Are you a Master’s graduate looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Explore the range of funded PhD programs available at the ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland. Apply online now and kickstart your doctoral journey!
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Modelling materials with local lattice instabilities
Summary of PhD Program:
Our research focuses on crystals exhibiting electronic disorder, where degenerate electron configurations lead to fascinating physical phenomena such as colossal magnetoresistance and polaronic transport. This project aims to develop novel computational frameworks to understand and predict the structure of such materials.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in ecosystem water vapor exchange
Summary of PhD Program:
This position is part of the project Effect of climate and management on evapotranspiration in agricultural ecosystems (ECOVAP) funded by the ETH Grants programme. The aim of this project is to evaluate and partition evapotranspiration in Swiss agroecosystems along a management and climate gradient and to assess the influence of extreme events, such as droughts, on the ecosystem water vapor exchange. We will use eddy covariance to quantify the ecosystem water vapor exchange using measurements from the Swiss FluxNet as well as data on the plot scale from lysimeter and dendrometer measurements.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Human-Computer Interaction: AI-based Input Detection & Text Entry Decoding
Summary of PhD Program:
The Sensing, Interaction & Perception Lab is looking for a PhD student in Human-Computer Interaction. The project will focus on input detection from sensor signals (e.g., IMU, EMG, EOG) and interaction in Mixed Reality. A good part of our input modeling will target typing and text entry decoding using character-level and word-level language models.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Human-Computer Interaction: AI-based Touch Input Detection, Capacitive Sensing, Machine Learning-based Grasp Interaction)
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD position lies at the intersection of technical Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and novel sensing technologies, focusing on touch input and grasp interaction using capacitive sensing. The aim is to push the boundaries of how mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, can leverage their raw capacitive images to extract rich interaction parameters, such as finger orientation, contact shape, and grip patterns.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in social sciences for social-ecological urban transformation
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you eager to shape the cities of tomorrow? We are looking for a PhD student who conducts research in the Swiss National Science Foundation National Research Program 81 funded project “Beyond Replacement Construction: Implementing the Socio-Ecological Transformation of the Swiss Built Environment”. The project focuses on the socio-ecological transformation of the built environment in Swiss cities through soft densification (i.e., vertical extensions, building an annex, infill development etc.) as a sustainable alternative to hard densification (i.e. demolition and total renovation).
Application Deadline: 27 January 2025
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Modeling supply chains for net-zero technologies
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD position is part of the Zero-AMPS project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The project investigates policies to speed up the development of supply chains for net-zero technologies, like renewable hydrogen. The research will cover national, regional, and global scales and assess policy outcomes such as technology diffusion, job creation, and security of energy supply. The PhD will focus on developing and applying the Zero-AMPS novel modeling framework, combining agent-based modeling with energy system modeling to simulate supply chains for net zero technologies.
Application Deadline: 31.01.2025
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7. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Rehabilitation Robotics
Summary of PhD Program:
Two of the doctoral students will be employed at ETH. One will focus on the development of a virtual technician that mediates between the therapist and the executing robotic device ensuring that therapeutic instructions are directly converted into robotic commands. The other one will improve the information flow between the therapist and the robotic device by exploring modalities and data representation techniques beyond simple 2D graphics. The interactive tool should bring relevant information into focus quickly and in an intuitive way.
Application Deadline: 5 January 2025
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Optomechanical Quantum Sensing
Summary of PhD Program:
The magnetic resonance force microscope (MRFM) is an ultrasensitive variety of the atomic force microscope (AFM): A nanoscale sample, such as a large biomolecule, is placed on a micromechanical sensor made from silicon nitride. When approaching a tiny ferromagnetic tip to within 10-100 nm from the sample, each nuclear or electronic spin in the sample will feel a magnetic force. Although this force is minute, on the order of 1e-18 N (one attonewton) or below, it leads to a slight mechanical push on the sensor.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in digital ligand engineering for nanocatalysis
Summary of PhD Program:
Metal and metal oxide clusters and nanoparticles are potent catalysts for many chemical reactions. Their structure and properties can be modulated by organic ligands, that exert influence by both steric and electronic properties. The choice and design of organic ligands therefore offers a promising avenue for fine control of both structure and the reactivity of nanocatalysts through ligand engineering. In this project, we will develop structure-activity relationships and computational ligand engineering algorithms for nanoparticle and nanocluster catalysis, leveraging state-of-the-art methodology from both the heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis fields.
