PhD Position in Earth Observation and Environmental Engineering at ETH Zürich ETH Zürich in Switzerland

ETH Zurich is advertising a PhD position at the Chair of Earth Observation and Remote Sensing with Prof. Irena Hajnsek. The project focuses on Earth Observation , Remote Sensing , Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) , signal processing , Arctic climate science , permafrost , and geospatial AI . The research will use multi-modal SAR to monitor rapid environmental shifts and climate impacts across Arctic permafrost landscapes. Technical work includes developing advanced algorithms for multi-modal radar...

ETH Zürich is offering a doctoral position in Earth Observation and Remote Sensing at the Chair of Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, Institute of Environmental Engineering. The project starts from autumn/winter 2026 and is centered on multi-modal synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for large-scale rapid change observations in permafrost regions. The research will investigate and develop generic methods and algorithms for estimating environmental parameters over Arctic regions, with a particular f...

University of Zurich is recruiting three PhD candidates for an SNSF-funded project on forest canopy height reconstruction from satellite data . The positions are part of the project “From Alps to Arctic: Satellite-based Assessment of Forest Canopy Height across Decades” , jointly led by Prof. Livia Piermattei (Remote Sensing of Environmental Changes Group, Department of Geography) and Prof. Jan Dirk Wegner (EcoVision Lab, Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning). The research co...

ETH Zurich’s Chair of Forest Resources Management (FORM) is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher in Forest Economics / Forest Management . The position sits at the interface of forest economics , forest management , environmental decision-making, and applied research, with links to remote sensing, decision support, risk analysis, and stakeholder-oriented approaches. The FORM group works on how forests can be understood, monitored, modelled, and managed now and in the future. The postdoctoral res...

PhD and postdoctoral opportunities are available in tropical biodiversity conservation at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland , within a newly funded Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) project: Scale-OECM: Cross-scale Impact Quantification, Monitoring and Planning of Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) . The project focuses on understanding how OECMs contribute to biodiversity conservation by combining biodiversity monitoring , impact evaluation , and conservation...