PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Psychology 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 invites applications for a 50% Postdoctoral Researcher position in family-focused, participatory sepsis research , starting in January 2027 or by agreement. The role is part of the PPIE/Family Work Package of Learn4Sepsis, a University Medicine Zurich research ecosystem for precision medicine and healthcare in sepsis. The postdoctoral researcher will lead work on age-sensitive patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE), research co-design across the Learn4Sepsi...

The Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich invites applications for a four-year PhD position in psychiatric neuroscience, focused on functional brain organization in autism. Led by Dr. Dorothea Floris, the project investigates individual differences in brain network organization in autism using precision functional mapping, computational approaches, and large-scale longitudinal resting-state fMRI datasets. The doctoral researcher will examine how functional brain organization varie...

The Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in computational modelling of agency and resilience. The role is part of the SNSF-funded project “Building Resilience: A Lab-to-Life Investigation of How Control Beliefs and Active Coping Develop in Stressful Transitions” , led by Dr. Laura Meine. The project investigates how psychological resilience is actively built and sustained during stressful life transitions. It focuses on ho...

The Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich is seeking a PhD researcher for the SNSF-funded project “Building Resilience: A Lab-to-Life Investigation of How Control Beliefs and Active Coping Develop in Stressful Transitions.” Led by Dr. Laura Meine, the project investigates how psychological resilience is actively built and sustained during stressful life transitions. The research examines how self-efficacy beliefs and coping strategies develop when people encounter unfamiliar stres...

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...

ETH Zurich and Novartis Biomedical Research are seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher for a collaborative project in Basel, Switzerland. The work sits at the interface of academic and industrial research and focuses on neuroimmunology, bioengineering, and therapeutic development. The project will develop and apply advanced human in vitro models of the blood-brain barrier to investigate mechanisms driving disease progression in Multiple Sclerosis. Building on an established multicellular, flow-enable...

The University of Bern is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in forensic meta-science for the project “After the Flood: Near-Future Scenarios and Countermeasures of AI-Accelerated Research Fabrication.” The project is funded by UKRI’s Metascience funding scheme and is led by Principal Investigator Prof. Sebastian Deterding of Imperial College London. Working with PD Dr. Ian Hussey, the postdoctoral researcher will contribute to the development of a roadmap for methods and tools that formalise “sc...

The University of Zurich is offering a fully funded PhD position at the Spinal Cord Injury Center of University Hospital Balgrist. The project, “Enhancing reticulospinal plasticity through paired stimulation to promote functional recovery after incomplete spinal cord injury,” focuses on developing innovative neurorehabilitation strategies for people with incomplete spinal cord injury. The research examines the reticulospinal pathway, an important neural system involved in motor recovery after sp...