Doctoral Position in Earth Observation and Remote Sensing

Academic Positions • Stockholm, Stockholm County • Posted July 09, 2026

Position Overview

Doctoral Position in Earth Observation and Remote Sensing

A PhD student is sought from autumn/winter 2026 for a research project at the Chair of Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, Institute of Environmental Engineering,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - ETH Zurich, on Multi-modal SAR for large scale rapid change observations in permafrost regions.

Job description


  • The research focuses on investigating/developing generic methods and algorithms in the context of multi-modal synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for the estimation of environmental parameter over arctic regions 
  • SAR is an active remote sensing technique for estimating a variety of surface features, as , displacements, quantitative bio-physical parameters and has found applications in several domains of the artic region, as
  • Among the most rapid and dramatic changes in the artic regions are retrogressive thaw slumps (RTS) 
  • These slumps hav...