[Hiring] Postdoc Data Interaction for Remote Patient Monitoring Heart Failure Carepath @Eindhoven University of Technology

Role Description

Are you passionate about Design Research and the design of data-driven, hybrid care? Do you love working at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and complex multi-stakeholder ecosystems? Are you inspired by designing in the medical context and having a direct impact on quality of life for many patients? This Postdoc position will allow you to do all this in close cooperation with design researchers at Industrial Design TU/e, two leading regional hospitals (Máxima Medisch Centrum and Catharina Ziekenhuis Eindhoven), and MedTech partners such as LUSCII, BeterDichtbij, AIKON and Philips.

Healthcare is undergoing rapid transformation, driven by rising chronic disease, workforce shortages, and the urgent need for more efficient, patient-centred models of care. Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) has become a cornerstone of hybrid care, enabling follow-up outside the hospital while supporting quality, safety, and continuity of care. Heart failure – affecting around 240,000 people in the Netherlands – is one of the most common and fastest-growing chronic conditions to address. Yet large-scale, sustainable RPM remains limited, in large part because of the underlying health-IT infrastructure: centralised data integration approaches that copy, transform, and maintain data in multiple places, creating rigidity, high maintenance costs, limited scalability, and strong vendor dependencies.

This Postdoc position offers the resources and collaboration to:

• Design, document, and further develop methodological insights around data interaction for cross-institutional, hybrid care.
• Lead the design of a unified, cross-institutional heart failure care pathway.
• Develop a system-independent, care-process-driven data definition.
• Guide the implementation and evaluation of data interaction in daily clinical practice.
• Help shape the business and governance models that allow multiple MedTech vendors to connect to the data-interaction layer.
• Set up an effective design research agenda spanning clinical, technical, implementation, and business perspectives.

The position is offered within the Industrial Design Department, Computational Design Systems cluster. Research at the Industrial Design department investigates the everyday interactions between people and the highly interconnected technology that surrounds them. We measure, model, and design for the user experience as individuals engage with social-technological networks — at home, at work, in transit, and at leisure — and create innovations that impact systemic structures and groups of people, addressing large-scale issues such as health, mobility, and sustainability through iterative, circular research-through-design with strategic stakeholder alliances.

This specific position is in close collaboration with Catharina Hospital Eindhoven and Maxima Medical Centre. You will spend most of your time within the hospital.

Qualifications

• PhD in Industrial Design, HCI, Interaction Design, Health/Medical Informatics, Innovation Science or Management, or a comparable domain.
• Ability to conduct high quality academic research, demonstrated for instance by a relevant PhD thesis and relevant publication(s) on design research, healthcare innovation, data-driven or hybrid care, or health-IT and interoperability.
• Experience designing complex service or care processes in which process and technological solutions are effectively combined into workable, validated care pathways.
• Demonstrable skill in co-creation and (service) design methods such as journey maps, service blueprints, and stakeholder maps.
• Affinity with technical aspects of the data interaction concept.
• Hands-on approach towards creating data definition and ability to set and translate technical requirements.
• Ability to communicate and cooperate with various clinical, technical, industrial, and academic partners and stakeholders.
• Excellent mastery of the Dutch and English language, good communication and project management skills.

Requirements

• Full-time employment for 2 years.
• Salary in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities, scale 10 (min. € 4,241 max. € 5,538 gross per month).
• A year-end bonus of 8.3% and annual vacation pay of 8%.
• High-quality training programs on general skills, didactics and topics related to research and valorization.
• An excellent technical infrastructure, on-campus children's day care and sports facilities.
• Unlimited access to the modern on-campus TU/e Student Sports Center at an exceptionally affordable rate.
• Partially paid parental leave and an allowance for commuting, working from home and internet costs.
• A TU/e Postdoc Association that helps you to build a stronger and broader academic and personal network, and offers tailored support, training and workshops.
• A Staff Immigration Team is available for international candidates, as are a tax compensation scheme (the 30% facility) and a compensation for moving expenses.

Application

We invite you to submit a complete application using the apply-button. The application should include a:

• Cover letter in which you describe your motivation and qualifications for the position.
• Curriculum vitae, including a list of your publications and the contact information of three references.
• List of up to five self-selected ‘best publications’.

Ensure that you submit all the requested application documents. Please note that incomplete applications may not be considered and could be rejected.

We look forward to receiving your application and will screen it as soon as possible. The vacancy will remain open until the position is filled.