PhD Position in Medical Data Science, NLP, and Animal-to-Human Translation at University of Bern University of Bern in Switzerland

PhD opening at the University of Bern in the Machine Learning in Medicine Lab for research on modelling disease progression from multimodal health data . The project sits at the intersection of computer science , medical science , statistics , and public health , with data sources including imaging , wearables , and clinical records . Research directions mentioned include multimodal representation learning , causal machine learning , learning with missing data , fairness , and uncertainty quanti...

University of Bern / University Hospital for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Directorate of Teaching and Research (Bern, Switzerland) is recruiting a PhD student for the PROTECT-SH project. The doctoral project is titled Self-Harm and New Media and is embedded in PROTECT-SH , a Horizon Europe -funded international consortium with partners in seven countries. The research focuses on how social media use may promote or protect against self-harming and suicidal behavior in adolescents and young ad...

PhD Position in Epidemiology/Digital Health: Digital Follow-up of post-Sepsis (UMZH Learn4Sepsis) at the University of Zurich , Switzerland. This PhD project is embedded in Work Package 5 of the UMZH Learn4Sepsis program and focuses on designing and initiating a digital follow-up cohort for people after sepsis. The work combines epidemiology , digital health , biostatistics , machine learning , natural language processing , and data-driven patient-reported outcome research. The candidate will he...

Postdoctoral Researcher opportunity in Conversational AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland . The role focuses on research in conversational AI, grounded and adaptive dialogue systems, LLM post-training, reinforcement learning, simulations, and user studies. The successful candidate will coordinate selected research activities within CREST-AI together with Prof. Christina Niklaus , contribute original research ideas, publish at leading NLP and AI venu...

PhD Student in Translational Cancer Research (SNSF project) at the University of Bern, Switzerland. This PhD opening is hosted by the Department for BioMedical Research (DBMR) in Bern and is embedded in an interdisciplinary, multicentric team of medical oncologists, pathologists, and translational researchers. The project focuses on translational cancer research , precision oncology , DNA repair , synthetic lethality , and immunotherapy target discovery in solid tumours . The lab’s recent work i...