Student Research Projects

Masters and Bachelors Projects, Student projects, Research projects

Thanks for your interest in Toxicology research. The overarching theme of our work is to derive an understanding of toxicity on the basis of chemical structure and reactivity. We focus largely on chemicals relevant to the human diet, and biochemical processes involving nucleic acids.

For representative research areas look at our research site.

Research techniques: research may be addressed by different combinations of the following experimental techniques

• synthetic organic chemistry
• enzymological biochemistry (kinetics and dynamics of how small molecules influence isolated enzymes)
• chemical bioanalysis of chemical transformations and biomolecular changes in cells
  

Envisioning your project:

In practice, MS/BS students usually focus on one technique area. However, this is done as part of a broader project that their PhD or Postdoc mentor works on, so you learn about other aspects and may integrate to some extent a second technique. At the PhD and postdoc level, researchers work with multiple techniques. We also have many collaborators that bring further dimension to the work, and sometimes masters students work on collaborations, either in our laboratories in Zurich or visiting collaborators' labs.

Projects are at the interface of chemistry and biology. We address chemical aspects of biological interactions and rely on chemistry-based approaches, and interested students should find motivation in the chemistry-oriented basis of the research. A good way to get a practical perspective on this is to look at our actual publication list.

Interested?

Send an email to Ms Jasmina Büchel ( and add cc: ) including:

• Your major, degree track, record of courses completed and grades (Leistungsüberblick), a proposed time period (approximate dates) for the project, and the format of the project (i.e. Bachelorarbeit, Projektarbeit, Masterarbeit, etc.).
• Research themes of interest
• Feedback regarding what motivates you in terms of research areas and/or technique interests (if you know)
• Join one of our group research meetings