CLS Doctoral Fellowship

Apply to do your Ph.D. in our joint academic program between ETH Zurich, Switzerland and the Max Planck Society, primarily the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart / Tuebingen, Germany. We are currently accepting applications to join our program in 2025.

In our CLS doctoral training program, Ph.D. students are co-supervised by one advisor from ETH Zurich and one from the MPI for Intelligent Systems, the MPI for Informatics in Saarbrücken or the ELLIS Insti-tute Tübingen. All Ph.D. fellows will register as graduate students at ETH Zurich and, upon successful completion of their Ph.D. project, will be granted a doctoral degree by ETH. The highly competitive fel-lowship program offers a wide range of activities including retreats and workshops. Fellowships are fully funded. The program language is English. 

Bio-inspired / Bio-hybrid Robotics, Biomechanics, Causal Inference, Computational Biology, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Control Systems, Deep Learning, Digital Humans, Earth Observation, Educa-tional Technology, Efficient AI, Explainable AI, Graph Representation Learning, Haptics, Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction, Imaging Technology, Machine Learning, Medical Infor-matics, Micro- and Nano-Robotics, Natural Language Processing, Neuroinformatics, Optimization, Percep-tual Inference, Probabilistic Models, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Scientific Machine Learning, Secu-rity and Privacy, Smart Materials, Social Questions, Soft Robotics, Statistical Learning Theory, Visual Ana-lytics.

Applicants must hold or expect to hold an excellent degree at Masters level in a relevant subject and must be enthusiastic about spending an exchange year during the Ph.D. at the location of their co-advisor. Good written and spoken English is essential. We value diversity at our institutions. If you feel that you meet our requirements, we encourage you to apply.