PhD student for Bedload Dynamics (f/m/d)
Location
birmensdorf, canton of zurich
Job Type
Full-time
Category
CAR
Posted
June 09, 2026
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL is part of the ETH Domain. Approximately 600 people work on the sustainable use and protection of the environment and on the handling of natural hazards.
The Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movement research unit investigates natural hazard processes in mountainous terrains, including landslides and debris flows. It is planned to fill the following position by January 2027.
PhD student for Bedload Dynamics (f/m/d)
As part of a research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, we are hiring a PhD student to investigate the dynamics and spatial-temporal variability of bedload transport. Special focus is on WSL’s torrential observatory at Erlenbach (Alptal, Switzerland) and novel monitoring methods including seismic nodes and/or fibre optic technology with distributed acoustic sensing (D...