Open PhD Positions at ETH Zurich Switzerland

Open PhD Positions

Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory
Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich 
(ETH Zurich) Switzerland

http://www.birl. ethz.ch/

PhD positions will be available at Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland. We seek strong candidates who 
are interested in novel mechanical designs and exploration of unconventional materials for bio-inspired robots.

Swiss Government Scholarship Program 2011-2012

EMBASSY OF SWITZERLAND IN INDONESIA
PROGRAM BEASISWA PEMERINTAH SWISS Tahun Akademik 2011/12
Pemerintah Swiss melalui Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students (FCS) menawarkan beasiswa dalam jumlah terbatas untuk negara berkembang termasuk Indonesia.

Beasiswa tersebut ditawarkan untuk mahasiswa PASCA SARJANA (POSTGRADUATE) yang ingin melakukan riset atau meraih gelar master di salah satu perguruan tinggi di Swiss.
Penerima beasiswa dapat melakukan riset atau kuliah di perguruan tinggi di Swiss yang tercantum pada halaman 3 dan 4. Program studi atau pendidikan berikut TIDAK termasuk dalam tawaran beasiswa ini:

PhD Position in Open Source Software

PhD position (Open Source Software)

The Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich, offers a position for a PhD student working in the project "On the Interplay between Social Interactions and Software Architecture in Open Source" funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), starting as soon as possible.

This project brings together the fields of software engineering, statistical physics, and management to reap synergies between them and to advance the understanding of the complex socio-technological dynamics underlying Open Source Software, beyond the scope of one particular discipline.

The aims of this project are:

• To establish a holistic picture of the phenomenon of Open Source
• To understand the statistical laws governing the evolution of the software architecture, which may help developers to steer development towards favorable architectures
• To study the self-organization of projects and the resulting social dynamics, on the level of both software users and developers
• To analyze the link between software architecture and the project organization, as well as between the corresponding dynamics, which may enable new management principles or provide tools for smoothening the interface between software, developers, and users

Requirements:

* MSc degree or equivalent in computer science or a related field
* ability to develop formal models and computer simulations
* ability to combine data analysis and modeling
* good knowledge about graph algorithms and social network analysis is a plus
* strong abilities to communicate in an interdisciplinary scientific environment
* interest in becoming acquainted with methods from physics, economics, and management

We offer excellent working conditions in a lively team and cooperations with leading institutions worldwide.

Applicants are kindly requested to send their curriculum vitae, list of publications, names of at least three references, and an overview of their research interests (all in PDF files), to

Ms. Rahel Dulik
rdulik@ethz. ch

For specific inquiries, please contact Prof. Dr. Dr. Frank Schweitzer (fschweitzer@ ethz.ch).

website link:
http://www.sg. ethz.ch/openposi tions/phd_ oss

PhD position in Quantitative Modeling at ETH Zurich, Switzerland

PhD Position (Quantitative Modeling)

At the Chair of Systems Design, we use methods from complex systems theory to understand the dynamics of social and economic systems. This includes methods from statistical physics, evolutionary game theory, micro economics, mathematics, and computational sciences.

We are looking for candidates with a strong quantitative background in one of these fields to fill in a doctoral student position starting as soon as possible, or by agreement. We offer excellent working conditions in a lively team and innovative research in close collaboration with leading teams all over the world.

Applicants should have excellent credentials and a proven interest in interdisciplinary research to explore scientific problems beyond the beaten track, both within the team and independently. But most of all, they should be highly motivated to work in the genuinely transdisciplinary environment of our team consisting of economists, physicists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. This also requires strong communication skills and fluently spoken and written English.

Applicants are asked to send their curriculum vitae, list of (and links to) their publications, names of at least three references, and an overview of their research interests (all in PDF files and in English) to

Ms. Rahel Dulik
rdulik@ethz. ch

For specific inquiries, please contact Prof. Dr. Dr. Frank Schweitzer (fschweitzer@ ethz.ch).
website link:
http://www.sg. ethz.ch/openposi tions/phd