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