Do you have a Master’s degree and are looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland is now accepting applications for several funded PhD programs across a range of research areas.
1. Fully Funded PhD in Physics: Experimental studies of Classical and Quantum Spin Liquids
Summary of Funded PhD Program
At the Laboratory for Quantum Magnetism (LQM) we perform fundamental research in magnetism and correlated electron materials. Our core activities span from synthesis of novel materials over in-house experimental techniques in combination with low temperature, high pressures and high magnetic fields, neutron and X-ray scattering to theory and modeling. The LQM is part of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), a world-renowned research and education center, offering an ideal academic environment as well as an excellent connection to industry.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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2. Fully Funded PhD in Geomechanics
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The objective of this project is to develop a novel methodology through data-driven Machine Learning (ML) approaches for improving successful upscaling of subsurface engineering. A unique dataset from a metre-scale demonstrator of GCS in EPFL will enable fine training of the ML algorithms and the results will be compared to more conventional constitutive modeling approaches. Implementation of physical laws and multi-physics constrains may be considered for evaluating their impact on the accuracy of the results and computational cost. The methodology aims to significantly improve computational time and reliability of multi-scale modeling for the prediction of the macroscopic mechanical behavior of the involved geomaterials in GCS (caprock and reservoir).
Application Deadline: Open until filled
3. Fully Funded PhD in Catchment Hydrology and Geomorphology Lab
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Mountain regions are hotspots of land cover and climatic changes where the interactions of climate, parent material, topography, and biota define key ecosystem services tied to the cycling and storage of carbon in soil. Yet, our ability to quantify and predict soil carbon stocks and lateral fluxes across such highly heterogeneous landscapes is still limited. By integrating field monitoring, soil biogeochemical analysis, and numerical modeling of coupled ecohydrological and geomorphological processes, SOCscape will evaluate the dynamics of lateral soil carbon redistribution across environmentally complex and geochemically distinct landscapes.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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4. Fully Funded PhD in Nightlights image analysis for humanitarian applications
Summary of Funded PhD Program
As a PhD student, you will investigate the potential of deep learning models for processing and extracting information about humanitarian crisis from nightlight data and other remote sensing products. Early detection and characterization of said crisis is crucial for the operations of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which is a partner in this project. Challenges related to the nightlight images resolution (involving the development of super-resolution methods), the early detection of the crisis in a spatiotemporal context, as well as the characterization of the different types of crisis will be at the core of the research.
Application Deadline: 30.11.2024
5. Fully Funded PhD in Electrical engineering or Robotics
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Two PhD positions are available within the Dependable Control and Decision (DECODE) group of EPFL (Switzerland). The student will work in the collaborative framework of the National Centre of Competence in Research “NCCR Automation“, which supports research in automatic control across Switzerland. Each PhD student will contribute to one of the following projects:
- “Nonlinear data-driven control: robust closed-loop stability and performance guarantees”
- “A Bayesian framework for optimal control”, jointly supervised by Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate and Andreas Krause (ETHZ)
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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6. Fully Funded PhD in Experimental study of vortex interactions with application to hydropower
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Our lab specialises in the experimental measurements, analysis, and modelling of unsteady vortex-dominated flow phenomena, with past applications in bio-inspired propulsion, wind turbine rotor blade aerodynamics, and gust interactions. Our research focuses on unfolding the origin and development of unsteady flow separation and vortex formation and we have built a reputation for carefully designed and precisely controlled experiments, high quality temporally and spatially resolved field experiments using particle image velocimetry combined with synchronised measurements of the technically relevant quantities, such as aerodynamic forces or power output, exploratory data analyses to bridge the gap between our observations and understanding of the development and interaction of vortices, and the technically relevant quantities.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
7. Fully Funded PhD in gas-lubricated bearings
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The Laboratory for Applied Mechanical Design (Prof. Schiffmann) is looking for a PhD researcher whose mission is to create, model, investigate, and test novel gas-bearing designs to enhance their static and dynamic performance for high-speed turbomachinery applications in heat pumps, fuel cells, and waste heat recovery. The project is co-financed by an industrial partner.
Application Deadline: 30.11.2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD in Environmental Microbial Ecology
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The PhD project will focus on the environmental adaptation strategies of cryospheric microbial communities in response to climate warming and in turn gauge the downstream effects these communities have on GHG emissions and ecosystem functions in alpine permafrost areas. To anticipate the full potential of the microbial organisms to adapt to climate change the project will integrate understanding of both community population level changes and individual molecular scale adaptation strategies that allow organisms to thrive in rapidly changing and threatened permafrost environments.
