CYD Fellowships
The eleventh call for applications is now open with a rolling call for Master Thesis Fellowship applications and with a deadline of 26 February 2025 (17:00 CET) for Doctoral and Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship applications. In addition, a CYD Proof of Concept Fellowship program is also now available via an open rolling call.
@CYD Campus
A Talent Program for Cyber-Defence Research
Cyber-threats have been accelerating due to the exponential growth of network connectivity. These new capabilities provide myriad opportunities for security hackers to wreak significant damage for commercial, political, or other gains.
CYD Fellowships are designed to promote new solutions to major challenges in the fields of security and data science by bringing together basic and applied research in cyber-defence.
The CYD Fellowships is a talent program for cyber-defence research. It offers Master Thesis, Doctoral, and Distinguished Postdoctoral fellowships to candidates with an outstanding academic and, if applicable, professional track record. This program is highly competitive, and the primary evaluation criterion is excellence, as measured by academic records and professional accomplishments. Candidates applying for a CYD fellowship are expected to have excellent grade transcripts.
The Master Thesis fellowships are on a rolling-call basis so Master students may apply any time. There are two calls per year for Doctoral and Distinguished Postdoctoral fellowships. The 11th call opened on 4 December 2024 and applicants may apply until 26 February 2025 (17:00 CET). The next call (12th call) will open on 4 June 2025. Both new applications and resubmissions are encouraged.
CYD fellows are hosted by a higher education institution in Switzerland and conduct their research at the CYD Campus located on the premises of EPFL and ETHZ and in its office in Thun. The CYD Campus is a cyber-competence center acting as an anticipation platform for identifying and assessing technologies, commercial and social cyber trends, as well as the resulting usage scenarios.
Application deadline
A rolling call for Master Thesis Fellowship applications is open. Applications may be submitted throughout the year.
The 11th call is now open and applicants for the Doctoral and Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships may apply until 26 February 2025 (17:00 CET).
Application toolkit
Please, read carefully all documents available in the application toolkit to prepare your application.
The toolkit for Master Thesis Fellowship applications is available here.
The toolkit for Doctoral and Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship applications (9th call) is available here.
Submission platform
Access the application platform here.
