05 · Join us · Applications open year-round
Curious people,  every career stage.
Why here Postdoc, PhD, masters or technical — if you are drawn to mucosal immunology, microbial ecology, vaccine engineering or quantitative biology, we would like to hear from you. The lab runs across two homes, the University of Oxford and the Botnar Institute for Immune Engineering in Basel, and hosts visiting students from both.

Where we are hiring

Applications open year-round
Postdoctoral Zürich · Oxford

Postdoctoral researchers

For scientists in mucosal immunology and vaccine engineering ready to lead an independent line of work — from oral vaccine design to antibody–glycan interactions and bacterial strain replacement in the gut.

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Doctoral Zürich · Oxford

PhD students

Doctoral projects across microbial ecology, quantitative live-imaging of the gut, mass-spectrometry-driven metabolomics and the immunology of secretory IgA. Often co-supervised across disciplines and institutes.

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Masters / Rotation Zürich · Oxford

Masters & rotation students

Semester and thesis projects for Oxford and Basel students. A chance to join an ongoing programme — from glycoconjugate vaccines to microbiota engineering — with close day-to-day supervision.

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Technical Zürich

Technical & lab roles

Lab manager and technical specialist roles supporting oral vaccine production, gnotobiotic work and protein/polysaccharide biochemistry — the backbone that keeps the science running.

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How we work

Difficult problems need a  creative team.

Collaborative by default

Understanding how the gut immune system shapes the microbiome takes people working closely across immunology, microbial ecology, chemistry and engineering. We hire for curiosity and for the willingness to learn from one another.

A safe place to push boundaries

We want a group where brilliant scientists feel supported enough to take real risks at the edge of what is known — and where everyone is there to back each other up.

From bench to barn to clinic

Our work runs from molecular mechanism to interventions that have to hold up in the field, the clinic and the barn. We value people who care about the translational endpoint as much as the experiment.