PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Media Studies in Switzerland

The Institute of Educational Science at the University of Zurich is inviting applications for an 80% research associate or project assistant position in Educational Psychology , based at the Chair of Educational Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. The role is designed as a doctoral position and offers the opportunity to pursue an original dissertation project in digital education . The Chair of Educational Technology researches how teaching and learning scenarios can be designed with digital medi...

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...

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...

The DIAS lab at EPFL is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to advance database systems research at the intersection of data management and computer architecture. The project addresses the growing challenge of making data analysis keep pace with the rapid expansion of data collection, with a focus on efficient communication between database software, application layers, and underlying hardware platforms. Research in the lab spans hardware-aware data manipulation techniques, automated physical d...

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...

The Department for Law and Economics at the University of St. Gallen is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work at the intersection of law and technology. The research focuses on legal AI, legal technology, and the implementation of legal automation in practice. The successful researcher will conduct high-impact research, develop an independent research profile, and contribute to the broader law and technology community through publications and community events. The role includes mentoring mas...

The Singapore-ETH Centre is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to lead research on technology-enabled home rehabilitation after stroke within the Future Health Technologies Programme. The project addresses the need for scalable rehabilitation that extends beyond therapist-led clinical care and supports stroke survivors in their homes. The research focuses on the RELab tenoexo , a soft robotic hand exoskeleton designed to enhance upper-limb rehabilitation in clinical therapy and provide additio...

EPFL’s Networked Systems Abstractions Lab (LASeR) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on the design, semantics, implementation, and verification of abstractions for networked systems. The lab’s research sits at the intersection of programming languages, formal methods, and networking, with a focus on making network programming and reasoning more expressive, more precise, and more practical. The successful candidate will contribute to research on one or more of several directions highlig...

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...