Are you looking to take your education and career to the next level? Do you have a passion for research and a desire to make meaningful contributions to your field of study? If so, a Postdoctoral Fellowships may be the perfect choice for you.
Attention all aspiring scholars and researchers! The University of Bern, Switzerland is accepting applications for our prestigious funded PhD programs. Apply to the University of Bern’s PhD program today and take the first step towards a rewarding and fulfilling academic career.
1. PhD Program in Natural history of respiratory diseases in children
About PhD Position
This project, funded by the Swiss Personalised Health Network (SPHN), will use data for research that is routinely collected in hospitals. We will enrich an existing national cohort study, the Swiss Paediatric Airway Cohort, which already includes over 4000 children seen in hospitals for respiratory problems. Instead of manually extracting information from medical records, this project aims to use data available in the clinical information systems of the hospitals and integrate them into the study. This will reduce manual work and provide long-term outcome data (hospitalisations) for all children (also those that don’t return questionnaires). Comparison with anonymous data from non-participants will allow to assess how representative study results are and put them into context.
Application Deadline: May 19th 2023
2. PhD Program in Cardiac Stem Cell Biology
About PhD Position
You will join a young and dynamic team that offers a fully established lab with state-of-the-art equipment, supportive working atmosphere and an inspiring scientific community. The position is available for the period of 3 years. Our research focuses on the identification of specific environmental cues and molecular processes that lead to maturation of stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes. Special stem cell culture methods, cutting edge imaging techniques, in vitro electrophysiological recordings and molecular biology serve as the basis for our investigations.
Application Deadline: 31.05.2023
3. PhD Program in Cryptophilology
About PhD Position
The SNSF project «Cryptophilology. Jonas Fränkel’s ‘underground science’ in a historical and political context” is based on the estate including the library and the crypto estate of Carl Spitteler by the Jewish scholar and edition philologist Jonas Fränkel, who was taken over by the SLA in Bern in 2021/22 and has been continuously used for research ever since is processed. Methodologically, it can be linked to the concepts of legacy awareness, work politics and publishership.
Application Deadline: 29. May 2023
4. PhD Program in Strategic Management
About PhD Position
We are a dedicated research and teaching department in the areas of Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The interface between science and business/practice. Our activities with further training offers, projects and events are part of the Bern Entrepreneurship Ecosystem. We actively work with various public and private partners.
Application Deadline: June 10th, 2023
5. PhD Program in ruminant clinic
About PhD Position
In a cooperation project between the ruminant clinic of the Vetsuisse Faculty of the University of Bern and the Department of Swine Medicine of the Vetsuisse Faculty of the University of Zurich, a doctoral position (m/f/d, 100%) is available. In addition to veterinary medical and social science studies on personality aspects of farmers with regard to the use of antibiotics in livestock farming, the calculation and presentation of treatment incidences based on data from national monitoring will be involved.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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6. PhD Program in German Linguistics with an interactional linguistic focus
About PhD Position
Along with Basel, the German department at the University of Bern is the oldest institute for German language and literature studies in Switzerland. With almost 500 students, six professorships, three assistant professorships and a total of around 70 academic employees, it is the second largest German institute in Switzerland. It consists of two departments, one for linguistics and one for literary studies. As part of the research project Texting in Time: Communicative practices of smartphone interaction in the process funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), a doctoral position with an interactional-linguistic orientation is to be filled from September 1, 2023 or by agreement.
