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

EPFL is offering a full-time PhD position in the Laloui Group in Lausanne, Switzerland, within the SNSF-funded DFabuLis project, “Digital Fabrication Using Living Systems.” The project is conducted with Dr. Dimitrios Terzis, Senior Scientist in the Laloui Group at EPFL, and co-PI Prof. Benjamin Dillenburger of the Chair of Digital Building Technologies at ETH Zurich. The research explores how biologically driven mineralization can transform demolition and excavation materials into granular mater...

PhD position in Sociology at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, starting in February 2027. The project investigates how digital and physical social spaces shape youth socialization and social inequalities. The doctoral researcher will study these processes using a combination of longitudinal, diary, geospatial, and experimental data. This interdisciplinary empirical design offers an opportunity to examine how young people’s social environments influence development, interaction, and unequa...

This PhD project is hosted in the Laloui Group at EPFL in Lausanne and is carried out within the SNSF-funded project DFabuLis: Digital Fabrication Using Living Systems . The research sits at the intersection of geomaterials, material science, and engineering applications, focusing on how biologically driven mineralization can be used to transform demolition and excavation materials into feedstocks for digital fabrication under ambient conditions. The doctoral researcher will investigate the coup...

The Swiss Confederation awards the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships for Foreign Scholars and Artists each year to strengthen international exchange and research cooperation between Switzerland and more than 180 countries. The scheme is administered by the Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students (FCS) and is designed for young researchers from abroad as well as foreign artists. It supports academic and artistic mobility in Switzerland through a national scholarship compet...

Cogito Foundation Postdoc Scholarships support project-oriented postdoctoral research for scientists who have recently completed a PhD and want to carry out their studies at a foreign institution. The scheme is centred on cross-disciplinary collaboration between the Sciences and the Humanities . The foundation emphasizes that both sides of the collaboration should gain scientifically from the project, and that the work should go beyond simply applying a method from one field to another. The awar...

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's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences offers PhD study in two linguistic subjects: Linguistics and Computational Linguistics and Phonetics . The unified Linguistics subject covers German, English, Romance, Slavic, and Comparative Linguistics, including Indo-European Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and other linguistic fields and subfields. Students interested in computational linguistics and/or phonetics pursue the combined subject Computational Linguistics and Phonetics...

The Hermann Paul School of Linguistics (HPSL), a collaboration between the University of Basel and the University of Freiburg, invites applications for the Hermann Paul Scholarship in Linguistics 2026/2027. This doctoral scholarship is based in Basel, Switzerland, with the doctorate commencing between 1 March and 1 April 2027. The programme supports research in German Linguistics, Ibero-Romance/Spanish Linguistics, and English Linguistics. Doctoral candidates join an international, inter-univers...

The Hermann Paul School of Linguistics (HPSL), jointly connected with the University of Basel in Switzerland and the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg in Germany, offers one Hermann Paul Scholarship for a PhD candidate based in Basel. The successful candidate may start between 1 March and 1 April 2027. The PhD project may focus on English Linguistics, German Linguistics, or Ibero-Romance/Spanish Linguistics. Candidates will join an internationally recognized, inter-university graduate progra...