PhD in Process-Aware Information Systems for Circular Care Pathways

Job description
Are you excited about designing digital innovations for sustainable healthcare and eager to support Dutch care organizations in reducing medication waste while ensuring safe and compliant care? Join us as a PhD candidate on the NWO project REMARK.
Information
Healthcare organizations are under increasing pressure to become more sustainable while continuing to deliver safe, high-quality, and compliant care. Circular care pathways offer opportunities to reduce waste and improve resource utilization, but they also introduce new challenges. Healthcare organizations need to track resources across organizational boundaries, ensure compliance with regulations and quality standards, and monitor increasingly complex processes involving multiple stakeholders.
Existing healthcare information systems provide only limited support for monitoring circular processes and demonstrating compliance throughout the care pathway. As healthcare systems transition from linear to circular models, new methods are needed to continuously monitor processes, detect deviations, assess compliance risks, and provide actionable insights to healthcare professionals and managers.
In this PhD project, you will investigate how process-aware information systems can support the monitoring and governance of circular care pathways. You will develop novel methods that use event data and healthcare process information to provide visibility into the execution of care pathways and identify opportunities for improving compliance, transparency, and sustainability. A central goal is to understand how organizations can continuously monitor circular healthcare processes and ensure that circular interventions remain safe and compliant with regulatory requirements.
You will become member of the Information Systems group within the Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences at Eindhoven University of Technology. Your work is embedded in the NWO KIC funded REMARK project, in which a multidisciplinary consortium investigates how circular healthcare pathways can be designed and implemented in practice. For this project, you will collaborate with researchers from multiple universities, Dutch healthcare organizations and industry partners, giving you a unique opportunity to achieve both scientific and societal impact.

Requirements
You hold a master’s degree in Information Systems or a closely related field such as Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, or Innovation Science
You have a research-oriented attitude and have interest in Healthcare and Design Science Research.
You have interest in working with conceptual and process modelling approaches (e.g., BPMN, CMMN, DMN, goal modelling) as well as data-driven process analysis; prior experience is a plus.
You have the ability to collaborate in an interdisciplinary team involving academic and industrial partners.
You have the ability to translate research outcomes into practical tools and insights for stakeholders.
You are proactive, independent, and organized, with the ability to contribute to research management activities and coordinate tasks with partners and experts across the consortium
You are motivated to contribute to teaching and student supervision.
You have a strong publication ambition, targeting high-quality peer-reviewed journals and conferences in Information Systems and related fields, and motivation to participate in dissemination activities targeting healthcare stakeholders
You are fluent in spoken and written Dutch and English (C1 level).

Conditions of employment
Fixed-term
contract
: 4 years.
A meaningful job in a dynamic and ambitious university, in an interdisciplinary setting and within an international network. You will work on a beautiful, green campus within walking distance of the central train station.
In addition, we offer you:
Full-time employment for four years, with an intermediate assessment after nine months. You will spend a minimum of 10% of your four-year employment on teaching tasks, with a maximum of 15% per year of your employment.
Salary and benefits (such as a pension scheme, paid pregnancy and maternity leave, partially paid parental leave) in accordance with the
Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities
, scale P (min. € 3,204 - max. € 4,051 gross base salary per month (full-time)).
In addition to your base salary, you will receive an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% year-end bonus, both calculated based on your annual gross base salary.
Generous leave options: a standard 29 days (based on a 38 hour working week) per year that you can increase to 41 days by working two hours more per week (flexible working hours). This is prorated if you work part-time.
As a TU/e employee, you participate in the ABP pension scheme, providing retirement pension and pension benefits for surviving dependents and occupational disability. TU/e pays 70% of the pension premium, while employees contribute the remaining 30%.
High-quality training programs and other support to grow into a self-aware, autonomous scientific researcher. At TU/e we challenge you to take charge of your own
learning process
.
An excellent technical infrastructure, and on-campus children's day care.
Unlimited access to the modern on‑campus
TU/e Student Sports Center
at an exceptionally affordable rate.
We support your wellbeing with free 24/7 access to OpenUp, providing you and your family with mental health support, expert guidance, and online training.
An allowance for commuting, working from home and internet costs.
A
Staff Immigration Team
and a tax compensation scheme (the
Expat Scheme
) for international candidates.
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conditions of employment
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