CallforProposals:ProjectsinNanoscience

The Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI) launches a call for proposals for PhD
researchprojectsinthefieldofnanoscience.

The Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI) launches its

third call for PhD projects in nanoscience. Each
successful project will become part of the PhD
program in nanoscience initiated in 2012 by the
SNI. The selected PhD candidates will become
junior members of the SNI. They will benefit from
personal support and training in soft skillsoffered
in the context of the PhD Program and will be
invited to internal SNI events. Currently, the SNI
supports twentyfive research projects within its
PhDprogram.

interview in Basel with the proposers and a

representativeoftheSNI.Thedecisionistakenby
theproposers.

Funding:ThefundingcoversthesalaryforonePhD
studentplusoperatingexpensesforamaximumof
fouryears(SNFsalarybasis).Aflatrateof60kSFr
for a theoretical project and 65 kSFr for an
experimentalprojectwillbeused.

Please submit your proposal as one single pdf file

untilMay31sttoAudrey.Fischer@unibas.ch

Scope: The proposed research should address a

novel undertaking in nanoscience and nanotech
nology with roots in disciplines such as physics,
chemistry,biology,medicineandengineering.Pre
ference will be given to projects where the nano
science and interdisciplinary aspects are at the
coreoftheproposal.

On the first page, start with the project title and

names of the two PIs with affiliations (please,
indicate the faculty responsible professor). The
proposal shall follow in free format (max. two A4
pages in total). Add a CV of one page per PI and
merge all documents into one single pdffile. Use
thenameofthemainproposerasfilename.

Proposers: The target project proposers are

principleinvestigators(PIs)atoneoftheacademic
institutions in Northwestern Switzerland
(Universitt Basel, PSI, CSEMMuttenz, FHNW
Muttenz, FHNWWindisch, and DBSSE of ETHZ
Basel). Each project proposal has two proposers:
themainproposer("Doktorvater")andthecopro
poser. One of the proposers must be a Professor
(assistant,tenuredorTitular)attheUniversityof
Basel and member of the Faculty of Natural
Sciences. The proposers constitute the PhD com
mittee.Forsuccessfulproposals,themainandco
proposerwillbecomeseniormembersoftheSNI.

Timeline

Selection of PhD candidates: For all selected

projects, the SNI will launch a worldwide search
for candidates who will be chosen after an

SNIPhDProgram http://phd.nanoscience.ch

Submission

31stMay2014

Projectproposalsubmissionto
Audrey.Fischer@unibas.ch

30thJune2014

Informationaboutacceptance

JulyDec.2014

Searchforcandidatesandinterviews

1stJan.2015

Earliestprojectstart

MoreInformation
Contact

MichelCalame
Michel.Calame@unibas.ch