
«In the SNI PhD School, we get an excellent scientific education, learn how to work in interdisciplinary and international teams, and to think in a joined-up way.»
Nora Sauter, former PhD student at the SNI PhD School
The SNI PhD School
In 2012, the Swiss Nanoscience Institute founded a PhD School to promote the education of young researchers in the nanosciences. The research activities address the cutting edge scientific and interdisciplinary approach of nanoscience and technology and root in disciplines such as physics, chemistry, biology, medicine and engineering.
Each doctoral student is supervised by two scientists from the interdisciplinary SNI network and belongs to the successful SNI PhD School. Within this network, scientific exchange and networking is of great importance. All PhD student participate in these meetings of the network as well as in their Winter School and several courses that are specifically designed to meet the requirements of the doctoral students.
The PhD School is highly international. Currently, PhD students from 14 different countries are enrolled.
You can now apply for new PhD projects:
P2001 Imaging cardiovascular macro- and microstructure using HfO2 nanocrystals as X-ray tomography contrast agents
(De Roo/Bonnin)
(A candidate has already been identified, please do not apply for this project)
Description Video
P2002 A Death-Dealing Bacterial Nanomachine
(Lim/Basler)
(A candidate has already been identified, please do not apply for this project)
Description
P2004 Local Manipulation of Spin Domains in a Multiferroic Rashba Semiconductor
(Muntwiler/Jung)
Description Video
P2005 Transmembrane protein-mediated loading of synthetic compartments
(Palivan/Kammerer)
(A candidate has already been identified, please do not apply for this project)
Description Video
P2006 RESTRAIN – Reticular Chemistry at Interfaces as a Form of Nanotechnology
(Shahgaldian/De Roo)
Description Video
P2007 Development of nanoscale acoustic tweezers for mechanobiology application
(Tsujino/Lim)
(A candidate has already been identified, please do not apply for this project)
Description
P2008 Scanning Nanowire Quantum Dot
(Zumbühl/Poggio)
(A candidate has already been identified, please do not apply for this project)
You are interested and would like to apply? Please click the button below and follow the instructions. We only accept online applications.
Timeline 2020/2021:
May 31, 2020 |
Deadline for project proposal submission to Claudia.Wirth@unibas.ch |
June ‒ July |
Review process |
Mid August |
Information about acceptance |
August ‒ Dec. |
Search for candidates, interviews and hiring |
Dec. 31, 2020 |
Deadline for applications to PhD positions |
Jan. 1, 2021 |
Earliest project start |
Events/Dates
SNI Winter School online
22 January, 2021
Rhetoric seminar
8-9 April, 2021