PhD Scholarships and assistant research positions at Zurich University, located in the city of Zürich, is the largest university in Switzerland.


PhD Student Position: Natural Products in Drug Discovery

Department of Chemistry

80 %

Scientific Proposal Writer (NCCR)

Department of Quantitative Biomedicine

40 – 50 %

PhD Position in LLM-based Voice Assistants in Early Dementia

Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care

80 %

Assistenz am Lehrstuhl für Osteuropäische Geschichte

Historisches Seminar

80 %

Ph.D. Position in Personalized Visual Analytics: Human Preference Elicitation for Ranking-Based Multi-Criteria Decision Support

Departement of Informatics

100 %

Ph.D. – Large Scale User Experiments with Recommender Systems

Department of Informatics

100 %

PhD Position in ‘Neuroscience of Motivation in Neurorehabilitation’

Clinic for Neurology

80 %

Postdoctoral position in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems

Institute of Mathematics

75 %

3 PhD Positions in Social Anthropology

ISEK – Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies

100 %1




Assistenzstelle

Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät / Prof. Dr. iur. Sarah Summers

60 %

PhD position in the field of law and human reproduction

Faculty of Law (URPP Human Reproduction Reloaded | H2R)

80 %

Research Assistant

Faculty of Law / URPP Human Reproduction Reloaded | H2R

20 %

Doctoral Candidate

Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning (DM3L)

80 – 100 %

PhD Position in Solid-Phase Peptide Synthesis (Industry Collaboration)

Department of Chemistry

80 %

Assistenz (Studierende oder Personen mit abgeschlossenem Studium)

Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät

30 – 50 %

PhD in clinical epidemiology and musculoskeletal health

Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute (EBPI) at University of Zurich, and University Spine Centre Zurich (UWZH) at Balgrist University Hospital

80 %

Wissenschaftliche Assistenz

Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft, Professur für Digital Higher Education / Digitale Hochschuldidaktik, Prof. Dr. Joshua Weidlich

50 – 55 %

Research Assistant

Institute of Education, Assistant Professorship for Digital Higher Education, Prof. Dr. Joshua Weidlich

50 – 55 %1




PhD candidate in the field of Religious Studies

URPP Digital Religion(s) / Department of Religious Studies

80 %

Doktorand:in / Post-Doktorand:in in Theologischer Ethik

UFSP Digital Religion(s) / Institut für Sozialethik

75 – 100 %

Phd candidate / Postdoctoral Researcher in Theological Ethics

URPP Digital Religion(s) / Institute of Social Ethics

75 – 100 %

2 Wissenschaftliche Assistenzen (mit der Möglichkeit zur Promotion)

Asien-Orient-Institut, Lehrstuhl für Japanologie

60 %

2 PhD candidate / research and teaching fellow positions

Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Chair of Japanology

60 %

Assistierendenstelle Gesundheitsvorsorge / klinische Infektiologie

Vetsuisse-Fakultät, Klinik für Kleintiermedizin

100 %

PhD Student position in Organofluorine chemistry and Catalysis

Department of Chemistry

60 %




PhD Position Kinderkardiologie

Universitäts-Kinderspital Zürich

100 %

PhD position in Biostatistics for 4 years

Department of Biostatistics at the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute

80 %

PhD position – Satellite-Based Monitoring of Global Glacier Dynamics

Department of Geography

80 %

PhD position in plant speciation

Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany

100 %

Assistenztierärztin/ -arzt

Departement für Nutztiere der Vetsuisse-Fakultät der Universität Zürich, Ambulanz und Bestandesmedizin

100 %

Doktorand:in / Post-Doktorand:in in Erziehungswissenschaft

UFSP Digital Religions / Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft

75 – 80 %

PhD Student

Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology

80 – 100 %

Research Assistant

Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology

60 – 100 %

Doktorierende:r im Fach Religionswissenschaft

UFSP Digital Religion(s) / Religionswissenschaftliches Seminar

80 %