Job Openings

We currently have the following vacancies:

Postdoc in Meta-Research (80-100%)

07.07.2025 – A fully funded postdoctoral position (2 years) is open for an enthusiastic early career researcher to work in the Research-on-research group at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) of the University of Bern in Bern, Switzerland.

PhD Student in Childhood Cancer Epidemiology (Linear Growth and BMI)

04.07.2025 – In this PhD project you will set up a retrospective cohort to investigate linear growth and body mass index (BMI). You will maximize the potential of routine health data from hospitals, the national Childhood Cancer Registry, birth statistics, and the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Stud to model linear growth and BMI trajectories in childhood cancer patients and survivors with repeated measurements from birth through adulthood.

PhD Student in Childhood Cancer Epidemiology (Health Behaviors)

01.07.2025 – In this PhD project you will investigate health behaviors, such as physical activity, nutrition, smoking and alcohol use, and explore their determinants and trends over time. You will be able to analyze existing data from over 4000 cancer survivors from the nation-wide Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (SCCSS) and to design short additional online questionnaires.