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Under the umbrella of the Health Technology Research and Innovation Cluster (HTRIC), the Hanze University of Applied Sciences is looking for a PhD Student Monitoring and Targeted Treatment in the Diabetes Continuum.
The Health Technology Research and Innovation Cluster (HTRIC) is rethinking the future of healthcare. We bring academic research, health technology, and clinical practice together to tackle the challenges faced by today’s healthcare system. Our aspiration? More healthy years of life for the people around us! Through our research, we will foster new developments that support healthy aging and longevity while improving people’s quality of life and making healthcare more efficient. We focus on the entire innovation chain, from societal and clinical demands to groundbreaking innovations and first-in-human applications. We aim to speed up innovation through the interplay of knowledge development, health technology development, and business development. By linking researchers, businesses, and external professionals, we want to develop technologies that will continue to improve and transform our healthcare system. This is what HTRIC stands for.
The research topic
6.5% of the Dutch population has diabetes type 2. In the near future, this prevalence and the associated burden to the Dutch healthcare system will likely increase due to demographic changes and modern lifestyle. Leveraging technology-driven lifestyle interventions that harness wearables and data science methods holds huge promises in order to prevent and treat type 2 diabetes. These interventions empower self-management through feedback, thereby enhancing the impact of lifestyle intervention programs.
Within this project, we are looking for a PhD candidate who contributes to the development of an integrative technology based lifestyle intervention for the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes. The goal is to use wearables to monitor behaviors such as food intake, stress, sleep, and physical activity and use this information to give personalized motivational feedback. In an iterative user-centered design process, an e-health application to support lifestyle interventions for diabetes self-management and prevention should be developed and validated. To achieve good adherence to the intervention, the application should be co-designed with clinicians, patients, and users that are overweight. During the PhD project the following research questions need to be addressed:
What will be your tasks?
Where you will work
The position is housed within the Hanze University of Applied Sciences. The position is created on the basis of existing cooperation between the professorship Digital Transformation (dr. Hilbrand Oldenhuis) and the professorship Data Science for Life Sciences (dr. Wynand Alkema) of the Hanze University of Applied Sciences, the Faculty of Science and Engineering of the University of Groningen (dr. Elisabeth Wilhelm) and the department of Human Movement Sciences of the University Medical Center Groningen (Prof. dr. Claudine Lamoth).
What we ask of you
The ideal candidate:
Fixed-term contract: 4 years.
This is what you get in return
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