Postdoc Opportunities in Literature in Switzerland

The Swiss Confederation awards the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships for Foreign Scholars and Artists each year to strengthen international exchange and research cooperation between Switzerland and more than 180 countries. The scheme is administered by the Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students (FCS) and is designed for young researchers from abroad as well as foreign artists. It supports academic and artistic mobility in Switzerland through a national scholarship compet...

University of Bern is advertising a Postdoc in Educational Sociology within the Department of Sociology of Education / Institute of Educational Science in Switzerland . The position is designed for researchers interested in educational sociology , educational inequality , social inequality , family processes , and the intergenerational transmission of inequality . The successful candidate will conduct independent research on educational processes across the life course and contribute to ongoing ...

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 ...

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...