Postdoctoral Fellowship

Project Background 

You are a great fit if you’re excited to:

(a) frame a clear AEC challenge, (b) pick the right tools (not all of them), and (c) show how your work creates impact to improve resource efficiency, reduce carbon emissions, or increase productivity. Some example research areas include, but are not limited to:

• AI-Enhanced Design & Planning: Data-driven methods for urban development, architectural and structural design, or building systems simulation.
  
• XR-Augmented Workflows to create, build or inspect: Using Augmented, Virtual, or Mixed Reality to support spatial understanding, coordination, and decision-making in a given phase or AEC discipline.
  
• Seamless Digital Processes: Integrated information management from office to site, incl. visual analytics and LLM-enabled processes.
  
• Intelligent, Collaborative Project Delivery: Greater data transparency and multi-stakeholder collaboration across phases to improve decisions.

Methods may include AI/ML (incl. LLMs), XR, robotics, simulation, optimization, or others that fit your research question. We welcome foundational AI and XR proposals (e.g., representations, verification, interpretability for AEC) and applied AEC projects. If unsure, apply, and refine  the scope with your co-hosts.

We offer

• Opportunity for groundbreaking interdisciplinary research: apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Extended Reality (XR) on a challenge of the built environment framed by you and co-mentored by two ETH Professors from two different departments.

• Employment & salary: Two-year ETH postdoc contract under ETH regulations; salary follows the ETH postdoc standard. (ETH Zürich)

• Community & development: You’ll join the Design++ network, with access to the Immersive Design Lab (IDL) and Large-scale Virtualization & Modeling Lab (LVML), and take part in ETH-wide seminars, schools, and workshops. 

• Collaboration with Halter AG: This fellowship is made possible through Design++’s Strategic Partnership with Halter Group AG. You will therefore have the opportunity to collaborate with Halter AG and its sister companies and deepen your proposed work by testing it in real-world environments.

• Family & wellbeing: Childcare support via the kihz foundation and ETH subsidies; paid maternity/paternity leave per ETH policy; 5 weeks’ vacation per year. (ETH Zürich)