ETH ZurichAcronym | ETHZ | Homepage | http://www.ethz.ch/ | Country | Switzerland | ZIP, City | | Address | | Phone | | Type | Academy | Current organization | ETH Zurich | Child organizations | | Members | | Memberships | | Partners | |
Open OpportunitiesLucid dreaming allows individuals to be aware of and control their dreams, offering benefits for therapy, creativity, and skill enhancement. Techniques such as pre-sleep meditation improve lucid dream frequency and clarity. Sensory stimuli, synchronized with sleep stages, can further induce lucidity. This project aims to develop a closed-loop system to enhance lucid dreaming training and experience. The system will use recorded EEG data to detect sleep stages and combine pre-sleep meditation with sensory stimuli applied during the respective sleep stages. The lab's existing rocking bed “Somnomat” will be integrated to apply vestibular stimuli and additional sensory stimuli based on auditory or visual cues, triggered by physiological changes, or depending on a specific sleep stage. - Engineering and Technology
- ETH Zurich (ETHZ), Master Thesis
| Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) facades enable buildings to generate their own energy, reducing reliance on the grid and lowering carbon emissions. This project explores the current state of BIPV applications in Swiss cities and architects’ perspectives on designing these facades. - Building, Environmental Technologies
- Master in Integrated Building Systems (ETHZ), Master Thesis
| In collaboration with the Earth Commission, the University of Toronto School of the Environment is excited to announce opportunities two Post-doctoral Fellows (PDFs) or Research Scientists to join the core research team focussed on assessing “Safe and Just Earth System Boundaries” for Novel Entities (ESBs).
The following are the areas that will be addressed by the PDFs, with exact subject areas to be divided by the two PDFs based on expertise and interest of each candidate:
• Scan of methods that could be used to determine ESBs for a subset of novel entities. The methods that could be used include material flow analysis, life cycle assessment and other types of impact assessment methods.
• Undertake “horizon scanning” of the literature to document present and future novel entities that are or could transgress either a Safe or Just ESB. This scan will add the broad context to the case studies of specific novel entities.
• Undertake case studies of several specific novel entities to develop Safe (biophysically-based) and Just (according to interspecies, intra-societal and intergenerational equity) ESBs.
• Consider transformation pathways that moves society from our current situation to within safe and just ESBs. This analysis could consider novel entities in broad categories and could also focus in on the case studies undertaken for the ESB evaluation.
- Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
- Post-Doc Position
| Urban Building Energy Models (UBEM) often require detailed inputs such as window-to-wall ratios [1] and construction materials [2] to increase their accuracy. However, this information is typically neither stored nor readily accessible [3]. This thesis aims to augment energy models with information obtained from visual data using machine learning techniques. - Architecture, Urban Environment and Building, Computer Vision, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition
- Master in Integrated Building Systems (ETHZ), Master Thesis
| Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPVs) are increasingly being incorporated into urban building facades. Accurately modeling the temperature of BIPV cells is crucial, given its significant implications for urban environments. Elevated surface temperatures can alter radiant temperatures and subsequently modify microclimates, thereby deteriorating outdoor thermal comfort. While several studies have validated surface temperatures, they have not specifically addressed BIPV wall constructions. This thesis aims to address this research gap by modeling a case study in Switzerland and validating it with historical data. - Architecture, Urban Environment and Building
- Master in Integrated Building Systems (ETHZ), Master Thesis
| Optimal inspection and maintenance planning of road infrastructure is a challenging process, since decision-making needs to be made on the basis of uncertain observations of various origin. These uncertainties are linked to some level of uncertainty relating to varying environmental and loading conditions, modelling errors, inefficiency of the measuring system and so on. Although this issue spans over several disciplines, including social sciences, it is also quite commonly met within an engineering framework. The goal of this project is to build an optimal inspection/maintenance framework for different bridge materials and typologies, maximizing their service life and minimizing environmental im-pact, and address the challenges of infrastructure management. Thus, the student will work on some of the following objectives depending on their interest:
• Review established and state-of-the-art non-destructive-testing and rehabilitation methods and derive indications on which methods work better for which different bridge typologies/materials
• Utilize existing finite element models (in SoFiSTiK) of various bridge types to simulate various short-and long-term effects.
• Explore decision processes frameworks for modeling decision making in situations with partly random or decision-dependent outcomes.
Suggested Courses: Depending on interest: Method of Finite Elements (or similar) and/or Non Destructive Evaluation & Rehabilitation of Existing Structures
Suggested Competencies: Basic knowledge on MATLAB or Python
Possible to select as: obligatorishce Projektarbeit, praktische Projektarbeit, forschungsbezogene Projektarbeit
Limitation of offerings: 2 students (group work is possible) - Structural Engineering
- ETH Zurich (ETHZ), Master Thesis, Semester Project
| Ultrasound imaging with contrast agents such as microbubbles and nanodroplets
is a promising tool to diagnose and monitor diseases at the molecular level. In
our lab, we are interested in detecting soluble molecular targets such
as proteases in vivo. To achieve this, we aim to modify the acoustic properties
of microbubbles in response to protease activity by altering their shell
properties using tight peptide-crosslinked networks. - Chemistry, Engineering and Technology, Medical and Health Sciences
- Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis, Semester Project
| Latent diffusion models (LDMs) [1] have recently emerged as a powerful tool for high-quality image generation, offering superior scalability and training efficiency compared to pixel-space diffusion models. While the network architectures of LDMs have received significant attention, other design aspects of these models (for example the forward noise schedule and the autoencoder) remain underexplored. This project aims to enhance the characteristics of LDMs, e.g., quality and efficiency, by investigating various design elements of latent diffusion models.
- Information, Computing and Communication Sciences
- ETH Zurich (ETHZ), Master Thesis, Semester Project
| You will develop a diagnostic test for testicular cancer. The focus of the project will be on creating the biochemical protocols for the test. The project is in collaboration with a prelaunch startup and a hospital (USZ). Therefore, it is ideal for motivated students who want to have a direct impact - Analytical Biochemistry, Biological and Medical Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Immunological and Bioassay Methods, Interdisciplinary Engineering, Materials Engineering, Sensor (Chemical and Bio-) Technology
- Bachelor Thesis, Internship, Lab Practice, Master Thesis, Semester Project, Summer School
| Collaborating with a dynamic startup, you will work on designing, manufacturing, and testing microfluidic devices to quantify biomolecules associated with chronic inflammation, heart attacks, and tropical diseases. - Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Medical and Health Sciences, Physics
- Bachelor Thesis, Collaboration, Internship, Lab Practice, Master Thesis, Semester Project, Summer School
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