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Ph.D. positions and Postdoctoral Positions

We encourage your application if you are a prospective PhD student or postdoc, even if no specific positions are advertised here, or if no listed projects are of immediate interest to you. For an application, we need a single PDF file that contains a CV including publications, a statement of research interests, and three references. If you are a Ph.D. student candidate we also need an academic transcript (a list of grades in university course work), scanned and appended to the same PDF file. We will only consider applications that motivate why you would want to join the lab. Obviously "mass-mailed" applications are ignored.

Multiple postdoctoral researchers have solicited and received funding to perform research at the lab for their own research projects. Relevant programs include EMBO postdoctoral fellowships and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships, Ambizione fellowships from the Swiss National Science Foundation, and international postdoctoral fellowships from the National Science Foundation (U.S.). If you are interested in raising your own funds, please also contact us with the application materials listed above.

Lab members are a group with very diverse backgrounds and research projects, unified by their interests in evolution and /or fundamental organizational principles of life. The lab has in the past hosted students whose primary education was in biology, but also physics, chemistry, mathematics, or computer science. Depending on the project, skills in computer science, applied mathematics, statistical physics, or experimental skills in molecular biology/biochemistry may be needed.

The working language in the laboratory is English. German skills are helpful but not necessary.

Zurich is a highly attractive city in beautiful surroundings, with a multinational population, and many educational and recreational opportunities.

Open Positions

None at this time

andreas.wagner [at] ieu.uzh.ch