PhD Opportunities in Digital Health in Austria

This funded PhD project at Ulster University’s School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences will investigate how digitally enabled, patient-centred approaches can support safer deprescribing for older adults living with frailty in Northern Ireland. The research will examine the intersections between health literacy, frailty and medication use. The doctoral researcher will co-design and pilot a digitally enabled intervention intended to support safer prescribing and deprescribing, with direct ali...

The project is a doctoral research position at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Solvay Business School within the Department of Communication Sciences and the Research Group Studies in Media, Innovation and Technology (imec-SMIT). The PhD research is embedded in the Horizon Europe project EU ADAPTEM , which develops new digital tools to improve health and well-being for children and adults with severe intellectual disabilities and their caregivers. The ...

This PhD scholarship offers the chance to work on quantum-enhanced machine learning for digital health and medical diagnostics through a collaboration between Monash University and Quantum Motion . The project sits at the intersection of quantum computing and machine learning , with a focus on developing novel models for medical imaging. The research aims to improve diagnostic performance in areas such as nuclear medicine and magnetic imaging by advancing image resolution, reducing noise, or ena...

Trinity College Dublin’s School of Nursing and Midwifery, in partnership with St James Hospital, is offering one part-time funded scholarship for entry to a six-year Structured PhD programme in March or September 2027. The Joint PhD Scholarship is designed for nurses and midwives who want to generate evidence-based knowledge and develop innovative practices that improve care and health outcomes. Research will be conducted within St James Hospital and associated partners, with access to expertise...

The Research School “Digital Health” at the Hasso Plattner Institute and the University of Potsdam offers a doctoral environment focused on digital technologies for health and healthcare. The programme sits within the Faculty of Digital Engineering and is designed for PhD researchers working at the intersection of computer science, data analytics, and health-related applications. Students in this research school explore how health data can be analysed and translated into action to improve care a...

The PhD programme in Medical Research: Epidemiology and Public Health at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München is an international and interdisciplinary doctoral programme embedded in the Pettenkofer School of Public Health and the Munich Medical Research School . Doctoral candidates can develop their research within a broad range of topics spanning clinical, molecular and genetic epidemiology , clinical trials and translational medicine , genomic and molecular medicine , digital health , clini...

The Human-Centred Computing (HCC) section in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen is offering a PhD fellowship in Human-Computer Interaction . The project examines how digital technologies mediate people’s experiences of their bodies, with a specific focus on self-tracking technologies and chronic illness . The successful PhD researcher will investigate how people with chronic conditions use self-tracking tools, how these technologies shape interactions with informa...

DTU Health Tech at the Technical University of Denmark is advertising research opportunities connected with human health and society. The PhD project focuses on 3D cochlear histopathology in ageing and systemic disease , addressing structural and disease-related changes in the cochlea through three-dimensional histopathological research. This opportunity is associated with the department’s hearing-systems research environment. A separate postdoctoral opening concerns technology-supported home-ba...

This fully funded PhD project will investigate innovative approaches to improve the detection of cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy in people with diabetes . The research will focus on advanced analysis of wearable photoplethysmography (PPG) data, combining digital health, wearable technologies, biomedical signal processing and clinically relevant cardiovascular research. The student will work at the intersection of academia, industry and the NHS on a translational project with potential to imp...