20 faculty engineering mechanical jobs found in Zürich

The research of the Human-​centered Sensing Laboratory centers around physics, chemistry and medicine to gain new fundamental understanding in micro/nanosystems for receptors and transducers to advance their fabrication and application in chemical sensing. The development of new technologies from conceptuation to device engineering with validated performance under real conditions tackling healthcare and environmental issues are a particular emphasis. Embedded at ETH Zürich and closely connected to the University Hospital Zürich, our lab features a unique bouquet of fundamental and applied research to respond to our society’s needs. Project background Modern electronic devices (e.g. smartphones) are indispensable tools for billions of people. They interact with us through voice recognition, and activity tracking, give us orientation, record videos and connect us by communication with the world. Surprisingly, chemical recognition is missing. Equipped with...

The Chair of Alpine Mass Movements is part of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (D-BAUG) at ETH Zurich and the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF which is part of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL and thus of the ETH Domain. In our group, we develop numerical models and experimental facilities to better understand the initiation and dynamics of alpine mass movements such as snow avalanches, debris flows and rockfalls. Our research contributes to improve risk assessment and management procedures related to gravitational mass movements in alpine regions and mitigate their impacts. Project background Erosion and entrainment strongly affect the dynamics of alpine mass movements such as rock, ice or snow avalanches and debris flows. In rock avalanches, entrainment of saturated sediments during fast and undrained loading can lead to liquefaction thus enhancing flow mobility and possibly favoring...

The Functional and Molecular Imaging Laboratory, jointly affiliated with the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, seeks a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to develop new precision imaging tools for neurosurgery and monitoring of ultrasound-based tumour ablation treatments. The team effort includes active collaboration with neurosurgeons from the Lucerne Cantonal Hospital to develop and translate the new methodology into the clinics.Our Lab is devoted to the development of novel structural, functional, metabolic and molecular imaging systems and methods. State-of-the-art infrastructure for  in vivo  imaging includes advanced multi-spectral optoacoustic tomography, high-field magnetic resonance scanners, fluorescence microscopy, ultrafast ultrasound, as well as hybrid imaging platforms not available elsewhere. The preclinical phase of the project will focus on studies in small and large animal models, followed by a clinical translation of the new technique. Job...

You are invited for a PhD position in the Air Quality and Particle Technology group (Dr. J. Wang). You will matriculate in ETH Zürich and will also work at Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research.Position starting from May 2023 or upon agreement. Project background The research is related to the development of aerosol technologies for bioaerosol sampling, detection and risk management. Bioaerosols, including airborne bacteria, viruses, fungi, and fragments of these organisms pose risks to humans. Even minute amounts of inhaled bioaerosols may cause adverse health impacts such as infectious diseases, allergic diseases, and reactions to toxins or irritants. Emerging hazardous components such as antibiotic resistance genes and metal resistance genes highlight the evolving risks due to bioaerosols. Our group is engaged in the development of various sensors targeting biological pollutants, which have strong synergy with aerosol...

Inspire is a publicly funded technology competence centre of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) in collaboration with the Swiss MEM industry. Inspire supports the Swiss industry in researching and developing cutting-edge technologies, processes and methods. The inspire Product Development Group Zurich (ipdz) focuses on the industrialization of Additive Manufacturing to strengthen the Swiss industry's competitiveness. Project background Additive Manufacturing (AM) enables the transformation of products and services through a digital value chain and is a key driver for innovations. Additive Manufacturing offers a huge innovation potential for a wide range of applications, but it is still poorly understood how these new products, value chains, and business models look in detail. We have dedicated our research to understanding additive manufacturing in the context of the value creation of specific applications. Our work ranges from designing new parts and...

