Postdoc Opportunities in Mining Engineering in Switzerland

EPFL PV-Lab in Neuchâtel is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher in photovoltaic recycling and circularity . The position sits at the interface of research, technology development, project management, and industrial collaboration, with a strong focus on sustainable photovoltaic technologies. The successful candidate will develop and optimize recycling approaches for silicon-based and other PV modules, including mechanical, thermo-mechanical, delamination, and advanced separation processes. Resea...

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...

The University of Basel (Department of Environmental Sciences, research group Ecology) is recruiting a fully funded postdoc in ecological modelling focused on global change , mountain plant ecology , and species range shifts . The project will model the relaxation times of accrued lags of plant species across Europe’s mountain ranges using a spatially explicit dataset on species-specific shifts and lags over recent decades. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with team members and ...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Tabular Foundation Models for Building and District Energy Systems This postdoctoral opportunity is a collaboration between the Urban Energy Systems Laboratory at EMPA and the Intelligent Maintenance and Operations Systems (IMOS) Laboratory at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) . The project sits at the intersection of computer science , electrical engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , and statistics , with a strong focus on machine learning for...

Postdoctoral Position in Bioinformatics and Plant Paleogenomics at the University of Bern , Switzerland. This two-year, fixed-term postdoctoral opening is hosted at the Institute of Plant Sciences and the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research within the SNSF Consolidator grant project ARIaDNA . The project focuses on bioinformatics , plant paleogenomics , ancient DNA , paleoecology , population genetics , and vegetation modelling . ARIaDNA aims to reconstruct how key European tree species ...

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...

EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher in Building Technology within the Structural Xploration Lab (SXL), located at the Smart Living Lab in Fribourg, Switzerland . The position focuses on building technology , with research on the characterization and circular performance assessment of building envelopes in Europe . The work spans construction details, building archetypes, and large-scale inference of building stocks, and is embedded in an EU-Hor...

ETH Zurich is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher in Exoplanet Atmosphere Characterisation and the Search for Life within the Exoplanets and Habitability Group led by Prof. Sascha P. Quanz . The position is embedded in NCCR Genesis and closely connected to the ETH-led LIFE space mission , a mid-infrared nulling interferometer concept aimed at directly detecting and characterising temperate terrestrial exoplanets around nearby stars. The research focus is on the atmospheric characterisation of t...

ETH Zurich and Eawag invite applications for a postdoctoral researcher in the adsorption and environmental fate of water-soluble polymers . The project is hosted by the Environmental Chemistry Group in the Department of Environmental Systems Sciences and is conducted jointly at ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) . The research focuses on how synthetic water-soluble and water-dispersible polymers interact with mineral and organic surfaces, soils, ...