PhD Opportunities in Neuropsychology in Switzerland

PhD position in Precision Psychiatry and Depression Research in Bern, Switzerland. The Universitäre Psychiatrische Dienste Bern is offering a doctoral position within PRECISE-MDD, a CHF 1.99 million research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The mult centre study investigates how EEG- and EKG-based biomarkers can support the selection of optimal treatments for patients with unipolar depression, including antidepressants, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS),...

PhD position in Peripheral Neuroscience and Neuroimmunology is available from 2027 in the Cancer Neuroimmunology Laboratory led by Prof. Karen Dixon at the Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Switzerland. The department is a joint venture of the University of Basel and the University Hospitals Basel. The project investigates how peripheral neurons sense disease and influence inflammation, antitumour immunity, and tumour progression. Research will focus on sensory neurons, peripheral ...

PhD opportunity in Auditory Neuroscience at Inselspital Bern / University of Bern within the SOUND Study. The project focuses on state-of-the-art neuroimaging methods including MRI and fNIRS , together with cochlear implants and machine learning . The research goal is to better understand and predict speech understanding after cochlear implantation . This is a student-oriented research opening for candidates interested in sensory neuroscience, clinical hearing research, brain imaging, and data-d...

University of Bern / University Hospital for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Directorate of Teaching and Research (Bern, Switzerland) is recruiting a PhD student for the PROTECT-SH project. The doctoral project is titled Self-Harm and New Media and is embedded in PROTECT-SH , a Horizon Europe -funded international consortium with partners in seven countries. The research focuses on how social media use may promote or protect against self-harming and suicidal behavior in adolescents and young ad...

PhD position in Multisensory Development at the ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research , University of Bern, within the Multimodal and Multisensory Development Lab . This doctoral project is part of the SNSF Starting Grant project PREDICT (“Neural and Behavioral Mechanisms of Cognitive Development Across Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence: From Sleep to Multisensory Integration”). The successful candidate will develop and implement a multisensory experiment for a cross-sectional stud...

The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) in Basel, Switzerland is inviting applications for its PhD Program and MD-PhD Program in biomedical research. Research training is offered in a highly international and collaborative environment with strengths in neurobiology , genome regulation , and multicellular systems . Students work with internationally recognized scientists and have access to cutting-edge technology platforms, including computational biology, advanced imaging ...

Fully funded PhD and MD-PhD positions are available at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) , an associated institute of the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland . The positions are part of the IOB PhD and MD-PhD Program in Translational Neurosciences , which combines basic science, clinical research, and therapeutic development. Successful candidates will join one of the institute’s research groups and contribute to world-leading vision research and related tra...

Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) is advertising an International PhD/MD-PhD Scholarship in Switzerland for outstanding candidates interested in epigenetics , neurobiology , and quantitative biology . The program is described as a world-class biomedical research opportunity with cutting-edge laboratory research, strong mentorship, and excellent facilities in Basel. It is aimed at students seeking a fully funded PhD or MD-PhD experience in a highly research-intensive envi...

Doctoral Position for Synthetic Biology-Inspired Therapies at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE), ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland. The Biotechnology and Bioengineering group led by Prof. Dr. Martin Fussenegger invites exceptional candidates to apply for a PhD position in pioneering projects developing synthetic biology-inspired human therapies. The research sits at the intersection of synthetic biology, biology, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, and medical ...