Are you a Master’s graduate looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Explore the range of funded PhD programs available at the University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland. Apply online now and kickstart your doctoral journey!
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Interaction of GLP-1 and Amylin agonists in the control of eating
Summary of PhD Program:
The massive rise in obesity rates is mainly due to changes in lifestyle, in particular increased caloric intake. Promising emerging therapies rely on the combination of gut hormones and their agonists. To pursue important questions regarding pharmacotherapy using GLP-1 and amylin agonists, we offer an attractive position in a collaborative project with another university in Europe and a US based university. The experimental work of this project will combine in vivo approaches with analyses at the cellular and subcellular level to resolve the mechanisms mediating the actions of GLP-1 and amylin agonists. This project will use a large array of behavioral experiments in rats and mice.
Application Deadline: 15.08.2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Asian and Oriental Studies
Summary of PhD Program:
The Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies (IAOS) of the University of Zurich is the largest center of research and teaching on Asia in Switzerland with about 100 employees. The Department of Japanese Studies invites applications for a PhD candidate / research and teaching fellow. The successful candidate will be a member of the Chair of Japanology lead by Prof Raji Steineck. The doctoral position allows the successful candidate to develop their own research project (PhD project). Work duties include independent teaching and coaching of students (on BA and MA level) as well as collaboration in projects and administration of the chair.
Application Deadline: August 15 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computational Social Science / Data Donation
Summary of PhD Program:
The Institute for Communication Science and Media Research at the University of Zurich (IKMZ) is looking to fill a position as a doctoral student at the chair of Prof. Dr. Thomas Friemel as of January 1, 2025 or by arrangement. With around 80 employees, the IKMZ is one of the largest communication science institutes in Europe and provides an excellent infrastructure for research and teaching, an inspiring academic environment and excellent employment conditions. The University of Zurich also offers numerous opportunities for continuing education and a wide range of interdisciplinary cooperation opportunities.
Application Deadline: August 31, 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in German linguistics
Summary of PhD Program:
The project “BOND: Birth of new dialects? – Swiss German in traditional Romansh areas”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, examines the emergence of new Swiss German dialects in the traditional area of the Romansh varieties Sutsilvan and Sursilvan. The project lies at the interface of dialectology, language and dialect contact research, sociolinguistics and grammar research. The aim of the project is, on the one hand, to close a gap in dialectological research and, on the other hand, to expand existing work on new dialect formation by examining grammatical phenomena.
Application Deadline: August 1, 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantitative Methods for Psychology
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is located within the Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich and offers an outstanding work and research environment. The workgroup for Quantitative Methods of Intervention and Evaluation is active and internationally connected in quantitative methods and psychometrics. The workgroup’s focus is to develop and apply new statistical methods and software for (intensive) longitudinal and multilevel data, extending and linking classical statistical approaches used in psychology (e.g. SEM, regression) with newer approaches such as Bayesian methods, stochastic differential equations (continuous time), and machine learning.
Application Deadline: July 21 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in gender segregation in occupations
Summary of PhD Program:
The University Research Priority Program (URPP) “Human Reproduction Reloaded | H2R” explores the societal impacts and legal implications of human reproduction. This interdisciplinary positioned URPP brings together researchers from six faculties as well as from various disciplines from the humanities, social, medical, and natural sciences. You will join a working group within this program, consisting of two senior researchers and another PhD. We focus on the value-related origins and the economic consequences of reproductive preferences. This position is located at the Department of Sociology, which is one of the leading empirically oriented institutes in Switzerland and Europe.
Application Deadline: 15th of August 2024
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7. Fully Funded PhD Position in A.I. for healthcare
Summary of PhD Program:
Our goal is to develop state-of-the-art approaches and build best-in-class methods to capitalize on multimodal clinical information for building robust decision support systems powered by (explainable and interpretable) predictive algorithms for guiding patient therapy across all disease stages, the assessment of treatment effects using counterfactual inference and the identification of causal mechanisms driving disease progression (see examples of our latest work [1-8]). Moreover, there are possibilities to expand the research scope towards working with heterogeneous biomedical data.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Economics
Summary of PhD Program:
The Chair of Business Economics, with a focus on Personnel Economics and Economics of (Vocational) Education is part of the Department of Business Administration at the University of Zurich. Prof. Dr. Anne Brenøe (https://sites.google.com/view/aabrenoe/home) is appointed to start as an Associate Professor in the chair on February 1, 2025. In the chair, we conduct cutting-edge research on topics within Economics of Education and Labor/Personnel Economics. We employ the newest empirical techniques for causal identification. In particular, we are currently conducting and planning field experiments (RCTs) in Switzerland and abroad.
Application Deadline: August 15, 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in computational chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project will deal with development and application of novel, accurate approaches for the study of functional catalytic compounds. A possible direction of the project is the development of advanced dynamic approaches for detailed and realistic study of reaction mechanisms and reaction networks considering in a sophisticated manner environmental effects (also under catalytic conditions). This can include the development of advanced enhanced sampling and machine learning approaches.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Veterinary Parasitology
Summary of PhD Program:
Veterinary Parasitology: we focus on different aspects of parasite infections in a wide array of animals aiming at better animal health, welfare and productivity. We investigate the pathological and pathophysiological processes inducing parasitic diseases, the molecular negotiations between parasites and their hosts, and develop and study the performance of diagnostic tools for individual analyses and epidemiological studies. Our overall goal is to understand the pathogenesis of parasitoses and to identify appropriate therapies and control measures.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Strategic Communication
Summary of PhD Program:
The research group “Strategic Communication & Media Management” (Prof. Dr. Nadine Strauß) at the Department of Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich (IKMZ) is seeking to fill a doctoral position. The department offers an outstanding research and teaching environment, a wide range of work areas, and an inspiring intellectual climate.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
12. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for interested veterinarians (med.vet.) who are willing to work hard to learn various laboratory and animal experiment techniques and to work independently. No one is left alone with us, because we all support each other in conducting the studies. That is why the ability to work in a team and commitment are an absolute must. During your employment, you will write your doctoral thesis (Dr. med.vet).
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in computational psychiatry
Summary of PhD Program:
In the context of a new ERC Synergy project (DELTA-LANG), our lab is interested in novel ways of phenotyping psychotic disorders, including quantitative analysis of language with large language models, combined with multimodal neuroimaging (model-based fMRI, neuromelanin imaging and others). The goal is to design and implement novel paradigms (e.g. combined fMRI and speech production) and use methods such as machine learning, multilevel analyses and computational modeling to decompose behavioral performance into interpretable aspects of cognitive and perceptual processing.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
