PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Evolutionary Biology in Switzerland

Eawag’s Department of Fish Ecology and Evolution is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to investigate fish migration and life history variation in anadromous Arctic charr. The project examines how glacial inputs shape fjord environments and how these environmental differences influence the ecology, movement patterns, foraging, phenotypic divergence, and local distinctiveness of Arctic charr populations. The research will compare populations using glacial-fed and tundra streams, fjords influenced ...

Postdoctoral Position in Bioinformatics and Plant Paleogenomics at the University of Bern , Switzerland. This two-year, fixed-term postdoctoral opening is hosted at the Institute of Plant Sciences and the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research within the SNSF Consolidator grant project ARIaDNA . The project focuses on bioinformatics , plant paleogenomics , ancient DNA , paleoecology , population genetics , and vegetation modelling . ARIaDNA aims to reconstruct how key European tree species ...

The NOMIS Foundation ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship at ETH Zurich supports postdoctoral researchers working within the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life (COPL) . The fellowship is designed for young interdisciplinary researchers pursuing bold, fundamental, and high-risk projects related to the origin and prevalence of life. It provides a framework for fellows to develop research independence while benefiting from access to a broad international network through COPL, the NOMIS collaborative r...

PhD Student Position at the University of Neuchâtel (UNINE), Switzerland , in the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics with Prof. Daniel Croll . The project focuses on evolutionary genomics and fungal biology , with research directions including: genomic basis of rapid adaptation to host plants, climate and agrochemicals; tracking transposable element expansion dynamics; causes and consequences of fungal genome plasticity; and recapitulating evolutionary processes using DNA language models / LLMs...