International Scholarships

Postdoctoral and PhD Student Positions in Neurochoice, the University of Zurich, Switzerland SystemsX.ch, the Swiss initiative in systems biology, has initiated a new project entitled “Neurochoice: Neural Correlates of Collective Decision Making”, with principal investigators located at the Universi-ties of Zurich, Bern, and Geneva, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. One part … [More Info]

Mobile DNA is DNA that can change its position within a genome. It is an integral component of most bacterial genomes, and also implicated in the spreading of drug resistance genes among pathogenic bacteria. Why does mobile DNA persist in genomes? On one hand, mobile DNA may be a very effective parasite, replicating itself at … [More Info]

International Ph.D. Programs Life Sciences The Life Science Zurich Graduate School consists of nine highly competitive Ph.D. programs, run jointly by the ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich. Each program offers research and education opportunities in a stimulating international environment for ambitious students who wish to work towards a Ph.D. degree. Accepted students perform … [More Info]

Universität Zürich, Geographisches Institut, Abt. GIVA Representation of geographic relevance in mobile applications The Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis group at the University of Zurich invites applications for a doctoral research assistant position in Geographic Information Science/Geovisualization to work on a 3-year project. The highly motivated, successful applicant will be asked to develop methods for … [More Info]

Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS), ETH Zurich (Switzerland) The Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) at ETH Zurich seeks a PhD Student (60%) interested in writing his/her PhD thesis in the context of a project on water management in the Zambezi river basin. Research area: Your PhD research will be part of … [More Info]

The candidate is expected to do research during a period of four years leading to a doctoral thesis. In addition, he or she will be involved in teaching activities. A master’s degree in economics, mathematics or physics is required. The focus of the research in our group is on microeconomics, in particular, industrial organization. We … [More Info]

The distributed computing group is a young research group at the department of information technology and electrical engineering at ETH Zurich. Currently we are ten members. We are interested in a variety of hot topics in the area of distributed computing, such as distributed algorithms, peer-to-peer computing, wireless ad hoc or sensor networks, or social … [More Info]