University of Geneva Masters (MS) Degree Deadline: 15 March 2016 (annual) Study in:  Switzerland Course starts September 2016 Brief description: The Faculty of Science of the University of Geneva, in collaboration with several sponsors, has established an Excellence Fellowship Program to support outstanding and highly motivated candidates who intend to pursue a Master of Science in any of the disciplines covered by the Faculty.

University of Lausanne Masters Degree Deadline: 15 Dec 2015 (annual) Study in: Switzerland Course starts September 2016 Brief description: The University of Lausanne in Switzerland offers the UNIL Master’s Grants to international students who wish to pursue a Masters Degree at the University.

Swiss Government PhD/Postdoctoral Degree Deadline: varies, Sept-Nov 2015 Study in: Switzerland Next course starts 2016 Brief description: The Swiss Government, through the Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students (FCS), awards various postgraduate scholarships to foreign scholars and researchers:  University scholarships (Swiss universities, Federal Institutes of Technology as well as Universities of Applied Sciences) and Arts scholarships (schools of music and fine arts, only for a limited number of countries).

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 their research project in one of the participating research groups of their favorite program, according to their scientific interest. Advanced teaching and training courses are offered throughout the curriculum. The program language is English throughout. Ph.D. studies usually last 3-4 years. Education: Applicants must hold or anticipate receiving a Master’s degree or equivalent from a university in a relevant field before starting the Ph.D. program. Applicants accepted for the program will have to register with either the University of Zurich or ETH Zurich, depending on the affiliation of their future research group. Application: Our web pages provi...

Leadership MBA Program and Scholarship - Lausanne, Switzerland Redesigned in collaboration with CEOs and HR Directors across Europe, Bu siness School Lausanne ’s new MBA aims to develop future leaders equipped to address tomorrow’s business challenges. BSL is ranked in the top fifth of the QS Global 200 Business Schools 2009 listing. ” Leadership is to transform ordinary people into extraordinary people in order to achieve extraordinary things together,” said Daniel Vasella, Novartis CEO and Chairman of the Board. To mark the launch of the program, BSL has established a Future Leader Scholarship to reward a future leader’s plan for professional growth by granting him/her with a scholarship to the new MBA program. Siegfried Gerlach, President & CEO of Siemens, and Benoit Dumont, Chairman of JP Morgan, were among the executives consulted in designing the BSL MBA and will act as honorary BSL judges in selecting the scholarship recipient. BSL’s new MBA program focuses on personal l...

The IMD Scholarship Foundation is pleased to announce a new IMD MBA scholarship that will be awarded to support an individual coming from an emerging country and who works either as a social entrepreneur or for an NGO. The aim of the scholarship is to increase the class diversity and learning experience and to support a participant who otherwise would not be able to attend the IMD MBA program. Who can qualify Qualified candidates who have a passion to make a contribution to society through socially responsible leadership Currently working as a social entrepreneur or for an NGO in your home country or region 4-10 years work experience Making a significant contribution to your local environment, country or society in general Have leadership characteristics and the ability to have an impact in the class Have financial need such that you could not otherwise afford to attend IMD Strong command of written and spoken English Demonstrate a passion and committment for socially responsible lea...

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 their research project in one of the participating research groups of their favorite program, according to their scientific interest. Advanced teaching and training courses are offered throughout the curriculum. The program language is English throughout. Ph.D. studies usually last 3-4 years. Education: Applicants must hold or anticipate receiving a Master’s degree or equivalent from a university in a relevant field before starting the Ph.D. program. Applicants accepted for the program will have to register with either the University of Zurich or ETH Zurich, depending on the affiliation of their future research group. Application: Our web pages prov...

The Biozentrum together with the Werner Siemens – Foundation (WSF) launches the International PhD program in Molecular Life Sciences and encourages excellent students to apply for one of the prestigious WSF fellowships. The Biozentrum provides an internationally renowned research environment centered around three focal areas (Infection Biology Growth and Development, Neurobiology) and two core programs (Structural Biology & Biophysics and Computational & Systems Biology) and is dedicated to basic molecular and biomedical research ( http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/) . We offer advanced interdisciplinary training in the field of modern biology, a lively and interactive educational atmosphere, and competitive salaries with respect to European standards. University graduates admitted to the program receive theoretical and practical training and conduct a three-year research project under the supervision of a Biozentrum faculty member, monitored by a Thesis Advisory Committee. Bas...

