RESPONSE Projects
Energy Sciences Projects
Energy Transition and the Transport Sector – Assessing the Impact of European and National Policies on Future Drive Technology Mixes, Energy Use, and Emission Pathways - Bessie Noll (ETH Zurich)
Engineering the Policy-Enabled Transition to Sustainable Multi-Energy Sytems - Linda Brodnicke (ETH Zurich)
ROSE: Role of Bioenergy in Sustainable Energy Systems - Fei Wu (ETH Zurich)
Effective policy Mixes to Mobilize Finance along the CDR / CCS Supply Chain - Katrin Sievert (ETH Zurich)
Work in progress.
Plant Sciences Projects
Work in progress.
Land-Use Change Projects
Work in progress.
Accepted RESPONSE PhD Projects (Call 1)
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Project title |
Research field |
Host Org. |
Secondment partner |
Fellow |
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Unlocking Epigenetic Variation to Breed Sustainable Crops in a Changing Climate (ESR01), link |
Plant Science, transgenerational epigenetics, bioinformatics, statistics |
UZH |
MWSchmid GmbH, Switzerland |
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Wheat responses in changing climates studied by Asian varieties as underexploited genetic and genomic resources (ESR02) link |
Plant science, bioinformatics |
UZH |
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT, Mexico) |
Katharina Jung |
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Developing a source-to-sink value chain for Swiss industrial carbon dioxide via a holistic approach (ESR03) link |
Energy science, social sciences or engineering/system sciences |
ETH |
German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, Germany Bellona Europa, Belgium |
Linda Frattini |
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Energy transition and the transport sector – assessing the impact of European and national policies on future drive technology mixes, energy use, and emission pathways (ESR04) link |
Energy science, climate and energy policy, innovation studies |
ETH |
Swiss Energy Foundation (SES), Switzerland |
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Engineering the Policy-Enabled Transition to Sustainable multi-energy systems (ESR05) link |
Energy systems, energy economics and policy |
ETH |
Swiss Federal Office of Energy, Switzerland |
Linda Brodnicke |
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Plant reproduction: chromatin-based controls in the reproductive lineage (ESR06) link |
Plant science, microscopy imaging and image processing, cell biology, plant development |
UZH |
Bitplane, Switzerland |
Danli Fei |
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The role of biodiversity in sustainable energy transitions for charcoal (ESR07) link |
Land-use decisions, sustainability, social-ecological research and ecology, energy sciences |
UZH |
Nitidae, France WWF, Belgium |
Dabwiso Sakala |
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Towards improving forage productivity under future climates (ESR08) link |
Plant science, Quantitative genetics, statistics, Applied plant breeding |
ETH |
Barenbrug, France |
Reah Gonzales |
Accepted RESPONSE PhD Projects (Call 2)
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Project title |
Research field |
Host Org. |
Secondment partner |
Fellow |
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ROSE: Role of Bioenergy in Sustainable Energy Systems (ESR09), link |
Energy and food systems modelling |
ETH |
Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Switzerland |
Fei Wu |
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Quality-enhanced power semiconductor devices for reliable energy conversion (QEPSREC) (ESR10) link |
Semiconductor physics, Wide-bandgap electronics. |
ETH |
mi2-factory GmbH, Germany |
Manuel Belanche Guadas |
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Developing climate ready apple production systems in Switzerland (ESR11) link |
Environmental science, Plant biology, Economics |
ETH |
Swiss Fruit Association, Switzerland |
Laurent Giguere |
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Exploitation of genomic resources to advance forage breeding programs (ESR12) link |
Plant genomics, Forage grass genomics, Bioinformatics |
ETH |
DLF Seeds A/S, Denmark |
Yutang Chen |
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Towards improved crop resilience – discovering essential factors that control chloroplast development (ESR13) link |
Plant Science, Cell biology, Organelle development, Fluorescence and electron microscopy, Image processing |
ETH |
Photon Systems Instruments (PSI), Czech Republic |
Yuanyuan Liang |
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ChromoBreed: From Chromatin to Plant Breeding (ESR14) link |
Plant Science, Chromatin Biology, Epigenetics, Transposable elements, Plant breeding |
UZH |
epibreed AG, Switzerland |
Alberto Linares |
Accepted RESPONSE PhD Projects (Call 3)
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Project title (Number) |
Research field |
Host Org. |
Secondment partner |
Fellow |
