Research jobs in Lausanne

What you would do

• Isolate, select, and produce therapeutic bacteriophages according to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) standards for human use.
• Participate in laboratory experiments including sample preparation and post-treatment follow-up tests to characterize phage pharmacokinetics and inhibition of activity in patient fluids (blood, sputum).
• Maintain and care for laboratory equipment and materials.
• Write, analyze, and archive experimental results in laboratory notebooks, files, and databases.
• Exchange scientific and technical information within the team and contribute to continuous improvement of methods and protocols.

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What you would do

• Conducting vulnerability research on Apple software, firmware, and hardware components.
• Analyzing and exploiting vulnerabilities in iOS and macOS (kernel and user-land), boot ROMs, firmware, and hardware.
• Collaborating with internal teams and vendors to improve product security.

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What you would do

• Troubleshoot production failures across the full experimental pipeline (failed expression, anomalous binding data, instrument artifacts).
• Develop and document SOPs for new assays as the portfolio expands.
• Translate R&D methods into production-ready, reproducible protocols executable by junior technicians.
• Mentor a growing production team, set quality standards, review data, and train new hires.
• Collaborate with researchers, technicians, and automation engineers on protocol optimization for work cells and LabOS protocol integration.
• Own the relationship between assay science and throughput, balancing scalability with quality.

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What you would do

• Lead the Research and Development division strategically and academically, with responsibility for operations, staff and finances.
• Shape development in line with SFUVET's strategic priorities and advance forward-looking research areas.
• Safeguard academic quality, promote high-quality publishing, interdisciplinary approaches and methodological diversity.
• Secure and deliver competitive and externally funded research projects.
• Support early-career researchers and foster professional and academic development.
• Strengthen knowledge and innovation transfer between research, VET practice and education policy.

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What you would do

• Conduct original doctoral research on forest responses to atmospheric and soil drought combining ecophysiological and remote-sensing approaches.
• Conduct and analyze measurements including sap flow, dendrometer data, leaf water potential, gas exchange, chlorophyll fluorescence, and thermal responses.
• Analyze thermal, RGB and potentially multispectral or hyperspectral imagery from fixed cameras and UAVs.
• Use satellite and environmental datasets to identify regions where forests are particularly sensitive or vulnerable to atmospheric drought.
• Disseminate findings through peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations.
• Participate in laboratory activities and, when appropriate, supervise student projects.

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What you would do

• Lead the scientific management and monitoring of the TANDEM project with the two main co-investigators.
• Develop and validate standardized operating procedures (SOPs) for multiplex imaging and spatial profiling.
• Coordinate production of high-quality data.
• Perform image processing and quantitative analysis of spatial proteomics data.
• Contribute to a computational pathology pipeline combining H&E imaging, spatial proteomics, and machine learning.
• Train and evaluate generative AI models to predict multiplex markers from H&E images.

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What you would do

• Develop an independent and internationally competitive research program in energy systems.
• Conduct research in energy generation/conversion, storage, integration and distribution, energy for extreme environments, and optimal operations of energy systems.
• Supervise PhD students.
• Contribute to undergraduate and graduate teaching and Mechanical Engineering education programs.
• Collaborate with researchers across EPFL campuses.

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What you would do

• Patient care in medical practices.
• Performing laboratory and radiographic examinations.
• Carrying out medical-technical procedures.
• Administrative tasks.

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What you would do

• Conduct a thesis project on the effects of vegetation cover and built-up areas on human exposure to solar UV radiation and heat stress.
• Monitor scientific literature relevant to the project.
• Participate in internal and external project coordination meetings.
• Contribute, in collaboration with Meteosuisse, to updating UV climatology, developing a heat stress climatology, and mapping vegetation cover and built-up areas.
• Conduct a field measurement campaign in urban and suburban environments.
• Develop and validate a model describing the effect of built-up areas and vegetation on human exposure.

