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 e.g. topographic heights, displacements, quantitative bio-physical parameters and has found applications in several domains of the artic region, as e.g. the monitoring of infrastructure and permafrost-related subsidence’s
• Among the most rapid and dramatic changes in the artic regions are retrogressive thaw slumps (RTS)
• Thes...