| Unlocking genetic resources of buckwheat to diversify Swiss agricultural and food systems (ESR15) link |
Plant Breeding, Orphan crops, Buckwheat, Genomics |
ETH |
ProSpecieRara, Switzerland |
Fabian Hess |
| FARS - For resilient and sustainable farms and value chains from the perspective of the Agricultural Region Strategies policy tool (ESR16) link |
Agricultural economics and policy, Sustainability and resilience assessment |
ETH |
Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, Switzerland |
Paul Donadieu de Lavit |
| Sustainable storage for a resilient hydropower for a resilient future energy system (ESR17) link |
Hydraulic Engineering Sediment Management |
ETH |
Swiss Federal Office of Energy BFE, (Switzerland) |
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| Monitoring the effect of deforestation and reforestation on vertebrate diversity using river environmental DNA (ESR18) link |
Molecular ecology, Spatial analyses, remote sensing |
ETH |
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), USA |
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| Land-use effects on the functioning of anthropogenically-dominated landscapes (ESR19) link |
Ecology Biodiversity sciences |
UZH |
Swiss Academy of Sciences, Forum Biodiversity, Switzerland |
Simon Landauer |
| Legacy effects of land-use on tropical soils as constraints on the restoration success and service provision of tropical forests in Uganda (ESR20) link |
Forest ecosystem sciences Soil system sciences |
ETH |
Face the Future, Uganda |
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| Evidence-based evaluation of the roles and application of plant peptides for the sustainable improvement of crop resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses (‘PEPSTRESS’) (ESR21) link |
Biotechnology Crop stress tolerance |
UZH |
Syngenta, Switzerland |
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| Inferring legacy of human activities on tropical forest plant diversity with spatial genetics and remote sensing (ESR22) link |
Ecology, Social-Ecology Remote Sensing or Bioinformatics |
UZH | South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership – SEARRP, Malaysia |
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Accepted RESPONSE PhD Projects (Call 4)
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Project title (Number) |
Research field |
Host Org. |
Secondment partner |
Fellow |
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Policy Designs for addressing societal acceptance challenges in CCU/CCS demonstration and deployment (ESR23) link |
Energy Sciences |
ETH |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), France |
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FINCCS – Effective policy mixes to mobilize finance along the CCS/CCU supply chain (ESR24) link |
Energy Sciences |
ETH |
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Switzerland |
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Roles of chemical communication in forming plant-insect networks in a changing world (ESR25) link |
Chemical Ecology, Network Ecology Plant-insect Interactions, Information Theory |
ETH |
Office for Nature and Environment Grisons, Switzerland |
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Genomic selection 2.0: Developing targeted vs universal machine learning approaches for improving the rate of genetic gain in crop Species (ESR26) link |
Molecular Breeding, Genomic Selection Plant Genetic Resources, Genomics, Statistical Modelling, Linear Models, Mixed Models, Machine Learning, Deep Learning (Neural Networks), Genetic Gain, Plant Breeding |
ETH |
Puregene, Switzerland |
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Fermentation with functional co-cultures: A metabolite driven approach to improve cocoa bean quality, safety and sustainability (ESR27) link |
Food Biotechnology, Food Chemistry Food Analytics, Food Microbiology |
ETH |
Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Switzerland |
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Innovation strategies and policy approaches to support the transition to a clean energy system (ESR28) link |
Energy Science Clean energy Technology Innovation |
ETH |
RWE Renewables GmbH, Germany |
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Recruitment and Working Conditions
RESPONSE DP offers interesting positions at the interface of science and policy. While working in an international, interdisciplinary and innovative research environment at University of Zurich or ETH Zurich, the ESRs are jointly co-supervised by a non-academic partner organisation.
The ESRs are matriculated and have working contracts at University of Zurich or ETH Zurich. All ESRs are working in Switzerland. The individual secondment will take place in Switzerland or abroad (see table above).
This program offers a three-year full-time position according to the PhD salary regulations of the University Zurich or ETH Zurich and according to EU regulations for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Early Stage Researchers. The gross salary will not be lower than CHF 3920.