Student Projects
Please find below Master and PhD projects available.
Still looking for a Master Thesis or a Semester Project for the upcoming semester?
We offer a range of bachelor, master and semester projects for both engineers and biologists. Our group is working on a multitude of different projects which often offer great opportunities for Student Projects.
If you cannot find a project suiting your interest in our group's work in the list below, you are welcome to directly contact the responsible lab member for more information and the possibility of doing a project with him/her.
EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) PhD Position: Bioprinting next generation functional tissues
https://jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_ethz_hi1r8MRtERT8xoUFcS
Project background
This project is part of the EU-funded Print4Life, a Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) doctoral network led by Prof. Cecilia Persson, Uppsala University. This network has 8 doctoral candidate host institutions: Uppsala University, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Dublin City University, Universidade do Minho, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon Gmbh, Hydrumedical SA, Brinter AM Technologues oy, ETH Zürich; and 6 additional partners: FHNW, PBC Ltd, XapHe, Quintus Technologies AB, CAU ZU Kiel and Region Uppsala (Uppsala University Hospital). The network aims to provide Advanced Research Training for Additive Manufacturing of the Biomaterials and Tissues of the Future. You will be one of 17 doctoral students across the entire network.
Part of the research will be conducted in collaboration with other doctoral students, other academic institutions, and industry. The study period is planned to include short research stays at the Finnish company Brinter and Uppsala University. The main supervisor will be Prof. Marcy Zenobi-Wong (ETH Zürich), and co-supervisors Dr. Marcin Kotlarz (ETH Zürich), Prof. Paul Callaghan (Uppsala University), Dr. Maurizio Gullo (University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland) and Dhayakumar Rajan Prakash (Brinter).
Job description
In this project, the focus will be on development of functional tissues and tissue models by merging high-resolution 3D bioprinting with in situ perfusion systems, enabling direct graft maturation in the printing environment. Your work will bridge biopolymer innovation and microfluidics to overcome perfusion limitations in thick tissues.
Project Goal 1: Define and produce a printable hydrogel system to produce high resolution scaffolds with cell guidance properties;
Goal 2: Design a microfluidic system and monitoring system of the tissues viability; and
Goal 3: Test the tissue functionality in response to inflammatory stimulus and/or therapeutic drugs.