Assistant/associate Professor of AI-assisted Biophysics at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Group Leader at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)

The School of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) at EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) jointly seek to appoint a Tenure Track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor in AI-Assisted Biophysics at EPFL and as Group Leader at PSI.

EPFL, with its main campus located in Lausanne, Switzerland, on the shores of Lake Geneva, is a dynamically growing and well-funded institution fostering excellence and diversity. It has a highly international campus with world-class infrastructure, including high performance computing. The EPFL environment is multi-lingual and multi-cultural. EPFL covers a wide spectrum of science and engineering and offers a fertile environment for research and cooperation between different disciplines. Research and teaching within its School of Basic Sciences include theoretical and experimental biophysics, biological imaging and physics of machine learning.

The AI Center, the Dubochet Center for Imaging, the Center for Biomedical Imaging and the Interdisciplinary Center for Electron Microscopy are further examples of interdisciplinary initiatives at EPFL related to the present search.

PSI is the largest research institute for natural and engineering Sciences in Switzerland specializing in the development and management of large-scale, accelerator- driven research facilities that require a high level of expertise and extensive experience. Just as EPFL, it belongs to the federal ETH domain and is located in Villigen, between Zürich and Basel. PSI researchers have leading expertise in the fields of future technologies, energy and climate, health innovation and fundamentals of nature. By performing fundamental and applied research, they work on sustainable solutions for major challenges facing society, science and economy.

Applications including a motivation letter, a curriculum vitae with a list of research outputs, a statement of research (max. 3 pages) and teaching interests (max. 1 page), as well as the contact information of three to five (for the rank of Tenure Track Assistant Professor) or five to seven (for the rank of Associate Professor) references who are ready to supply a letter upon request.

Application deadline: 15 November 2025

Applications should be uploaded to the EPFL recruitment page:

https://facultyrecruiting.epfl.ch/position/60817412

Enquiries may be addressed to:

Prof. Henrik M. Rønnow, director of the Institute of Physics
e-mail: iphysdirector@ epfl.ch

or to:

Prof. Michel O. Steinmetz, Head PSI Center for Life Sciences
e-mail: michel.steinmetz@ psi.ch

Additional information is available at, www.epfl.ch ,
http://sb.epfl.ch , http://iphys.epfl.ch , www.psi.ch ,
https://www.psi.ch/en/cls , https://www.psi.ch/en/cps .

EPFL and PSI are equal opportunity employers, they are committed to increasing the diversity of their members. Women are strongly encouraged to apply.