Open Positions

Here you find potential opportunities to become a PhD or postdoctoral researcher in our lab.

ETH AI Center PhD or Post-Doc Fellowship @ Soft Robotics Lab

We are excited to be part of the ETH AI Center Fellowship. Are you interested in doing a PhD or Post-Doc in AI with me on topics such as deep learning methods for dexterous robotics manipulation, fast surrogate modeling of multiphysical robotic systems, and the automated computational design of musculoskeletal robots?

The AI Center's flagship PhD & Post-Doc Program is focused on advancing interdisciplinary AI research. This can be inside the AI foundations or between AI foundations and application areas. The idea is that fellows work with two excellent PIs which carry both equal weights in the supervision. Fellows have their primary office at the physical space of the ETH AI Center and become part of a cohort. Key selection criteria are ability for research excellence, interdisciplinary collaboration, and impact-orientation.

Application Deadline: Mid November

Please apply at https://ai.ethz.ch/apply and select my name in the application form.

CLS PhD Fellowship @ Soft Robotics Lab

The Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems (CLS) offers a fellowship program, where PhD students are co-supervised by one advisor from ETH Zurich and one from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen and Stuttgart. PhD students are expected to take advantage of the opportunities offered by both organizations and to actively seek cross-group collaborations. Each PhD fellow will have a primary location and spends one year at the other location as well.

Application Deadline: Mid November

Further details and the application are here: external page https://learning-systems.org/apply

RobotX PhD and Postdoctoral Positions

RobotX, the center for robotics at ETH Zurich, is continuously searching for excellent and motivated PhD students and Postdoctoral Researchers eager to advance the field of robotics through innovative research. The Soft Robotics lab is part of RobotX and hiring through this program.

We offer the following research topics in robotics:

Soft and Musculoskeletal Robotics: Designing and fabricating bioinspired robots using compliant materials for adaptable and safe interactions in an unstructured world.
Robotic Locomotion and Manipulation: Creating innovative solutions for legged robots and robotic manipulators to enhance mobility and interaction in complex terrains.
Biohybrid Robots: Creating robots from living cells, tissues, and synthetic materials that are powered by chemical energy and can interact with and reason about the world

Application Timeline

Applications are open between from August 15 until December 15 (applications outside this period will not be processed).

Final decisions will be communicated latest on the following February 15.

Further Information and Application Portal

To find further information and to apply for a PhD position, click go external page here.

To find further information and to apply for a postdoctoral position, please go external page here.

Please follow carefully the instructions in the corresponding link, incomplete application will not be evaluated.

PhD Fellowships from Technology Companies

A number of technology companies regularly advertise so-called "PhD Fellowships" in the field of computer science, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Learn more about it here.

Postdoctoral Fellowship Options

There are multiple fellowship options to fund a PostDoc at ETH Zurich. Reach out to us if you like to apply to one of the following funding schemes, we are happy to support you if the research topic makes sense.

Options for right after the completion of a PhD:

Options eligible a year or more after the completion of the PhD:

Speculative application

If nothing above fits your profile, then send us a speculative application by . Please include as a single compressed pdf file (<5MB) (1) a cover letter, (2) a detailed CV, (3) three professional reference contacts incl. a direct phone number, (4) your Bachelor and Master transcripts in English, and (5) links to your strongest publications.