PhD student in translational data science in the field of digital medicine

The University of Luxembourg is an international research university with a distinctly multilingual and interdisciplinary character. The University was founded in 2003 and counts more than 6,700 students and more than 2,000 employees from around the world. The University’s faculties and interdisciplinary centres ;focus on research in the areas of Computer Science and ICT Security, Materials Science, European and International Law, Finance and Financial Innovation, Education, Contemporary and Digital History. In addition, the University focuses on cross-disciplinary research in the areas of Data Modelling and Simulation as well as Health and System Biomedicine. Times Higher Education ranks the University of Luxembourg #3 worldwide for its “international outlook,” #20 in the Young University Ranking 2021 and among the top 250 universities worldwide.

Within the University, the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) is a highly interdisciplinary research centre (IC), integrating experimental biology and computational biology approaches to develop the foundation of a future digital medicine.

Within the LCSB, the Digital Medicine group headed by the FNR-PEARL Chair Prof. Dr. med. Jochen Klucken focusses on:

• Shaping the digital transformation of medicine and innovating personalized digital medical devices and related digital supported healthcare solutions, and
• Understanding and evaluating the new benchmarks of a new ecosystem for digital medicine.

Patient-centered digital healthcare services and smart medical devices complement the existing healthcare service ecosystem and aim to address the patient's needs, continuously monitor and accompany the individual patient journey, and provide clinical decision support for healthcare provider.  Digital therapeutics are at the verge of being reimbursed and integrated into healthcare procedures. The goal of the Digital Medicine group is to develop, understand and to evaluate this new type of healthcare application in medicine in order to reduce disease burden, improve healthcare and generate innovative solutions and services. To reach this goal, we focus on the patient and healthcare provider view and interaction with digital medical devices, and thus, develop and test user-interfaces jointly with patients and healthcare providers. Here, we closely interact with members of the Luxembourg ParkinsonNet and the Parkinson Research Clinic headed by Prof. Rejko Krüger. Our team consists of clinicians and study nurses, data scientists, social and health economic scientists, as well as medical process experts and health technology assessment (HTA) experts.