation of TF clusters, (ii) how these clusters come together in nuclear space, and (iii) how HOT regions impact transcription. You will use state of the art sequencing and imaging approaches to address these questions.
Application Deadline: 1.10.24
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in transcription cluster organization by imaging
Summary of PhD Program:
There is accumulating evidence for a new gene expression paradigm, in which genes and transcription factors cooperate to create specialized transcription bodies. While these bodies have gained a lot of interest in recent years, they are generally hard to study because they are small, abundant, and short-lived. A few years ago, we discovered that in zebrafish embryos, transcription begins in two transcription bodies that are large, isolated, and long-lived (Hilbert et al., 2021). These provide us with an excellent system to investigate how transcription bodies form (Kuznetsova et al., 2023; Chabot et al., 2024) and what their role is in transcription regulation (Ugolini et al., 2024). The aim of this project is to understand the organization in time and space of transcription bodies using advanced microscopy (single molecule tracking, confocal imaging and spectroscopy, spinning disk) and data analysis methods to look at proteins, RNA and specific genes. As form often informs function, we expect that this will clarify how transcription bodies work and how their dynamics can affect transcription.
Application Deadline: 1.10.24
11. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
You are part of the consortium of the project “Switzerland by bike! For an ecological and social transformation of mobility” which brings together 6 professors from 5 UNIL faculties, 3 young researchers and numerous field partners. You are working in module 3 (What are the conditions for implementing a transformative bicycle policy?) which is supervised by Julie Pollard (political scientist) and Véronique Boillet (lawyer). This module aims to understand the gaps between political objectives, the regulatory framework, and the implementation processes of policies relating to the development of cycling.
Application Deadline: October 20, 2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Obligations Law
Summary of PhD Program:
In order to complete its team, the Private Law Center of the Law School of the Faculty of Law, Criminal Sciences and Public Administration is looking for a graduate assistant in the law of obligations for Professor Laurent Bieri.
Application Deadline: October 31, 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
As part of the project “La Suisse vélo! For an ecological and social transformation of mobility” financed by the STRIVE program ( www.unil.ch/strive ), the IGD is looking for a doctoral student or a first assistant. Depending on the profile of the successful candidate, he/she will be entrusted with the role of doctoral student (non-doctoral, with the aim of completing a doctoral thesis) or first assistant (with a doctorate) and the missions related to the corresponding role. The roles, activities and profiles are described below.
Application Deadline: October 10, 2024
