Education

The Plant Science Center (PSC) has an excellent offer for graduate students enrolled or planning to enrol at ETH Zurich (ETHZ), University of Zurich (UZH) or University of Basel (UNIBAS).  The PSC is advancing the plant sciences curriculum, and the science and policy curriculum with innovative learning concepts, materials, courses, and doctoral programs, guaranteeing a new generation of excellent plant scientists.

This graduate experience will equip students with skills in fundamental science, science application and communication, stakeholder engagement, and interdisciplinary training to solve complex problems.

To address these expectations, the PSC offers graduate classes that complement the doctoral degrees (in Sciences) awarded by our three partnering universities at the doctoral level. The PSC organizes and co-organizes more than 30 graduate courses each year, in English.

The PSC offers two structured PhD Programs with fully accredited curricula, leading to training certification and a diploma supplement that will become a part of the doctoral degree (i.e., in Sciences) issued by the partnering universities.

The PSC PhD Program in Plant Sciences familiarizes students with frontier topics and skills in plant sciences. Hands-on training, through a series of workshops on digital skills, statistical methods, machine learning and artificial intelligence in the plant sciences is offered.

The Specialized PhD Program in Science & Policy trains young researchers in life, environmental, earth, agricultural, engineering, energy, and food sciences with skills for science-policy dialogue.

Both PhD Programs offer access to specialized workshops, symposia, and summer schools addressing the major challenges that science and society are currently facing.

Registration to the PhD Programs

The PSC offers numerous courses for doctoral students including transferable skills, digital and statistical skills, and research and technical skills courses.

For a full list of courses: PSC Course Catalogue

For course registration (actual courses): PSC Course Registration

Dr. Luisa Last (PhD Program in Science and Policy, Coordinator, psc_phdprogram@ethz.ch)

Dr. Bojan Gujas (PhD Program in Plant Sciences, Coordinator, psc_phdprogram@ethz.ch)

Dr. Jelena Rajkov (PhD Program Coordinator, Basel)