The Global Health Engineering (GHE) group is based within the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich. Our group does not have any mechanical engineers but is composed of environmental engineers, economists and social scientists. Our work is transdisciplinary and all research focuses on resource-constrained countries.The Global Health Engineering group of Prof. Elizabeth Tilley is seeking a Scientific Assistant in Data Science. Job description As part of our Open Science team, you will support us in developing efficient data cleaning processes, comprehensible visualisations, and online teaching events that provide an inclusive and safe learning environment. Your efforts will primarily focus on our openwashdata project funded by the ETH ORD Scheme by the ETH Board. Details of the call and the funded proposal can be found on openwashdata.org. Your profile This job is for you, if you care about data and code being easily reusable...

The Global Health Engineering (GHE) group is based within the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich. Our group does not have any mechanical engineers but is composed of environmental engineers, economists and social scientists. Our work is transdisciplinary and all research focuses on environmental and human health in resource-constrained countries. We are guided by the SDGs, with a focus on 6, 11, and 12. The GHE group of Prof. Elizabeth Tilley is seeking an Educational Support Engineer. We are looking to hire an individual who wants to stay in this position and help us grow as we expand over the coming years and decades. Ideally, you will be able to start on 1st May, though we will consider your personal situation.  Job description As part of the GHE team, you will be responsible for supporting the technical aspects of our research by assisting students (BSc, MSc, PhD) with the design, production and testing of...

The Department of  Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (D-​ITET)  comprises  18 institutes  with research focuses in the field of electrical engineering, but also in biomedical engineering and brain research.  More than 40 professors  and over 400 doctoral students work at D-​ITET . They conduct both basic research and applied research, often in collaboration with industry. The associated  mechanical workshop  provides its services for the research institutes, their employees and students. They plan the work steps largely independently, construct individual components and then program them. You work according to sketches, construction drawings or in consultation with the client. From the raw material cutting in our internal material warehouse to the cleaned, ready-to-ship component, you accompany the work process independently. As a deputy for the warehouse manager, you will...

The Rehabilitation Engineering Lab (RELab) at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zurich is an interdisciplinary group with competencies in mechanical and electrical engineering, movement science, neurorehabilitation and neuroscience. The RELab uses robotics, wearable sensor technologies, and non-invasive neuroimaging to explore, assess and restore sensorimotor function in persons with neurological injury, to promote sensorimotor recovery and independence.  Together with the Centre for Digital Health Interventions (CDHI, a joint initiative of the Institute of Implementation Science in Health Care at the University of Zurich, the Institute of Technology Management and School of Medicine at the University of St.Gallen, and the Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zurich), the RELab is working on developing an AI-based digital tool to support unsupervised and remote technology-assisted rehabilitation after neurological injuries,...

The Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics is participating in various large-scale experiments worldwide. One of these experiments is CMS at CERN’s large hadron collider in Geneva. Our institute has a multidisciplinary technology team with competencies in the fields of mechanical, electrical, and electronic engineering and in the fabrication and installation of scientific instruments and infrastructure.We are looking for a skilled and multitalented technician reinforcing our technology team at CERN, working on the CMS detector upgrade project. Job description As a technician in our group, you will participate in the upgrade of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter and contribute to the fabrication of the CMS barrel timing detector. You will participate in the development of components and test equipment, in large-scale fabrication, testing and installation of parts as well as in the preparation and operation of test equipment and areas. The activity ranges from...

The  Research Center for Energy Networks  (Forschungsstelle Energienetze –  FEN ) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ) acts as a bridge between academic research, industrial needs and social issues related to energy policy, shaping the transition to a more sustainable, reliable and cost-effective future energy system, by providing utilities, grid operators, industrial associations, and federal institutions with a technology-neutral and independent   quantitative analysis. The  EEH - Power Systems Laboratory  (PSL) is part of the Energy Transmission and High Voltage Laboratory (EEH) of the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (D-​ITET) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ). The scientific field of the Power Systems Laboratory comprises the analysis and design of electric and integrated energy systems including their planning,...

