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PhD Candidate Predicting Adherence to Digital Health-Promoting Interventions

September 11, 2025

**Job Description**
The PhD candidate will join an interdisciplinary team to understand and predict how people engage with digital health interventions using AI and machine learning. The primary goal is to make digital health interventions more effective by predicting and improving adherence. This involves developing AI-based predictive models to anticipate user engagement and behavior, primarily utilizing real-world sensor and app data from unobtrusive measurements. The research will construct an AI-driven framework that predicts intervention use and behavior, applying it to various health-promoting use cases, including data from lifestyle interventions to reduce dementia risk and web-based interventions for STD prevention.

**Skills & Abilities**
• Strong interest in digital interventions, health promotion and behavior.
• Affinity with data science (e.g., complex statistics, machine learning or computational modelling) or willingness to develop relevant skills.
• Affinity with health promotion or willingness to develop in that field.
• Knowledge in programming (e.g. Python, R, SQL) and data science frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn) is a plus.
• Excellent English language skills.

**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• University Master’s degree in a relevant field concerning health (e.g., health science, health psychology)
• University Master’s degree in a relevant field concerning data analysis (e.g., data science, statistics)

**Experience**
Other:
• An (almost) completed University Master’s degree.

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Experience
Other: • An (almost) completed University Master's degree.
Work Level
Ph.D
Employment Type
Scholarship
Salary
Annual Salary: €36,708 - €46,572 gross (based on a full-time employment of 38 hours per week) Position Classification: Graded in scale P according to UFO profile PhD Candidate Benefits: 8.0% holiday allowance, 8.3% year-end bonus, flexible working hours, possibility to work partly from home, monthly commuting and internet allowance, 29 vacation days and 4 additional public holidays per year, opportunity to accumulate 12 additional compensation days, collective labor agreement (CAO) choice model, good pension scheme (ABP), company fitness, extensive sports facilities, space for personal and professional development, wide range of training programs, support for 'acknowledge and appreciate' initiatives.
Valid Until
October 20, 2025
Details
Full-time / Temporary Duration: 12 months, extendable to 4 years upon positive evaluation Remote Work: Hybrid Location Requirement: Primarily based in Maastricht, Netherlands Brief location description: Opportunities for short research visits to FH Joanneum - University of Applied Sciences (FHJ), Graz, Austria
School / Department / Center / Lab
• Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences
Supervisor(s)
dr. Jeroen Bruinsma (Maastricht University) dr. Markus Bödenler (FH Joanneum - University of Applied Sciences) dr. Rik Crutzen (Maastricht University)
Supervisor Email
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FH Joanneum – University of Applied Sciences (FHJ)
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