PhD Position In Quantitative Finance with Applications in Asset Pricing, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Faculty of Economics, Switzerland The Faculty of Economics of the Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland, opens a PhD position in Quantitative Finance with applications in Asset Pricing, starting in Spring 2009. The Faculty of Economics of the Università della Svizzera Italiana, founded in 1996, provides an exciting environment in which to develop a research career. The Faculty is involved in scientific programs at Swiss level and in the NCCR-FINRISK competence centre in Finance of the Swiss National Science Foundation. The successful candidate will be integrated in a young, strongly research oriented team, with strong foundation in quantitative methods in Finance and Economics. For further information on research activities, please visit the web-sites: http://www.unige.ch/ses/metri/ronchetti/ http://www.people.lu.unisi.ch/trojanif/ http://www.people.lu.unisi.ch/gagl...

PhD Position in Financial Economics, University of St Gallen, Switzerland At the University of St. Gallen, Department of Economics, one 35% - 70% -POSITION IN FINANCIAL ECONOMICS OR QUANTITATIVE FINANCE Starting in March 2009. The position is part of the Prof. Enrico De Giorgi’s research group. It is assumed that candidates for these position are willing to start a Ph.D. in Financial Economics or Quantitative Finance at the University of St. Gallen. Ph. D. topics for a thesis can cover both, theoretical or empirical methods in Finance and Economics. Examples of recent research articles that could be starting points for a Ph. D. thesis can be downloaded from the web address: http://www.people.lu.unisi.ch/degiorge/ The successful candidate will be integrated in a young, strongly research oriented team, with strong foundation in quantitative methods in Finance and Economics. The group will be located at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of St. Gallen. The ne...

Several Ph.D. positions on speech recognition, handwriting recognition and robotics using Reservoir Computing available, Ghent University, Belgium Several fully funded Ph.D. positions are available in Machine Learning at the Reservoir Lab , part of the Electronics and Information Systems Department, faculty of Engineering of the Ghent University, Belgium. The positions are made available in the context of the following integrated projects: * “Self-organized Recurrent Neural Learning for Language Processing” (ORGANIC), funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Program. Details about the project can be found at the preliminary reservoir computing website . * “Reservoir Computing for auditory pattern recognition” (RECAP), funded by the Research Programme of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). The research concerns the investigation of architectures and algorithms for the efficient learning of large recurrent neural networks based on the Reservoir Computing c...

PhD Positions in Real-time Optimization of Dynamical Systems, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland The Automatic Control Laboratory (Laboratoire d’Automatique, LA, http://lawww.epfl.ch) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) is looking for a qualified candidate to undertake doctoral work in the area of Real-time Optimization of Dynamical Systems. The project will focus on the use of measurements for real-time optimization. In particular, it is proposed to formalize some aspects of NCO tracking, a methodology developed at LA, which turns a dynamic optimization problem into a feedback control problem. Applicants should have a strong background in dynamical systems, control, and optimization and hold a master’s degree in Chemical, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering. EPFL offers highly competitive salaries. The position is available right away, but a start within 3-6 months is possible. For application, please use the form pr...

The 2009/2010 Swiss Government Scholarships for Foreign Students, Switzerland Through the Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students (FCS), the Swiss Government grants foreign students university scholarships (Swiss universities, Federal Institutes of Technology). These scholarships are offered on the basis of reciprocity (fixed number of scholarships for each country) or within the frame of a scholarship pool (scholarships without fixed distribution by country). They are intended for students who have graduated from university (postgraduates) and who, by staying in Switzerland, will be able to further their education and to undertake research work in the fields in which the Swiss universities are particularly active. To a limited extent, scholarships are also offered for postgraduate studies at the Universities of Applied Sciences. This applies to the group of Western (AP-1) and Central and Eastern European countries (AP-2) included in the scholarship pool. Students must...

Two PhD positions will be available in 2009 in the computational physics group at the university of Basel in Switzerland (www.unibas.ch/comphys/comphys). The computational physics group of Prof. Stefan Goedecker focuses on the development of new algorithms for atomistic simulations and their application to challenging problems. A wide variety of methods ranging from force fields over density functional schemes to quantum Monte Carlo methods is used in these investigations. One project will be be done in collaboration with the experimental group of Prof. E. Meyer within the National Competence Center for Nanosciences. The aim is use innovative simulation methods to better understand atomic force microscopy experiments (see e.g. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236106 (2008)) The other project is within a joint Swiss/Indian research program and aims at a better understanding of complex clusters using density functional methods (see e.g Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 055501 (2005)) Candidates for the two posi...

