Postdoc Opportunities in History in Switzerland

This postdoctoral position is based in the Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab at EPFL Lausanne , within a research environment that emphasizes state-of-the-art work, international collaboration, and interaction with renowned experts. The lab is presented as part of a strong team of postdoctoral researchers and PhD students, offering a dynamic setting for research at the intersection of digital methods and cognitive approaches to music. The project focus is centered on musicology with a digital...

Eawag’s Department of Fish Ecology and Evolution is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to investigate fish migration and life history variation in anadromous Arctic charr. The project examines how glacial inputs shape fjord environments and how these environmental differences influence the ecology, movement patterns, foraging, phenotypic divergence, and local distinctiveness of Arctic charr populations. The research will compare populations using glacial-fed and tundra streams, fjords influenced ...

ETH Zurich is inviting applications for a full-time postdoctoral researcher in Science, Technology and Society (STS) within the Ethics, Technology and Society research group in the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences. The successful candidate will develop qualitative, empirical research on how youth, parents, and guardians understand and respond to the impacts of digital technologies on children and young adults in Switzerland and Europe. The project, States of Anxiety: Exper...

Senior Research Fellow (Oberassistenz) in Cultural Studies and European Ethnology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. This is a postdoctoral opening (60%) starting in the spring semester of 2027, with the appointment beginning on 1.2.2027. The post is designed for researchers aiming to complete a habilitation while contributing to a dynamic department working across culture, everyday life, politics, globalization, migration, mobility, anthropology of knowledge, science and technology studie...

Postdoctoral opening in AI and interpretation , with a focus on LLM interpretability and explainability , in a project that combines technical and humanistic perspectives. The position is part of an SNSF-funded project and is described as a four-year postdoc with access to a strong STS, media studies, and digital humanities ecosystem in Basel. Institution/location: University of Basel, Switzerland. Funding: salary range of approximately CHF 68,000 to 78,000 per year, with good working and living...

Postdoctoral Researcher (80%) in Language Model Interpretability and Digital Humanities at the University of Basel , within the Digital Humanities Laboratories (DHLabs) and the research group contralab led by Prof. Dr. Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal . The project, A Philology of Probabilistic Texts: The Problem of Interpretation in Artificial Intelligence , is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) . The position sits at the intersection of computer science , natural language processing ...

EPFL’s Policy & Sustainability (PASU) lab in Lausanne is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow for a new SNSF-funded project on Managing a Just Transition to Net Zero . The project combines economics , public policy , political science , computational social science , and environmental science to study the social and economic consequences of the clean energy transition. Research tasks include measuring economic and job vulnerabilities at the individual and regional level, collecting original survey d...

Postdoctoral opportunity at Université de Fribourg within the ERC-funded project IMAGO – Visualizing the Constellations in Mesopotamian, Greek and Roman Art . The position is for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Classical Archaeology and History of Art . The appointment is 65% FTE for 44 months and is hosted at the University of Fribourg (Université de Fribourg / Universität Freiburg), Switzerland. This opportunity is especially relevant for researchers with interests in Classical Archaeology , Hist...

The University of Fribourg’s Department of Art History and Archaeology is offering a postdoctoral position within the ERC Starting Grant project Imago Caeli. Visualizing the Constellations in Mesopotamian, Greek and Roman Art (Project 101303087), led by Fabio Spadini . The position is focused on classical archaeology and history of art , with a particular emphasis on Roman visual culture , ancient celestial globes, and the iconography of astral myths. The successful researcher will study the Kug...