Application Deadline: May 17, 2023
7. PhD Program in data science
About PhD Position
The professorship for quantitative methods in business administration represents the areas of operations research, data analysis, project management and big data in research and teaching at the Department of Business Administration at the University of Bern. We will fill a doctoral and assistant position as soon as possible or by arrangement. The aim of the research is the development of models and algorithms for applications in the field of data science.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
8. PhD Program in Data Science
About PhD Position
The Chair of Quantitative Methods at the Department of Business Administration of the University of Bern is dedicated to research and teaching in the fields of Operations Research, Data Science, Project Management, and Big Data. We are looking for a committed candidate to join our team as soon as possible or by an agreed-upon start date. The research objective of the position is to develop models and algorithms for applications in the field of Data Science.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
9. PhD Program in Sports activity and interoception
About PhD Position
The position includes working on the “Sports activity and interoception” project as part of a doctorate, in which you can implement your own research interests in the areas of sports science and sports pedagogy. The focus here is on examining the body-related self-perception of children and young people and the question of how this can be influenced through sporting interventions and targeted attention regulation. The effect that digital media have on the body-related self-perception of children and young people can also be considered in the dissertation project. There is also the opportunity to work on bachelor’s courses and to supervise theses at bachelor’s level as part of the research project.
Application Deadline: 31. May 2023
10. PhD Program in Combined Veterinary Residency
About PhD Position
In the scope of this residency/PhD training position the successful candidate will focus on the training in morphological pathology of farm, companion, zoo and laboratory animals during the first 2 years. After this time, he/she will join one of the research groups at our institute. During this 3-4 years period the candidate will focus on biomedical research and finalize a PhD project under the premises of the Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Bern (www.gcb.unibe.ch). The combined program will afterwards be completed by a brief period within our diagnostic unit and intensive preparation for the board examination of the European College of Veterinary Pathologists (ECVP).
Application Deadline: Open until filled
11. PhD Program in Microbial Interactions
About PhD Position
Bacterial pneumonia, such as that caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, is a major cause of death globally. Treatment can be complicated by antibiotic resistance and new treatments are required. The aim of the project is to understand the role of commensal bacteria in the human nasopharynx in shielding the host from colonization by pathogens which have the potential to cause pneumonia, and so to identify potentially useful commensals to prevent disease. Methods encountered during this project will include: bacterial and eukaryotic cell culture, sequencing and analysis of immune responses.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
12. PhD Program in German linguistics with a sociolinguistic focus
About PhD Position
As part of the research project Texting in Time: Communicative practices of smartphone interaction in the process funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), a doctoral position with a sociolinguistic orientation is to be filled from September 1, 2023 or by agreement. The research project aims to linguistically examine the process nature of everyday smartphone communication in German-speaking Switzerland and Germany on the basis of authentic screen recordings. The position is limited to four years.
Application Deadline: May 17, 2023
13. PhD Program in Cardiac Arrhythmia
About PhD Position
Join our dynamic research group led by Prof. Hugues Abriel at the University of Bern, Switzerland, as we explore novel molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying lethal cardiac arrhythmias. Our laboratory is based in the picturesque city of Berne, the Federal City of Switzerland, at the heart of Europe. Our work focuses on ion channel mutations in patients and families with genetic arrhythmia syndromes and the regulation of cardiac ion channels. In this project, we will hire two PhD students: one will focus on the biochemistry and structure of cardiac ion channels, while the other one will concentrate on cellular electrophysiology and single-channel recordings.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
14. PhD Program in Algorithmic Management
About PhD Position
As of July 1, 2023 or by agreement, we will be filling a doctoral and assistant position. The position is part of the research project “Algorithmic Management – Establishing Fair and Participative Shift Planning in Healthcare”, which is funded by the University of Bern as part of its digitization strategy 2030. The aim of the research is the development of models and algorithms for fair shift planning in healthcare.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
15. PhD Program in fetal programming of health and disease
About PhD Position
We invite applications for a PhD candidate position in the placental membrane biology research group led by Prof. Christiane Albrecht at the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Bern, Switzerland. The project will be focused on the effects that alterations in a variety of nutrient transporters and hormones in the placenta may have in programming the fetal brain, and the resulting phenotypes in adult mice in accordance with the developmental programming of health and disease hypothesis (DoHaD). The identified proteins will be tested in vitro, assessed in human samples, and manipulated in mutant mouse models.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
