Fully Funded PhD Positions in Foundation Models for Scientific Discovery and AI Applications University of Geneva in Switzerland

The University of Bern is advertising a fully funded PhD position in Planetary Science within the Space Research and Planetary Sciences division. The project focuses on how impacts and sublimation shape the surfaces of comets and other icy bodies , with particular attention to impact craters , surface morphology, and long-term landscape evolution. The research combines laboratory experiments on crater sublimation with numerical modelling of landscape evolution over billion-year timescales. The s...

WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF in Davos, Switzerland is recruiting a PhD student for Snow Water Equivalent innovative sensor development (f/m/d) . The project sits within the Research Unit Snow and Atmosphere and focuses on snow processes, snow hydrology, cryosphere monitoring, sensor development, field measurements, and data analysis. The PhD will work on a research project funded by the Swiss National Competence Center Muoniverse and collaborate with the Paul Scherrer Instit...

Harvard University’s Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology is inviting applications for two postdoctoral fellowships associated with the ATLAS experiment . The research focus includes experimental particle physics , cosmology , detector commissioning, and data analysis. Successful fellows will be stationed at CERN and work with Professor Masahiro Morii on the commissioning of the ITK tracking detector or with Prof. Melissa Franklin on the muon spectrometer Level 1 MDT trigger . Fellows a...

PhD position at the University of Bern in the Climatology Group at the Institute of Geography and the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research. The project, led by Prof. Stefan Brönnimann , focuses on past weather and climate extremes in Switzerland . The thesis will develop multi-variable, high-resolution daily weather reconstructions for Switzerland and Europe and analyse the historical frequency, intensity, characteristics, and timing of extremes such as heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, and...

PhD Student in Law at ETH Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland , within the SNSF-funded project Responsible AI for the Swiss Judiciary . This doctoral project examines the role of artificial intelligence in judicial decision-making, with a focus on legal reasoning , behavioral responses , and institutional implications . The position sits at the intersection of law , computer science , and empirical social science , and is designed as a cumulative PhD. The researcher will study judicial decision-making...