Doctoral Position in Earth Observation and Remote Sensing

Doctoral Position in Earth Observation and Remote Sensing

A doctoral student is sought from spring 2026 for a research project at the Institute of Environmental Engineering (IFU), Chair Earth Observation at the ETH Zürich on Snow and ice parameter estimation using high frequency multi-modal SAR.

• The research focuses on the retrieval of snow and ice parameters and their dynamics using multimodal Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) observations
• The aim is to explore two scientific topics within the cryosphere domain
• The first topic involves analyzing SAR interferometry to generate time series of digital elevation models, which will facilitate the quantification of changes in glaciers and ice sheets on a large scale for assessing and estimating mass balance
• The second topic centres on the characterization and identification of glacier crevasses and their dynamics over time through high‑resolution SAR data
• For the first topic, the m...