Application Deadline: January 5, 2025
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in geophysical glaciology
Summary of PhD Program:
This doctorate will focus on using active-source seismology to characterise Crary Ice Rise. Specifically, the doctorate will use seismic imaging of geological structures beneath the ice, and quantitative determination of seismic properties at the ice-bed interface. Seismic imaging will use conventional multichannel seismic methods combining explosive sources with a snow-streamer. Analysis of the ice-bed interface will combine amplitude analysis methods commonly used in the cryosphere with full-waveform inversion techniques.
Application Deadline: January 31st, 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in atmospheric aerosol and solar research
Summary of PhD Program:
Spectral measurements of solar irradiance will be exploited to provide information on aerosol microphysical properties for different dust sources (Sahara, Middle East, Central China). Total-column properties, vertical profiles, aerosol inversion models (GRASP) and other sources of dust mineralogy will provide additional information. Existing measurements (Tenerife, Spain – Saharan dust), Cyprus (Middle East and Saharan) and China and also measurements to be conducted during the project, will be used. Measurements in other relevant locations, based on available aerosol networks will be also exploited.
Application Deadline: 10th of January 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Landscape and Urban Studies
Summary of PhD Program:
The doctoral program at the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS), ETH Zurich D-ARCH, tackles contemporary challenges in urban and environmental transformation within broader socio-cultural, political-economic, and theoretical contexts. In light of the planetary crises, the program fosters critical discourse and supports independent, innovative, and proactive research aimed at addressing urgent socio-ecological issues.
Application Deadline: 15 March 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Earthquake Seismology and Hydromechanics
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD project (#1) focuses on the relation between seismicity and fault network architecture. The target fault zone of the FEAR project is exceptionally well constrained, by different types of data sets, including active seismic campaigns, borehole analyses and very high sensitivity seismicity catalogues. This extensive data coverage presents a unique opportunity to study how seismicity reflects fault zone properties, and – in turn – how fault zone properties affect seismicity patterns.
Application Deadline: 20 January 2025
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Urban soundscape modelling and auralization for optimal design of modal shift and Nature-based Solutions
Summary of PhD Program:
The doctoral candidate will work in the Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) project «CoCoNet – Co-creative Cohabitation Network» that aims at developing an integrated model-supported planning approach to facilitate the dialogue between different stakeholders for co-creating urban development solutions. The focus is laid on restructuring and redistributing urban streetscape at the district level and concentrates on combining mobility measures with Nature-based Solutions (NbS). The project wants to highlight spatial potentials using integrated modeling of mobility, noise dissemination, climate adaptation and biodiversity.
Application Deadline: 5. January 2025
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Embedded Systems & Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Ranging
Summary of PhD Program:
The project focuses on developing cutting-edge embedded systems that integrate UWB and motion sensors for high-accuracy ranging, tracking, and communication. You will work on custom PCBs, firmware development, and the seamless connection of MCUs with various sensors. You will also develop learning-based pipelines for state, position, and motion estimation.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sustainable Networking
Summary of PhD Program:
The Networked Systems Group is a research group in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (D-ITET) at ETH Zürich led by Prof. Laurent Vanbever. Our group is developing a team led by Dr. Romain Jacob, focusing on sustainable networking. Today’s Internet, and more generally communication networks, are responsible for a large and quickly increasing share of the world’s carbon footprint. The current trend of ever-increasing capacity deployment and bandwidth demand is incompatible with the emission reduction targets that we must collectively achieve.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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17. Fully Funded PhD Position in multi-material additive manufacturing: manufacturability, microstructure and mechanical properties
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD thesis is part of the FASTE (Fabrication Additive des Structures performantes multi-maTériaux pour utilisation en Environnement sévère) project, funded by the 2024 Lopez-Loreta foundation prize. FASTE, a collaboration between ISAE SUPAERO and ETH Zürich, aims to produce and characterize multi-material parts using LPBF (Laser Powder Bed Fusion), DED (Direct Energy Deposition), and WAAM (Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing) technologies. The project encompasses manufacturing methodologies, mechanical behavior characterization, and modeling under complex loads, focusing on multi-material parts.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
