PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Bioengineering in Switzerland

ETH Zurich and Novartis Biomedical Research are seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher for a collaborative project in Basel, Switzerland. The work sits at the interface of academic and industrial research and focuses on neuroimmunology, bioengineering, and therapeutic development. The project will develop and apply advanced human in vitro models of the blood-brain barrier to investigate mechanisms driving disease progression in Multiple Sclerosis. Building on an established multicellular, flow-enable...

The FHNW School of Life Sciences in Muttenz, Switzerland, is advertising a PhD position in Bioprocess Technology within the Institute for Pharma Technology and Biotechnology’s Bioprocess Technology Lab. The project focuses on the engineering and automation of cell-culture systems for the production of antibodies and viral vectors. The doctoral researcher will work on upstream bioprocess technology involving mammalian cell-culture systems, laboratory equipment, automation, and programming. The po...

This postdoctoral project at EPFL is based in the laboratory of Prof. Alex Persat in the School of Life Sciences. The position focuses on building a new image-based drug screening platform to identify compounds active against major gram-negative bacterial pathogens , including Klebsiella pneumoniae , Acinetobacter baumannii , and Pseudomonas aeruginosa . The researcher will design and implement a microscopy-based phenotypic screening workflow that combines live imaging , high-content screening ,...

Fully funded PhD and postdoctoral opportunities are available in Sustainable Chemical Engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. The research is based in the Laboratory of Sustainable and Catalytic Processing (LPDC), with a focus on sustainable catalytic processing, biobased polymers, and biobased surfactants. These opportunities are suitable for researchers interested in chemical engineering, catalysis, sustainable processing, chemistry, bioengineering, and mat...

Doctoral Student in Environmental Bioengineering at ETH Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland). The Environmental Microfluidics Group of Prof. Roman Stocker in the Institute of Environmental Engineering is recruiting a PhD student for a project on bacterial chemotaxis , plasmid transfer , and the spread of antibiotic resistance in aquatic environments. The project is a joint effort with Prof. Jonasz Slomka at the University of Warsaw and is funded by a recently awarded SNSF grant . This is a highly experi...

Postdoctoral Position in Image-Based Drug Screening Against Bacterial Pathogens at EPFL EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to help establish a new image-based drug screening platform in the laboratory of Prof. Alex Persat at the EPFL School of Life Sciences. The project focuses on gram-negative bacterial pathogens, including Klebsiella pneumoniae , Acinetobacter baumannii , and Pseudomonas aeruginosa . The successful candidate will design and ...

Postdoc in Cancer Neuroscience at EPFL The Kim Laboratory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, is recruiting a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to study how neuronal activity and the physical tumor microenvironment cooperate to drive brain cancer progression. The project focuses on cancer neuroscience, glioma biology, neuron–glioma interactions, mechanochemical signaling, tissue stiffness, extracellular matrix composition, and mechanosensitive ion channels...

PhD Position in Epidemiology/Digital Health: Digital Follow-up of post-Sepsis (UMZH Learn4Sepsis) at the University of Zurich , Switzerland. This PhD project is embedded in Work Package 5 of the UMZH Learn4Sepsis program and focuses on designing and initiating a digital follow-up cohort for people after sepsis. The work combines epidemiology , digital health , biostatistics , machine learning , natural language processing , and data-driven patient-reported outcome research. The candidate will he...