16. 02 PhD Program in Logic
About PhD Position
This SNSF-funded project is concerned with fixed points, recursive definitions, and proofs by induction, which are essential concepts in mathematics and computer science. In recent years, a novel approach to formal proofs representing concepts of this kind has become popular, namely non-wellfounded and cyclic proofs. These proofs not only derive propositions from axioms, but they also provide a formal counterpart to proofs by infinite descent, i.e. proof branches that are not well-founded but satisfy some global soundness condition.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
17. PhD Program in neuroscience in suicide research
About PhD Position
The multidisciplinary research group of Dr. phil. Anja Gysin and Prof. Sebastian Walther at the University Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Bern deals with questions of early detection and treatment of patients with suicidal experiences and behavior in adulthood. With a clinical focus, the NePsyASSIP project is investigating basic mechanisms of action in the treatment of people who have attempted suicide. We use a wide range of research methods, such as neuropsychological testing (Stroop, GoNoGo, etc.), clinical interviews/questionnaires, Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) and Motion Energy Analysis. A special focus is on the investigation of (neuro)psychological process factors, as well as on the fluctuation of suicidal experiences in everyday life.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
18. PhD Program in operations research
About PhD Position
The professorship for quantitative methods in business administration represents the areas of operations research, analytics and project management in research and teaching at the Department of Business Administration at the University of Bern. We will be filling a doctoral and assistant position as soon as possible. The aim of the research is the development of analytical methods for operations management, in particular for multi-project management.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
19. PhD Program in Statistical Data Science
About PhD Position
A PhD student position is open in Prof. Dr. David Ginsbourger’s uncertainty quantification and spatial statistics group at the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Bern, Switzerland. The recruited PhD student will be supervised by Prof. Dr. David Ginsbourger and affiliated with his group. The group is involved in collaborations with national and international partners from various research fields. These include geosciences, with a history of collaborations around stochastic modelling in hydrogeology, geophysical inversion, and atmospheric sciences (with links to the Oeschger Center of Climate Change Research). Recently, the group has also been increasingly collaborating with the Institute of Social and Preventive Medecine and the University Hospital around statistical machine learning for biomedical applications.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
20. PhD Program in Sports Science
About PhD Position
The job includes working in one of the current or future research projects with a sport-sociological orientation, eg values in sport, sport and integration, development of sport organizations. The implementation of own research interests within the framework of a doctorate is expected. There is also the opportunity to gain experience in teaching (bachelor’s degree in sports science).
Application Deadline: 05/20/2023
21. PhD Program in Psychology
About PhD Position
The position is part of an SNF project at the Institute of Psychology (www.kog.psy.unibe.ch) aiming to investigate the interplay of mental imagery and perception. Specifically, the project investigates how eye movements during mental imagery can inform about the underlying mechanisms. The project is structured in three parts. Part one focuses on how the encoding of stimulus material affects the subsequent generation of mental images. Part two aims to investigate the origin of individual differences in eye movements during mental imagery. Part three explores how perception and mental imagery interact and how this shapes reality monitoring. The eye movements in mental imagery will be analyzed with standard and innovative methods (recurrence quantification analysis).
Application Deadline: 31st May 2023
22. PhD Program in Spine Biomechanics
About PhD Position
The Spinal Movement Biomechanics Group of the Bern University of Applied Sciences and the Computational Bioengineering Group of the University of Bern have 2 PhD positions available in spine biomechanics to develop personalized numerical models aimed at improving the conservation treatments of scoliosis by determining loads on the vertebral endplate during novel corrective exercises, and modeling spinal growth in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. You will be part of an interdisciplinary project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and conducted in collaboration with Harvard Medical School (USA) and Montréal Polytechnique (Canada) as well as the Bern University Hospital (Inselspital) and the University Children’s Hospital Basel (UKBB).
Application Deadline: Open until filled
23. PhD Program in Jewish Studies, Christian Theology, Interreligious Studies or Classics
About PhD Position
The Institute of Historical Theology and the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Bern invite applications for four PhD positions. The four positions are funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and are part of the research project “The Jewish and Christian Samuel: Connections, Demarcations, Entanglements”, co-directed by Prof. René Bloch (Jewish Studies) and Prof. Katharina Heyden (Ancient History of Christianity and Interreligious Encounters).
Application Deadline: Open until filled
