PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Mining Engineering in Switzerland

The University of Basel is offering a PhD position in the Plant Microbe Interactions research group within the Department of Environmental Sciences. The project examines how complex soil microbiomes influence plant growth and defence, with a focus on the genetic and immune mechanisms that allow some plant genotypes to benefit from particular microbiome communities. As part of the Swiss National Science Foundation project “Decoding plant growth in response to complex soil microbiomes” , the docto...

The Adolphe Merkle Institute’s BioNanomaterials group at the University of Fribourg is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for an interdisciplinary project focused on lung tissue engineering and the hazard assessment of exhaust emissions . The research aims to develop a toxicity screening approach to identify highly toxic pollutants from different emission sources and to support the ranking of fuel and engine technologies according to their hazard potential. This project is part of the Horizon ...

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...

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 project is hosted by the Laboratory for Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS) at EPFL’s School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC). It sits at the intersection of urban sustainability, human behaviour, and socio-metabolic research, asking how transformations in urban provisioning systems can support low-carbon futures while maintaining or improving human well-being. The PhD will investigate how urban planning interventions and changes in provisioning sy...

The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for the HydraSense project within its Remote Sensing group and Land Change Science Research Unit. The project addresses how climate-induced drought affects forest ecosystems and how remote sensing can identify changes in tree water status and thresholds associated with drought-induced mortality. The postdoctoral researcher will develop and evaluate methods for retrieving vegetation water ...

Eawag – the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology – is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for a two-year interdisciplinary study on the environmental analysis and fate of synthetic oligonucleotide therapeutics in aquatic environments. Synthetic oligonucleotides are an expanding class of nucleic-acid-based therapeutics. Chemical modifications that protect these compounds from enzymatic degradation in the human body may also influence their persistence, transformation, and bi...

The University of Bern is offering two fully funded PhD positions in plant community ecology and ecosystem functioning , beginning in March 2027. The project, “Effects of transient plant species on ecosystem functioning and soil microbial communities, using the PaNDiv grassland field experiment,” will investigate how temporary or transient plant species influence the functioning of grassland ecosystems and associated soil microbial communities. The research connects plant community ecology with ...

This PhD project at EPFL’s Laboratory for Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS) explores how urban sustainability transitions interact across sectors, with an initial focus on energy and food systems . The project asks when transformations in different urban sectors reinforce one another, when they create trade-offs, and when they trigger tipping dynamics. The research is embedded in the ongoing “Tipping Transition” project, which studies the drivers and dynamics of renewable ener...