PhD Opportunities in Education 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 Chair of Operations, Economics and Strategy (OES) at EPFL’s College of Management of Technology is recruiting a full-time PhD student to join its doctoral research environment within the EPFL doctoral school program in Management of Technology (EDMT). The position is centered on research at the intersection of operations, economics, and strategy, with a focus on organizations and their interactions. The successful candidate will work on the design, analysis, and implementation of innovative ...

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...

The University of Zurich’s Implementation Science in Health Care Research Group, based at the Medical Faculty, is offering a PhD position in the UMZH-funded Learn4Sepsis project. The group is led by Prof. Lauren Clack and focuses on optimizing the integration of evidence-based practices and research findings into routine health-care delivery. The doctoral researcher will contribute to the LEARN AND IMPLEMENT work package, which combines implementation science, human-centered design, and organiza...

The University of Bern is recruiting a PhD researcher for CONNECT: COupled Networks aNd Ecosystem sTability , a project investigating how spatial networks interact with networks of species interactions to shape ecological patterns and ecosystem functioning. Based in the Network Ecology Division at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, the project focuses on developing a general theory of stability and persistence in spatially coupled food webs. The research builds on an empirically grounded bi...

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...

ETH Zürich is offering a fully funded PhD opportunity in quantum error correction through the QuBriC Doctoral Network at the Institute for Theoretical Physics. The research will investigate the theoretical limits of quantum error correction, combining quantum information theory, algorithm development and numerical experiments. The project is suited to researchers interested in the foundations of reliable quantum computing and the analysis of quantum error-correction methods. The doctoral network...

The Laboratory for Intelligence in Design Engineering and Learning (IDEAL) at ETH Zurich invites applications for one to two doctoral positions in Machine Learning for Engineering Design , under the guidance of Professor Mark Fuge, Chair of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design. The laboratory studies artificial intelligence and machine learning in engineering design, with applications spanning healthcare, power generation, aerospace, and robotics. This is a general search rather than a ...