Application Deadline: November 24th 2024
9. 02 Fully Funded PhD in Polymer Synthesis (LP)
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The Polymers Laboratory at EPFL (lp.epfl.ch) has two open PhD positions for a project that focuses on the design and synthesis of block copolymers that will mimic the structure and properties of mussel-derived proteins. The two positions are part of a larger, multidisciplinary project that involves other partners in Switzerland and in Canada and that seeks to integrate expertise from biology, materials science and polymer chemistry to produce strong and tough synthetic polymer materials using design and processing principles inspired by nature.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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10. Fully Funded PhD in Mid-IR Nanophotonics for Biosensing (BIOS)
Summary of Funded PhD Program
BIONanophotonic Systems (BIOS) laboratory at EPFL Switzerland (headed by Prof. Hatice Altug) is looking for a talented & motivated PhD student to work on the development of cutting-edge Mid-IR nanophotonic biosensors and bioimaging devices for applications such as diagnostics, pharmaceutics and safety. In a well-established laboratory, the PhD student will explore next-generation bioanalytical devices operating within the infrared band of the electromagnetic spectrum for chemical specific & conformational sensitive detection of biomolecules, biological and chemical samples. PhD work will exploit novel concepts including surface enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy (SEIRA) enabled by nanophotonic metasurfaces, hyperspectral imaging, state-of-the-art infrared equipment such as quantum cascade lasers and focal-plane array detectors as well as AI-based data science techniques.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
11. Fully Funded PhD in Dynamic Quantum Materials Laboratory (DQML)
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The PhD position, supervised by Professor Gregor Jotzu, aims at exploring the light-induced control of quantum magnets and their phase transitions, ultrafast dynamics of superconductors, and unconventional non-equilibrium topological phases. Experimental tasks encompass generating strong mid-infrared and THz laser pulses, as well as establishing detection techniques including ultrafast optical spectroscopy and novel magnetometry in a cryogenic environment.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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12. Fully Funded PhD in modeling social and environmental performance of buildings (ETHOS)
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The ETHOS Lab (Engineering and Technology for Human Oriented Sustainability) is seeking PhD students to work on projects related to inference, modeling, and optimization of social and environmental performance of commercial buildings. Hybrid working and other evolving patterns of behavior have added an additional layer of complexity to optimal management of building spaces and the organizations who use them. To address this complexity, we must expand our understanding of human experiences, performance, and well-being in buildings. Our research will therefore involve the development of tools and methods for better characterizing occupant behavioral dynamics in buildings and the social and environmental performance of buildings, leveraging survey-based and data-driven methodologies.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
13. Fully Funded PhD in Experimental study of fluid-structure interactions in hydraulic machines
Summary of Funded PhD Program
A PhD position is available in the Technology Platform for Hydraulic Machines at EPFL in Lausanne in he research group led by Dr. Elena Vagnoni. Since 1969, PTMH (ptmh.epfl.ch) is a centre of scientific excellence in research and development of hydraulic machines, specializing in performance validation, hydrodynamics, cavitation, hydro-acoustics, numerical simulations and advanced measurement techniques. This PhD position is framed within a collaborative project VORTEX-FLEX with the Unsteady Flow Diagnostics Laboratory (UNFoLD) led by Prof. Karen Mulleners at EPFL in Lausanne and granted by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE).
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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14. Fully Funded PhD in Polymer Precision Doping for Quantum Devices
Summary of Funded PhD Program
We are offering a challenging position as a full-time (100%) PhD Student at the Institute of Electrical and Micro Engineering at EPFL, Lausanne. We are delighted to offer a fully funded PhD positions as part of an international collaborative project aimed at pioneering new methods in quantum device nanofabrication. This Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) funded project, a joint effort by EPFL, University of Basel, and CNM-Barcelona, combines advanced nanopatterning, precision doping, and state-of-the-art surface characterization techniques to enable scalable quantum devices.
Application Deadline: 30th November 2024
15. Fully Funded PhD in Thermal Scanning Probe Lithography (t-SPL) and Nanofabrication
Summary of Funded PhD Program
We are offering a challenging position as a full-time (100%) PhD Student at the Institute of Electrical and Micro Engineering at EPFL, Lausanne. We are delighted to offer a fully funded PhD positions as part of an international collaborative project aimed at pioneering new methods in quantum device nanofabrication. This Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) funded project, a joint effort by EPFL, University of Basel, and CNM-Barcelona, combines advanced nanopatterning, precision doping, and state-of-the-art surface characterization techniques to enable scalable quantum devices.
Application Deadline: 30th November 2024
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16. Fully Funded PhD in Gas Bearing Supported Turbomachinery for Heat Pumps
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The Laboratory for Applied Mechanical Design (Prof. Schiffmann) is leading the TurboHeat project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, to improve heat pump energy efficiency by 20-25% using small-scale, gas-bearing-supported turbocompressors for HVAC systems. The project addresses key design and control challenges at small scales.
Application Deadline: 31.12.2024
17. Fully Funded PhD in Role of venation for fluid-structure interactions of flapping flags
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Our lab specialises in the experimental measurements, analysis, and modelling of unsteady vortex-dominated flow phenomena, with past applications in bio-inspired propulsion, wind turbine rotor blade aerodynamics, and gust interactions. Our research focuses on unfolding the origin and development of unsteady flow separation and vortex formation. We have built a reputation for carefully designed and precisely controlled experiments, high quality temporally and spatially resolved field experiments using particle image velocimetry combined with synchronised measurements of the technically relevant quantities, such as aerodynamic forces or power output, exploratory data analyses to bridge the gap between our observations and understanding of the development and interaction of vortices, and the technically relevant quantities.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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18. Fully Funded PhD
Summary of Funded PhD Program
We are seeking two highly motivated Doctoral Candidates (DCs) to join our research team as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network (DN) project: AlignAI. The AlignAI Doctoral Network aims to train doctoral candidates in the interdisciplinary Large Language Model (LLM) research field. It focuses on aligning these models with human values to ensure their development and deployment are ethically sound and socially beneficial. By integrating expertise from social sciences, humanities, and technical disciplines, the project addresses critical issues such as explainability and fairness, ensuring LLMs contribute positively to education, mental health, and news consumption.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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