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What you would do

• Developing and applying sample preparation methods for allergens, microparticles, micronutrients and phytochemicals analysis.
• Operating and maintaining advanced analytical equipment.
• Performing spectroscopic measurements.
• Evaluating analytical outcomes and turning results into clear insights for project teams and stakeholders.
• Contributing to method development and providing technical assistance to markets, including analytical support for allergen-related topics.
• Supporting project teams with technical assistance, sample preparation for trace analysis and analytical interpretation.

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What you would do

• Run daily and weekly calibration of Hamilton liquid handling systems.
• Calibrate and maintain instruments including Echo and pH meters.
• Maintain the SPR system (buffer bottle changes, rinsing, routine upkeep).
• Own automated workcells, keeping them clean, organized, and calibrated.
• Prepare buffers, reagents, and reaction mixes per SOPs.
• Run weekly buffer production and handle ad-hoc requests.

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What you would do

• Assume full responsibility for the PhD dissertation.
• Perform research in close collaboration with lab members and international collaborators.
• Design and execute experiments.
• Analyze and interpret experimental results.
• Write scientific articles for peer-reviewed journals.
• Present at international conferences.

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What you would do

• Develop and manage analytical methods supporting food compliance, chemical contaminant risk assessment, and risk mitigation.
• Manage advanced laboratory equipment to deliver reliable data and high-quality analytical results.
• Drive method validation, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement in line with quality standards.
• Provide technical assistance to markets and partners with practical recommendations and troubleshooting.
• Contribute to scientific reports, laboratory procedures, publications, and communication of analytical outcomes.
• Coach apprentices and students and share technical knowledge across teams.

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What you would do

• Manage day-to-day operation and continuous development of the Salesforce CRM system.
• Analyze business requirements with stakeholders and translate them into technical solutions.
• Configure and enhance Salesforce objects, fields, page layouts, and validation rules.
• Identify opportunities to improve CRM-related processes.
• Design and implement Salesforce Flows to automate business processes.
• Create reports, dashboards, and analyses for internal stakeholders.

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What you would do

• Study the consequences of feeding on heat-treated lipids for cognitive performance in Drosophila, including aversive olfactory learning, mate choice, and oviposition site selection.
• Conduct experimental evolution to study adaptation to heat-treated dietary lipids and associated changes in the brain metabolome.
• Perform laboratory research on insect behavior and cognitive tasks.
• Participate in the international heat-treated lipids research program and its meetings.
• Act as teaching assistant for courses corresponding to expertise and interest.

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What you would do

• Social insurance administration (APG, AVS, AF), contracts and personnel file management.
• Private insurance management including sickness/accident declarations and benefit follow-up.
• Time management and absence processing.
• Drafting and publishing job advertisements, pre-screening applications, and candidate correspondence.
• Managing spontaneous applications and employee entries and departures.

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What you would do

• Perform clinical chemistry, hematology, and immunohematology analyses according to current procedures.
• Use and monitor laboratory automation systems, perform maintenance, calibrations, and quality controls.
• Receive and record samples in the laboratory information system (LIS).
• Check compliance of requests and samples and handle non-conformities.
• Perform centrifugation, aliquoting, and sample preparation for analysis.
• Organize shipments to other sites or specialized laboratories.

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What you would do

• Read and discuss recent AI research and translate promising ideas into experiments.
• Train, fine-tune and evaluate Transformer-based models.
• Contribute to experiments involving reasoning, synthetic data, model adaptation and evaluation.
• Build benchmarks and analyse model performance and failure cases.
• Explore improvements to training data, objectives, prompts and inference strategies.
• Write clean and reproducible research code.

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What you would do

• Perform physicochemical analyses on raw materials and finished products (identification, dosage, purity control).
• Learn and master advanced analytical separation techniques such as UHPLC-DAD.
• Participate in the development and validation of new analytical methods.
• Maintain and ensure proper functioning of the laboratory and its equipment.
• Write, verify, and archive results in compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).
• Participate in microbiological analyses (plate reading, microbiological control of pharmaceutical waters and non-sterile products).

Skills

What you would do

• Assume full responsibility for the PhD dissertation.
• Perform research in close collaboration with lab members and international collaborators.
• Design and execute experiments.
• Analyze and interpret experimental results.
• Write scientific articles for peer-reviewed journals.
• Present at international conferences.

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