International PhD Program in Life Science, ETH and University of Zurich, Switzerland The Life Science Zurich Graduate School houses several Ph.D. programs that cover distinct areas of the life sciences. 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 their research project in one of the participating research groups of their favorite program, according to their scientific interest. Advanced teaching and training courses are offered throughout the curriculum. The program language is English throughout. Applicants must hold or anticipate receiving a Masters degree or equivalent from a university in a relevant field before starting the Ph.D. program. Applicants accepted for the program will have to register with either the University of Zurich or ETH Zurich, depending on the affiliation of their future research group. Our web pages provide detailed ...

PhD Student in Economics The chair of “Macroeconomics: Innovation and Policy” has a job opening for a PhDposition. We are interested in candidates who have completed the equivalent of a Masters degree and whose interests coincide with ongoing research at our chair. We employ and develop macroeconomic, strategic and cooperative thinking to analyze short- and long-term economic and political problems. We suggest improvements, develop policy guidelines and design new institutions aimed at fostering the common welfare. Our?research can be subdivided into three areas: * Area M: Macroeconomic Thinking and Economic Policy, * Area I: Innovation, the Engines of Growth and Long-term Well-being, * Area P: Design of New Organizations/Institutions and their Foundations. Our chair is part of the CER-ETH (Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich), which belongs to the Department of Management, Technology and Economics. The PhDposition we currently offer is planned for research topics of ...

The Life Science Zurich Graduate School houses several Ph.D. programs that cover distinct areas of the life sciences. 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 their research project in one of the participating research groups of their favorite program, according to their scientific interest. Advanced teaching and training courses are offered throughout the curriculum. The program language is English throughout. Applicants must hold or anticipate receiving a Masters degree or equivalent from a university in a relevant field before starting the Ph.D. program. Applicants accepted for the program will have to register with either the University of Zurich or ETH Zurich, depending on the affiliation of their future research group. Application deadlines: July 1st and December 1st Ph.D. studies usually last 3-4 years Our web pages provide detailed...

Two PhD students in biomedical engineering (one computational and one experimental) are sought at ETH Zurich within an international collaborative project with The University of Western Australia and the University of Bern, Switzerland. The goal of this project is to improve the understanding of normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) and to find novel treatments for this condition. Job description and candidate profile (computational position) The successful candidate is expected to work on the combined computational and analytical modeling of the interaction of intracranial blood flow with the dynamics of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The basis of the models will be magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) datasets. This candidate must have a: * Master degree or equivalent in mechanical or biomedical engineering or a similar field * Solid background in applied computational fluid dynamics (CFD) * Programming experience in C, Fortran or other high-level languages * Solid command ...

Post-doctoral positions are available from January 1st 2008 (or upon agreement) in our laboratory at the Institute of Biochemistry, ETH in Zurich. We are looking for highly motivated scientists with a strong background in cellular and molecular biology. We offer a friendly, enthusiastic and interactive environment. Our staff is international and the working language is English. Our group is interested in the functional characterization of Telomeric Repeat containing RNA (TERRA), a recently discovered component of mammalian telomeres (for more information please visit: http://www.bc.biol.ethz.ch/box_feeder/people/groups/azzalin/ ). Possible research topics include TERRA regulation during cancer development or cellular senescence and the discovery and characterization of novel TERRA regulators. We will exploit combinations of genetic, cell biological and biochemical approaches available in mammalian cell cultures. Applications including CV and names of two referees can be sent (if possib...

Graduate student positions are available from January 1st 2008 (or upon agreement) in our laboratory at the Institute of Biochemistry, ETH in Zurich. The project aims to elucidate the function of Telomeric Repeat containing RNA (TERRA) at chromosome ends in mammalian cells (for more information please visit this link). We will exploit combinations of genetic, cell-biological and biochemical tools available in mammalian cell cultures to reveal possible TERRA-associated roles in telomere length maintenance, cancer etiology and cellular senescence. We are seeking motivated students with a background in molecular biology and tissue culture. We offer a friendly, enthusiastic and interactive environment. Our staff is international and the working language is English. Applications including CV and names of two referees can be sent (if possible electronically) to: Claus M. Azzalin, PhD Institute of Biochemistry Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) ETH-Hönggerberg CH-8093 Zürich, Switzer...