PhD student (f/d/m) at the “Human-centered AI” Junior Research Group

The Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics (PLRI) at the Hannover Medical School (MHH) invites applications for a PhD position in "Human-Centered AI" as a part of the newly established Lower Saxony Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Causal Methods in Medicine – CAIMed.

The Junior research group "Human-centered AI" will research approaches that combine AI methods, data visualization, and human-machine interaction to support the development of data-driven clinical decision models. The group will investigate visual analytics techniques to iteratively and interactively explore complex data, identify relations and patterns as well as artifacts in the data, verify existing data, and generate new hypotheses about a clinical situation. The application focus of the group’s work will be on issues in oncology, especially in the use case of AI-based image analysis for individual therapy decisions, as well as ICU infectious diseases.

• Combine AI, data visualization and human-machine interaction to identify data relationships and patterns for clinical decision models
• Propose new AI designs and provide key insights into data processing and modeling decisions
• Manage the end-to-end process of data preparation, exploration, model generation and training, as well as model application
• Design visual analytics methods for iterative and interactive analysis of complex data and evaluation of AI models
• Analyze complex data from various experiments and design changes
• Develop methods that make AI-based predictions understandable for developers, clinicians and patients
• Collaborate with other CAIMed research groups on applications such as oncology and infectious diseases

• Obtained a Master’s degree in the area of computer sciences, data science, information systems, medical informatics, bioinformatics, business informatics, mathematics or a comparable course of study
• Strong research experience in (at least) one of the following fields: 
• Visual analytics of medical data
• AI-based medical image analysis
• Clinical decision support systems
• Medical data science and/or knowledge engineering
• Very good oral and writing skills in English; German language skills are advantageous
• Willingness to work closely with an interdisciplinary project team
• Initiative and a results-orientated working style
• Publication experience is a bonus

• A full-time position with 38.5 hours per week, initially limited until 31 October 2028, with one of the largest employers in the state of Lower Saxony
• Remuneration in accordance with TV-L with the benefits of the public sector (e.g. company pension scheme and additional insurance through VBL)
• An exciting job at the interface of research, care and science management in a growing institute
• Increased flexibility through partially mobile work or teleworking
• Work in a motivated, team-orientated and international research institute
• Personal and professional development opportunities - supported by our diverse internal and external training and further education programmes
• A job ticket for local public transport and other diverse offers
• An excellent range of sports, counselling and prevention programmes - because your health is important to us

Have we piqued your interest? If so, we look forward to receiving your application!

Please send your application by 21.07.2024 via the application portal of the Hannover Medical School. 

For technical information, please contact Dr. rer. nat. Zahra Ahmadi by telephone at +49 (0) 511 532 81670 .