PhD position in Digital Health - Zurich, Schweiz - University of Zurich

Beschreibung

Your responsibilities

will span from conceptualization, development, and evaluation to implementation into routine patient care.
To start, you will work in close collaboration with our team members and our project partners, including the Neurozentrum Bellevue (Bellevue Medical Group) and Klinik Lengg, to support the data collection of our ongoing study in Multiple Sclerosis and long COVID patients. You will analyze fitness tracker and patient-reported data to derive novel digital biomarkers for objective fatigue quantification and disease severity.
In the latter part of the Ph.D., you will participate in designing and conducting a new clinical study. Here, your focus will be on researching how to integrate new digital biomarkers into routine clinical care, creating a set of best practices that consider the needs of all stakeholders involved. Additionally, you will contribute to the user experience design of our smartphone application, ensuring a user-centered approach that considers both patients and healthcare professionals' requirements. This task will involve close collaboration with designers and developers. Furthermore, you will contribute to the maintenance and improvement of our data analysis pipeline, which is programmed in Python.

Your profile

For this project, we search for a highly motivated person with a Master's Degree (e.g., in Epidemiology, Statistics, Biology, Biomedicine, Medicine, Computer Science, or Psychology) with good knowledge of Python and at least basic knowledge of statistical programming and data wrangling in R, a good command of English and German, good communication skills, and the willingness to actively interact with our stakeholders, including healthcare providers, healthcare professionals, patients, and UX/UI experts.

What we offer

You will become part of an innovative study group at the intersection of Digital Health and Citizen Science. As a member of our highly interdisciplinary team, you will receive the opportunity to pursue your research independently but with the support of specialists in Data Science, Neurology, UX/UI, Biostatistics, Public Health, or Psychology.

Our offices are located near the UZH Main Campus / University Hospital.

A fully-funded 4-year research-focused position.

Pay rates for PhD candidates are based on the standards set by SNSF.