Jobs and Fellowships

The NOMIS Foundation–ETH Fellowship Programme supports postdoctoral researchers at ETH Zurich within the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life (COPL). The programme is intended to foster the development of young interdisciplinary researchers in the field of the origin and prevalence of life who have demonstrated scientific excellence in the early stages of their careers, and to enable the conditions necessary to conduct interdisciplinary, fundamental and high-risk research with some level of independence and autonomy.

Application Deadline: 06 November 2026

Companies are increasingly expected to manage social sustainability issues within their supply chains. Several countries (e.g., France, Germany, Norway) have implemented supply chain due diligence regulations aimed at ending modern slavery and unsafe working conditions. However, such issues continue to occur within global supply chains. In this context, the successful candidate will conduct doctoral research using quantitative and qualitative research methods, including engagement with industry partners and analysis of secondary data. 

Application Deadline: 30 November 2026

This PhD project investigates coupled sustainability transitions across urban sectors. Building on an existing interdisciplinary agent-based model (ABM) of the energy transition in Lausanne, the candidate will extend the framework to analyze interactions between urban sectors (initially energy and food). A key focus is placed on how provisioning systems (infrastructures, institutions, markets, technologies, and practices) enable or constrain transitions and influence tipping dynamics.

Application Deadline: 12 November 2026

This PhD project examines how urban planning interventions and changes in provisioning systems influence citizens’ perceptions, behavioral choices, and subjective well-being—and how these changes translate into resource demand and urban socio-metabolic profiles. The PhD is part of an interdisciplinary collaboration between EPFL and the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, combining spatial/quantitative analysis with empirical methods (surveys, discrete choice experiments, interviews, stakeholder workshops).

Application Deadline: 12 November 2026

The main responsibilities of the Early PostDoc are:

• Research about drought management and water conflicts in agriculture and between different sectors, focusing on user and protection conflicts under climate extremes in general, high and low waters in particular.

• Interest to work on Swiss case studies and to apply different methods in social science research (e.g., social network analysis, content analysis, process tracing)

• Willingness to collaborate across disciplines (typically political science, justice, ethics and sustainability transitions) and workpackages (impact studies, agricultural sciences, and hydrology)

Starting Date: 01 December 2026

This PhD project is part of Workpackage 3 of NCCR CLIM+, which concentrates on questions of governance and justice around the regulation of climate extremes (such as droughts, floods, heatwaves, and heavy precipitation amongst others). The successful candidate will complete a PhD thesis at the interface of law and political science. Specifically, the thesis will investigate under what conditions law and politics recognize and define an event as 'extreme' and what this means for resulting goveranance responses and questions of justice.

Review of the applications will start mid-October and Interview are planned end of October; beginning of November. Interviews will be held online.

The Department of Nuclear and Corpuscular Physics (DPNC) of the Faculty of Science is one of the leading particle-physics departments in Europe. Its collider-physics programme is centred on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC — with heavy involvement in measurements and searches for new physics, in trigger and combined-performance activities, and with major responsibility for the HL-LHC pixeldetector construction — and on the FASER experiment and its upgrades in the context of the Forward Physics Facility. DPNC contributes to the Future Circular Collider (FCC) feasibility study through the Swiss CHEF and CHART programmes. Detector construction and R&D are supported by the department’s mechanical and electronics workshops, a historical strength of DPNC. The department is also strongly invested in gravitational-wave science, astroparticle and space-based physics, neutrino physics, and medical-imaging and translational-detector applications.

Application Deadline: 17 December 2026

Ein innovatives Forschungsprojekt zu nachhaltigen Social-Media-Ökosystemen wird durchgeführt und die Ergebnisse in wissenschaftlichen Publikationen, Konferenzen sowie im Austausch mit relevanten Stakeholdern sichtbar gemacht. Die Akquise von Drittmittelprojekten (SNF, Innosuisse, Stiftungen) wird aktiv unterstützt und neue Forschungsvorhaben mitgestaltet. Ein Lehrmodul im Bereich nachhaltige Digitalisierung auf Bachelorstufe wird durchgeführt und Studierende bei Abschlussarbeiten betreut. Das Institut Public Sector Transformation und das Departement Wirtschaft werden durch interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit und eigene Impulse aktiv weiterentwickelt.

Eintritt per 01 Januar 2027

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled individual to join the Statistical Data Science and Machine Learning Platform. Of particular interest are developments in generative modelling, operator learning, amortized inference, and how recent advances in scientific ML can be leveraged in climate change research, e.g., by combining foundation models with diffusion models for local/specific downstream tasks. Application domains encompass climatology, meteorology, hydrology, and societal aspects of climate change research.

Start Date: 01 February 2027