PhD Opportunities in Mechanical Engineering in Switzerland

Doctoral research in structural dynamics and hybrid construction This doctoral project at the ZHAW Institute of Building Technology and Process investigates structural dynamics and vibration mitigation in hybrid steel–timber buildings. The research addresses how building components and connections behave under dynamic loads, with the goal of supporting safer, more comfortable and resource-efficient construction. The doctoral student will review research on vibrations in hybrid steel–timber struc...

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...

This PhD project is part of the TurboImpact network, a Horizon Europe MSCA Doctoral Network focused on the aerodynamic design, optimisation, material selection, and manufacturing of small-scale turbomachinery . The doctoral researcher will work at STI IGM LAMD at EPFL in Neuchâtel within an international, collaborative consortium of 14 Doctoral Candidates and partner universities and companies. The research topic sits at the intersection of turbomachinery aerodynamics , manufacturing-aware desig...

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 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 ...

This PhD project at EPFL’s SCI-ENAC-AS group, Nanotechnology for Solar Energy Conversion , focuses on the numerical modeling and design of plasmonic crystals for solar-energy-related applications. The advertised research is part of the SNSF project “Coupled oscillations in plasmonic crystals” , which investigates how plasmonic oscillations couple in metallic micro- and nanostructures. The project aims to understand and potentially engineer plasmonic crystals with broad frequency bands of extraor...

TurboImpact is a Horizon Europe MSCA Doctoral Network project hosted at EPFL in Neuchatel, within STI IGM LAMD. The position focuses on the integrated design and optimization of small-scale turbomachinery for applications such as heat pumps, fuel cells, organic Rankine cycles, and gas turbines. The PhD project aims to build robust design methods for high-speed turbomachinery systems. The successful candidate will work on developing reduced-order models for gas-bearing supported turbomachinery, c...

This PhD position is hosted at EPFL’s STI IGM LAMD in Neuchatel and is part of the TurboImpact project, a Horizon Europe MSCA Doctoral Network focused on advancing the design, optimization, materials selection, and manufacturing of small-scale turbomachinery. The project addresses a broad set of technical challenges relevant to compact machines used in heat pumps, fuel cells, organic Rankine cycles, and gas turbines. Within this network, the doctoral researcher will contribute to research on mul...

The University of Zurich is advertising PhD student and postdoctoral opportunities in high-throughput vibrational spectroscopy of protein dynamics , based in Zurich, Switzerland. The project centers on developing or applying high-throughput vibrational spectroscopy to investigate how proteins move, change conformation, and function. The research sits at the intersection of spectroscopy, biophysics, molecular science, and protein dynamics, offering an opportunity to work with advanced spectroscop...