Postdoc Opportunities in Chemistry in Switzerland

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...

This postdoctoral project investigates how the metabolic tumor microenvironment of pediatric neuroblastoma is organized, reprogrammed and potentially exploited for treatment. The position is part of the NCCR Children and Cancer consortium and connects the Laboratory of Exercise and Health at ETH Zurich, headed by Prof. Katrien De Bock, with the Morscher Lab at University Children's Hospital Zurich, led by Dr. Raphael Morscher. The researcher will establish and characterize genetic and/or orthoto...

The Adolphe Merkle Institute’s BioNanomaterials group at the University of Fribourg is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for an interdisciplinary project focused on lung tissue engineering and the hazard assessment of exhaust emissions . The research aims to develop a toxicity screening approach to identify highly toxic pollutants from different emission sources and to support the ranking of fuel and engine technologies according to their hazard potential. This project is part of the Horizon ...

EPFL ALCHEMY, the Laboratory for the Chemistry of Materials and Manufacturing at EPFL Neuchâtel, is offering a full-time postdoctoral position focused on polymer design for vat photopolymerization. The lab develops accessible chemistries and processing strategies to enable advanced functional materials and devices, with an emphasis on turning chemical design into new manufacturing routes. The postdoc project is centered on the development of either (macro)monomers for the synthesis of microstruc...

The Hybrid Photonics Laboratory at EPFL is recruiting a postdoctoral scientist to help shape the future of integrated lithium niobate photonics . The project sits at the intersection of photonic device engineering, electro-optic transduction, and terahertz science, with applications in frequency conversion , metrology , spectroscopy , quantum technologies, and sensing . The successful candidate will work in a young and ambitious laboratory environment and contribute to the development of first-o...

Eawag – the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology – is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for a two-year interdisciplinary study on the environmental analysis and fate of synthetic oligonucleotide therapeutics in aquatic environments. Synthetic oligonucleotides are an expanding class of nucleic-acid-based therapeutics. Chemical modifications that protect these compounds from enzymatic degradation in the human body may also influence their persistence, transformation, and bi...

The Micromechanical and Horological Design Laboratory (INSTANT-LAB) at EPFL is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to advance the design of flexure-based mechanisms. These compliant mechanisms rely on elastic deformation rather than conventional joints, enabling precise motion in demanding environments where frictionless operation, repeatability, reduced maintenance, and monolithic construction are especially valuable. The project focuses on developing a new design and modelling framework for f...

The EPFL Laboratory for Bio- and Nano-Instrumentation is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to develop next-generation MEMS probes and instrumentation for cryogenic scanning probe microscopy and quantum measurements. The project sits at the interface of microfabrication, nanoscale instrumentation, and low-temperature measurement technology. The successful candidate will contribute to the design, fabrication, and characterization of advanced self-sensing MEMS probes for cryo-SPM, with particular e...

Lab of Biomedical Microfluidics (LBMM) at EPFL is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for a project on highly multiplexed single-cell RNA-seq-based antibody discovery. The work sits at the intersection of single-cell biology, next-generation sequencing, microfluidics, and translational antibody discovery. The successful candidate will join a lab that has developed technology platforms in biomedicine and genomics and that combines a technology-development environment on the EPFL campus with a tr...