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

The University of Zurich is advertising more than 25 fully funded PhD positions across a broad range of research areas. The opportunities are based in Zurich, Switzerland, and are offered as paid positions rather than as a single scholarship programme. Fields represented in the listings include life sciences, medicine, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, astrophysics, and the social sciences and humanities. The breadth of the call may suit applicants seeking doctoral research in biomedical an...

This PhD project is part of VERTICAF (Vertical Africa: Visualizing Urban Change, Negotiating Power, Designing Sustainable Cities) , a comparative research initiative on urban verticalization in African cities. Based at EPFL Lausanne and linked to partnerships with the Universities of Dakar, Kigali, and Luanda, the project examines how cities in Africa are changing through vertical growth and what this means for urban futures. The doctoral researcher will focus on developing and applying methods ...

The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program is a globally competitive fellowship for early career researchers working to improve the development, learning, and living conditions of children and youth. The fellowship supports research across a broad interdisciplinary scope, including education sciences, psychology, economics, sociology, family studies, media studies, political science, linguistics, neurosciences, and medical sciences . It is intended for researchers developing projects that...

ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich, invites applications for two doctoral researcher positions in the SNSF-funded project “From Homes to Habitats – Swiss Housing Cooperatives as Agents of Socio-Ecological Transition.” The project investigates how housing cooperatives in Switzerland can support more sustainable ways of living. It moves beyond their established role in providing affordable housing to examine innovative social, spatial, and ecological practices a...

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Zurich is recruiting two postdoctoral researchers for the SNSF-funded projects Shining Light on Praise and The Social Power of Praise . The projects sit at the intersection of moral philosophy and experimental philosophy, examining the nature, mechanisms, and social impact of moral praise. The Zurich positions are dedicated to empirical and experimental research. Postdoctoral researchers will conduct high-quality research on moral praise, co-auth...

This postdoctoral position is based in the Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab at EPFL Lausanne , within a research environment that emphasizes state-of-the-art work, international collaboration, and interaction with renowned experts. The lab is presented as part of a strong team of postdoctoral researchers and PhD students, offering a dynamic setting for research at the intersection of digital methods and cognitive approaches to music. The project focus is centered on musicology with a digital...

The Rhine AI research group, led by Prof. I. Bogunovic in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Basel , is offering a PhD opportunity in the post-training of diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs). The SNSF-funded project, “Foundations of Post-Training for Reasoning in Diffusion Large Language Models,” investigates how post-training can improve the reasoning capabilities of dLLMs. These models represent an emerging alternative to standard autoregressive l...

Master of Arts in German Linguistics at the University of Bern is a 120-ECTS graduate program completed over four semesters. The program develops advanced knowledge of the systematics, varieties, and use of the German language, alongside scholarly methods for linguistic analysis. Students explore five interconnected areas: the linguistic system, including grammar, comparative linguistics, and typology; cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics, including language acquisition and language-relat...

The University of Zurich offers a Master of Arts in Linguistics as a 120 ECTS single-major program through the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Zurich Center for Linguistics. The program provides broad and research-oriented training in linguistic data acquisition, including fieldwork methods, and in the automatic processing and statistical analysis of large corpora and databases. Students develop programming skills focused on linguistic data processing and strengthen their methodologi...