PhD Candidate- Empowering healthcare providers and patients through transparent AI based decision-making

About the DECIDE project

The DECIDE project is a large-scale, NWO-funded research initiative under the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA). It brings together 10 Dutch universities, over 50 academic researchers, and 30 societal partners in an ambitious inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration. Our shared mission is to develop strategies towards the design, and implement a new generation of transparent and trustworthy AI systems, with a focus on AI-supported decision-making to empower democratic participation of citizens.

The project addresses real-world challenges across domains such as healthcare, mobility, public governance, and healthy lifestyles. By co-developing strategies with societal stakeholders, DECIDE aims to create solutions that have tangible impact on society.

Your role as a PhD student
This PhD project focuses on how AI transparency and trustworthiness can be meaningfully implemented in real-world healthcare contexts, such as diagnostic decision support or patient outcome predictions. Your research will focus on how patients, healthcare providers and researchers can understand and trust AI generated outputs, diagnoses or predictions, and how this understanding can be supported through technical, medical, scientific, and communication strategies. The overarching aim is to contribute to the development of transparent, explainable and trustworthy AI models that improve decision-making in healthcare while respecting patient autonomy, safety, and privacy.

As a PhD candidate, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team of PhD students and become part of a vibrant inter- and transdisciplinary research community. You will:

• Collaborate across disciplines and with societal stakeholders to achieve real-world impact.
• Participate in joint training programs on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research methods, citizen engagement, and ethical AI.
• Contribute to cutting-edge research that bridges theory and practice.

Huisartsdocent Studentenonderwijs - Werkdag: donderdag

Als huisartsdocent speel je een belangrijke rol in de opleiding van toekomstige artsen. Je laat studenten kennismaken met de breedte, complexiteit en maatschappelijke waarde van de (huisarts)geneeskunde. Vanuit je eigen praktijkervaring help je hen klinisch redeneren, professioneel handelen en de patiënt in diens context beter begrijpen.

Je werkzaamheden bestaan uit een samengesteld takenpakket, afhankelijk van je ervaring, expertise en de behoefte binnen het onderwijs. Denk hierbij aan:

• verzorgen van colleges en werkgroepen over huisartsgeneeskundige onderwerpen in de bachelor- en masteropleiding Geneeskunde;
• ontwikkelen, actualiseren en verbeteren van onderwijsmodules voor studenten en huisartsen;
• deelnemen aan stafactiviteiten en volgen van didactische scholing.
• verzorgen van didactische scholing voor huisartsopleiders;
• onderhouden van contact met huisartsopleiders en bijdragen aan relatiebeheer;

Werkdag: donderdag.

Huisartsdocent Studentenonderwijs - Werkdag(en): te plannen in overleg

We zoeken voor ons team huisartsdocenten een docent met als hoofdtaak het werkgroeponderwijs Klinisch Denken binnen de SUMMA-opleiding (Selectieve Utrechtse Medische Master). Voor dit onderwijs, waarin het aanleren van klinisch redeneren centraal staat, neem je als huisarts vanuit je eigen praktijk (ín of rondom Utrecht) patiënten mee. Daarnaast ontwikkel je nieuw onderwijs en houdt je bestaand onderwijs up-to-date. Ook ben je betrokken bij stafactiviteiten en volg je didactische scholing.

Daarnaast zijn er een aantal andere kleinere taken, die we samenstellen afhankelijk van je ervaring, expertise en de behoefte binnen het onderwijs. Denk hierbij aan bv.:

• Colleges en werkgroepen betreffende huisartsgeneeskundige onderwerpen in zowel de bachelor als de master geneeskunde.
• Verzorging van didactische scholing voor huisartsopleiders
• Uitvoeren relatiebeheer en kwaliteitsbeleid huisartsopleiders

Werkdagde(e)l(en): te plannen in overleg

PhD Candidate- Empowering healthcare providers and patients through transparent AI based decision-making

About the DECIDE project

The DECIDE project is a large-scale, NWO-funded research initiative under the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA). It brings together 10 Dutch universities, over 50 academic researchers, and 30 societal partners in an ambitious inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration. Our shared mission is to develop strategies towards the design, and implement a new generation of transparent and trustworthy AI systems, with a focus on AI-supported decision-making to empower democratic participation of citizens.

The project addresses real-world challenges across domains such as healthcare, mobility, public governance, and healthy lifestyles. By co-developing strategies with societal stakeholders, DECIDE aims to create solutions that have tangible impact on society.

Your role as a PhD student
This PhD project focuses on how AI transparency and trustworthiness can be meaningfully implemented in real-world healthcare contexts, such as diagnostic decision support or patient outcome predictions. Your research will focus on how patients, healthcare providers and researchers can understand and trust AI generated outputs, diagnoses or predictions, and how this understanding can be supported through technical, medical, scientific, and communication strategies. The overarching aim is to contribute to the development of transparent, explainable and trustworthy AI models that improve decision-making in healthcare while respecting patient autonomy, safety, and privacy.

As a PhD candidate, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team of PhD students and become part of a vibrant inter- and transdisciplinary research community. You will:

• Collaborate across disciplines and with societal stakeholders to achieve real-world impact.
• Participate in joint training programs on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research methods, citizen engagement, and ethical AI.
• Contribute to cutting-edge research that bridges theory and practice.

Postdoc position in Organoid Biology and Advanced-Human Relevant Tissue Models

New developments in Organoid biology and Bioprinting are opening new avenues for the generation of advanced, human-relevant in vitro models to replace animal experimentation, and to improve drug development pipelines in pharmaceutical research. To fully unlock this potential, engineering 3D tissues requires control over a complex and tightly choreographed interplay between cellular communication, cellular self-organization programs and cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions.

The REVOLV project focuses on developing engineered, organoid-based miniaturized models of the vascularized human liver, using a new volumetric bioprinting technology to generate hundreds of samples in few minutes, in a manner compatible with high-throughput production and screening. These technologies are highly novel, one-of-a-kind, and the project is expected to result in several highly impactful publications and patents. You will collaborate with international partners, with opportunities for research exchanges. As a member of the Living Matter Engineering and Biofabrication team, based at the Department of Orthopaedics and at the Regenerative Medicine Center Utrecht, collaborations with a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, physicists, chemists, biologists, and engineers form an essential part of the job.

You will be co-supervising PhD students, and closely work with colleagues from Utrecht University. We offer an exciting opportunity to contribute to an ambitious and international research program within a highly motivated team and to conduct your work at a renowned research university. Teaching opportunities are available, if desired. You will receive training, personal supervision, and guidance for your research, career development and acquisition of personal funding, and which will provide an excellent basis to an independent academic career.