PhD Projects

HealthTech Doctoral Projects

At the beginning of every calendar year, HealthTech puts out a call for proposals for doctoral projects. These projects are submitted by permanent researchers within the HealthTech consortium and meet specific criteria for interdisciplinarity and medical application, as outlined in the HealthTech  charter. These proposals are evaluated for eligibility by a panel of experts internal to the consortium. Eligible projects are then circulated by the project supervisors, as well as the by HealthTech manager, to potential candidate populations. Candidates then contact the project supervisors directly to apply. 

Applications sent to HealthTech and not to the supervisors will not be reviewed.

HealthTech has 3 affiliated doctoral schools:

• MSII: The Doctoral School of Mathematics, Information Sciences and Engineering (ED 269)
• The Doctoral School of Life and Health Sciences (ED 414)
• Augustin Cournot Doctoral School (ED 221)

Applying for a Ph.D. Project: 2025 Calendar

The following projects are open for applications. For more information about a project or information about what documentation to provide to apply, please contact the project supervisors directly. HealthTech will not respond to any Ph.D. applications.

Important dates:

- April 20th : deadline to submit an application to the project supervisors

- early May: candidates are notified of pre-selection by supervisors

- mid-May: candidates are notified of 1st stage results by HealthTech; advancing candidates will audition before the jury

- May 27th: selected candidates audition before the jury

- mid-June: notification of audition results

Drug interaction detection in the ICU
Directors: Nicolas Lachiche, Vincent Castelain

Repair: Development of a predictive and patient-dependent numerical model to prevent recurrence after incisional hernia repair (REPAIR); REPAIR study: Recurrence Evaluation and Predictive Analysis for Incisional Repair
Directors: Daniel George, Benoit Romain

Dual control of catheter and guidewire for autonomous endovascular robotics
Directors: Stéphane Cotin, Florent Nageotte

Real-Time Synchronized Digital Twin for Emergency Departments
Directors: Fabrice Theoleyre, Virginie Goepp

IKONA - Integrating Knowledge Graphs and Neurosymbolic AI for Rare Oro-
Dental Anomaly Diagnosis
Directors: Cédric Wemmert, Agnès Bloch-Zupan; Advisor: Ali Ayadi

ReSONO: Refining transcranial ultraSOund therapy targeting using Nonlinear
Optimization
Directors: Elijah Van Houten, Jonathan Vappou; Advisor: Paolo Cabras

Dynamic Full Field OCT for in vivo cell type identification
Director: Sybille Facca; Advisor: Amir Nahas

INSIGHT: Image Inference for Patient Body Estimation and Internal Organ
Modeling
Directors: Hyewon Seo, Michel de Mathelin

Inventive Design and Biomechanical Study of Myoelectric hand Prostheses
Directors: Hicham Chibane, Philippe Liverneaux

Biomechanics of peripheral vertigo: from numerical modelling and simulation of various diseases to patient specific surrogate
Director: Anne Charpiot, Advisor: Daniel Baumgartner