Individual projects

Research Scholar is a one-year visiting position. It is designed to support the career development of AI governance researchers and practitioners — as well as to offer them an opportunity to do high-impact work.

As a Research Scholar, you will have freedom to pursue a wide range of styles of work. This could include conducting policy research, social science research, or relevant technical research; engaging with and advising policymakers; or starting and managing applied projects.

Research Scholar is a one-year visiting position. It is designed to support the career development of AI governance researchers and practitioners, while offering an opportunity to do high-impact work.

As a Research Scholar, you will have freedom to pursue a wide range of styles of work. This could include conducting policy research, social science research, or relevant technical research; engaging with and advising policymakers; or starting and managing applied projects.

Increase your research experience by making a stay abroad!

Submission deadline: 05.08.2025 and 03.02.2026 17:00:00h (Swiss local time)

The Federal Council plans to reduce the SNSF's budget by 10 percent in 2027 and 11 percent in 2028. As a result, the SNSF will approve fewer applications for the Postdoc.Mobility funding scheme in 2026, 2027 and 2028 than before. We very much regret this. You can find more information on the cost-cutting measures here:

The Phillips Fund of the American Philosophical Society provides grants for research in Native American linguistics, ethnohistory, and the history of studies of Native Americans, in the continental United States and Canada.

The University Research Fellowship (URF) programme aims to support the next generation of research leaders to undertake cutting-edge research. The objectives of the URF programme are to enable outstanding early career scientists with the potential to become leaders in their field to:

In the framework of the of the International Research Centre “Innovative Transportation and Production Systems” of the I-SITE CAP 20-25 project (CIR ITPS), a one-year postdoctoral position is proposed for highly motivated candidates interested in rrural mobility and specifically in the adoption of autonomous vehicles in rural areas.

The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) and Project House Europe (PHE), both located at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, invite applications for their joint fellowship. The RCC fosters innovative research and education in the environmental humanities and social sciences. PHE promotes cutting-edge research from around the world on the history of Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.