PhD Opportunities in Neuroscience in Switzerland

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 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 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 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...

The University of Bern is offering a PhD position in the multicenter project PRECISE-MDD , investigating precision treatment selection in major depressive disorder. The study is a triple-blind randomized controlled trial examining whether EEG- and ECG-based biomarkers can predict the therapeutic effects of antidepressants, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, ketamine and electroconvulsive therapy in patients with unipolar depression. At the Bern study center, the doctoral researcher wi...

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 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...

The University of Basel is offering a fully funded PhD position in molecular microbiology within the Biozentrum’s Knut Drescher Research Group in Switzerland. The research focuses on bacterial biofilms and their roles in infection biology. The doctoral project will involve investigating bacterial communities using transcriptomics, bacterial genetics and confocal microscopy. This combination of approaches offers training in molecular microbiology, microbial genetics, imaging and infection-focused...

Fully funded PhD position in molecular microbiology is available at the Drescher Lab, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland . The doctoral thesis will investigate emergent behaviours in bacterial biofilm communities , with a focus on molecular microbiology and bacterial community biology. The project may involve approaches such as transcriptomics, bacterial genetics, confocal microscopy, bioinformatics, and microfluidic systems. Applicants should hold a Master's degree with a research the...