Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Biomarkers for Healthy Longevity (m/f/d)

Your tasks

• You will lead the CSS Health Lab as Scientific Director and co-supervise five PhD students in close collaboration with Professors Tobias Kowatsch (UZH, HSG & ETH; Digital Health Interventions), Elgar Fleisch (ETH Zurich and HSG, Information Management), and Florian von Wangenheim (ETH; Technology Marketing).
• CSS is one of the largest Swiss health insurance companies, and the CSS Health Lab forms an integral part of the CDHI. Given the increasing health and economic burden of NCDs, you will work on the question of how to make preventive care models a success (e.g., in healthy, at-risk, or patient populations).
• You will make prevention measurable, actionable, and accountable by co-supervising a technical team of PhD students' team that develops digital biomarkers for healthy longevity.
• To this end, you will lead a series of digital biomarker studies by collecting and leveraging intensive longitudinal behavioural and physiological data (e.g. via wearables and voice interactions) and by using repeated measures of blood biomarkers, microbiome, and/or epigenetic data sets.
• With this data, you will develop proximal and distal digital biomarkers for biological age (e.g. a digital biomarker for metabolic health). The resulting digital biomarkers will be used to trigger behavioural precision interventions that slow down biological ageing processes. MobileCoach, among other technologies, will be used to conduct your digital biomarker research.

Please apply by 16. December 2022

Your profile

• A PhD in computer science, machine learning, computational biology, statistics or related fields
• Expertise in digital biomarker research
• Experience with lab experiments, clinical trials, good clinical practice
• Strong interest in applied science
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
• Familiarity with ethical, legal, and health-political challenges of medical research
• Positive experiences with interdisciplinary collaborations
• Experience with control systems theory and just-in-time adaptive interventions
• Understanding of the digital health start-up space and MedTech company

The ongoing digitisation of our everyday life offers unique opportunities for innovation in healthcare. The Chair of Digital Health Interventions is an integral part of the Centre for Digital Health Interventions, a joint initiative of the Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care at the University of Zurich (UZH), both the School of Medicine and the Institute of Technology Management at the University of St.Gallen (HSG), and the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zurich (ETH). CDHI strives to design, implement, and evaluate consumer- and healthcare provider-centric applications for the prevention and management of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) using ubiquitous computing technology. To strengthen the research activities of the Chair for Digital Health Interventions at the HSG School of Medicine, St.Gallen, we offer the position of a Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Biomarkers for Healthy Longevity (100%).

We are looking forward to your online-application. apply here

Inspirational Work Environment

Executive Education

Family & Career

Equal Opportunities

Fit and Healthy

Inspirational Work Environment

At the HSG, as Europe's leading business university, we operate in an entrepreneurial environment where you will meet highly qualified, ambitious experts - both regionally and internationally. For example, you benefit from a modern IT infrastructure and, in our library via HSGswisscovery, from nationwide access to the wealth of scientific information available.

Executive Education

We support internal and external executive education opportunities. Our internal executive education programme offers you a practical, dedicated and didactically mature transfer of knowledge in the form of seminars, e-learning, coaching and collegial advice. We support task-specific external training and executive education financially as well as with regard to the time required.

Network

We promote our culture of cross-functional collaboration and create space for forging valuable relationships - also with external partners. Regular exchanges and internal events help to strengthen these relationships and make them long-lasting.

Family & Career

We provide our employees with flexible work time models with a variable number of hours per week. As a family-friendly employer, we offer part-time positions, 16 weeks of maternity leave and a subsidised crèche, as well as support with childcare during the vacations.

Equal Opportunities

The University enables equal opportunities for all employees and students. This applies to degree courses and work, as well as academic careers, university management positions and the reconciliation of studies, work and private commitments. We are committed to this with various measures in the areas of teaching, research, administration and the Presidency.

Fit and Healthy

We help you stay fit and healthy. In addition to our diverse range of sports activities at the university, most of which are free of charge, and campaign weeks for corporate health management, we also offer you fruit in the workplace. In our canteen you will find a wide selection of freshly prepared meals - from vegetarian to fish dishes - at discounted prices.

Further information on working at the HSG can be found here.

For job-related questions

Prof. Dr. Tobias Kowatsch
Chair of Digital Health Interventions
Tel.: +41 71 224 72 44
tobias.kowatsch@unisg.ch

«If you are fascinated by the described task and would like to be part of a highly motivated team, we would be pleased to receive your electronic application.»

Doris Brand
Head of Services & Marketing
Tel.: +41 71 224 32 07
doris.brand@unisg.ch

«We are looking forward to meeting you.»

Your place of work

University of St.Gallen

«A place where knowledge is created» - As one of Europe's leading universities of economics and business administration, the University of St.Gallen (HSG), Switzerland, is committed to the education of over 8800 students. The HSG is one of the largest employers in the region and provides an attractive and innovative environment for more than 3300 researchers, educators and professional staff.