The Chair of Computational Mechanics of Building Materials in the Institute for Building Materials at ETH Zurich has an opening for a postdoctoral researcher in experimental fracture mechanics of meta-materials. The position is available with starting date  1. April 2023  or soon thereafter. Project background The Chair of Computational Mechanics of Building Materials conducts research at the interface between mechanics, materials and scientific computing. Research activities are focused on modelling the link between micro- to mesoscale properties of engineering and biological materials and their macroscale mechanical performance. The centre of our interests is on dynamic fracture, earthquake source mechanics, topologically interlocked materials, early-age structural build-up of cement, corrosion-induced cracking in concrete, and granular material mechanics. The overall objective is a fundamental understanding of the multi-scale and multi-physical...

Postdoc position: experimental fracture mechanics of meta-materials 80%-100%, Zurich, fixed-term print Drucken  The Chair of Computational Mechanics of Building Materials in the Institute for Building Materials at ETH Zurich has an opening for a postdoctoral researcher in experimental fracture mechanics of meta-materials. The position is available with starting date of  1st April 2023  or soon thereafter. Project background The Chair of Computational Mechanics of Building Materials conducts research at the interface between mechanics, materials and scientific computing. Research activities are focused on modelling the link between micro- to mesoscale properties of engineering and biological materials and their macroscale mechanical performance. The centre of our interests is on dynamic fracture, earthquake source mechanics, topologically interlocked materials, early-age structural build-up of cement, corrosion-induced cracking...

The Ethics, Technology and Society research group in the department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (D-GESS), led by Prof. Dr Margarita Boenig-Liptsin, is inviting applications for a  Post-doctoral researcher in Science, Technology and Society . The position is initially limited to two years, with a possibility for extension, 100% time. You will start on April 1, 2023, or by arrangement, but no later than July 1, 2023.Research in the Ethics, Technology and Society group is on the mutual interplay of science, technology and society using frameworks and methods from Science, Technology & Society (STS), history, philosophy, anthropology, critical theory, and the arts. We privilege interpretive, qualitative methods that combine situated ethnographic detail with deep knowledge of cultural contexts and histories, ideally in a cross-national comparative perspective. Project background You are expected to develop your own research project...

The Computer Security Group is a research group in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zürich.We are interested in a variety of hot topics in the area of systems security with a special focus on hardware. The aim of the group is to improve the security of modern computer systems. To do that, we often build novel analysis techniques to uncover previously-unknown attack surfaces and when appropriate we design and implement new systems to protect against various classes of attacks. This means that the group does heavy technical work, from building low-level systems to analyzing hardware components. Examples of our research topics include hardware design security, microarchitectural security, and operating system security to name a few.  Job description As a new member of the group, you are supposed to contribute to research activities in the group and gradually build your own independent research profile according to...

The Computer Security Group is a research group in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zürich.We are interested in a variety of hot topics in the area of systems and hardware security. The aim of the group is to improve the security of modern computer systems. To do that, we often build novel analysis techniques to uncover previously-unknown attack surfaces and when appropriate we design and implement new systems to protect against various classes of attacks. This means that the group does heavy technical work, from building low-level systems to analyzing hardware components. Examples of our research topics include hardware design security, microarchitectural security, and operating system security to name a few. Job description We are looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to join our group. You will collaborate closely with the PhD students while establishing a new line of research in the group. You are...

The Chair of Alpine Mass Movements is part of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (D-BAUG) at ETH Zurich and the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF which is part of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL and thus of the ETH Domain. In our group, we develop numerical models and experimental facilities to better understand the initiation and dynamics of alpine mass movements such as snow avalanches, debris flows and rockfalls. Our research contributes to improve risk assessment and management procedures related to gravitational mass movements in alpine regions and mitigate their impacts. Project background Instabilities in glaciers and rock walls can trigger complex process chains involving rock, ice and snow avalanches and outburst floods. Global warming could contribute to an increase in the frequency and magnitude of such catastrophic events. Their anticipation is thus of utmost importance to...