Doctoral Position in Earth Observation and Remote Sensing

100%, Zurich, fixed-term

A PhD student is sought from autumn/winter 2026 for a research project at the Chair of Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - ETH Zurich, on Multi-modal SAR for large scale rapid change observations in permafrost regions.

Job description

• The research focuses on investigating and developing generic methods and algorithms in the context of multi-modal synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for the estimation of environmental parameters over Arctic regions.
• SAR is an active remote sensing technique for estimating a variety of surface features, such as topographic heights, displacements, quantitative biophysical parameters, and has found applications in several domains of the Arctic region, such as monitoring infrastructure and permafrost-related subsidence.
• Among the mos...