Postdoc Opportunities in Media Studies in Switzerland

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 positions in NLP, Human-Centered AI, and Conversational AI are available at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland through the SNSF-funded interdisciplinary project CREST-AI . The project sits at the intersection of Natural Language Processing , Human-Centered AI , Conversational AI , Large Language Models , philosophy, and law. The research aims to develop interactive language technologies that can detect gaps and misconceptions in user understanding and provide adaptive, ground...

Postdoctoral position at the University of Zurich in the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute (EBPI) and the Population Research Center (PRC) for the SNSF-funded project “Mapping Mental Health in Municipalities” . The project combines epidemiology , biostatistics , public health , psychology , political science , and statistics to compare sampling and recruitment strategies, including setting-based and participatory approaches, and to generate municipality-level evidence on menta...

Berner Fachhochschule BFH’s Institute for Digital Technology Management (IDTM) is advertising a Postdoc & Scientific Coordinator (80–100%) role. The post is shared by Nikolaus Obwegeser , Professor and Director of IDTM, who invites interested candidates to get in touch and discuss the opportunity with the team. This opening sits in the broad area of digital technology management , with relevance to management , business , information technology , and potentially computer science . The role appea...

EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) is advertising a Postdoc position in the Networked Systems Abstractions Lab (LASeR) in Lausanne, Switzerland. The lab works on programming languages and formal reasoning tools for networked systems , with research directions including: - Design and semantics of network programming languages in the NetKAT family, including quantitative and probabilistic extensions - Scalable verification using symbolic automata and related decision procedures - Rout...

ETH Zurich is advertising three postdoctoral positions in Circular Engineering for Architecture at the Chair of Circular Engineering for Architecture (CEA), led by Prof. Dr. Catherine De Wolf in the Institute of Construction and Infrastructure Management (IBI), Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (D-BAUG). The research theme is digitalization towards a circular built environment , combining circular economy principles with digital innovation in construction. The three pos...

EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) is advertising a postdoctoral position in Generative AI within the Laboratory of Visual Intelligence for Transportation (VITA) in Lausanne, Switzerland. The project sits at the intersection of Computer Science , Computer Vision , Machine Learning / Deep Learning , and Human-Robot Interaction . The successful candidate will develop new methods for real-time video generation , digital twins , and human-like avatars . Eligibility highlights include a ...

EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) is advertising a postdoctoral position in 3D Computer Vision and remote sensing within the Laboratory of Visual Intelligence for Transportation (VITA) . The lab’s research sits at the intersection of Computer Vision , Machine Learning / Deep Learning , and Human-Robot Interaction , with the successful candidate expected to develop new methods for remote sensing and work with aerial imagery and large datasets. Eligibility highlights: applicants shou...

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...