PhD program

PhD training courses

When registered in a doctoral school, PhD students are required to follow scientific and socioprofessional (transversal) training programs. In this context, the catalog of disciplinary courses of the HealthTech Master track will be made available to interested PhD students, on top of other scientific and multi-disciplinary training opportunities offered by doctoral schools. For doctoral students who would like to register in HealthTech Master track classes as part of their doctoral training program, please contact the HealthTech coordination team to see if the classes are open. 
 

PhD financial support

HealthTech PhD project funding includes:

• up to 1000€ of small equipment per year of PhD
• the funding of missions up to 4000€ over the 36 months of the doctoral contract

This complementary funding supports the investment in new pieces of equipment for PhD students' experiments, and allows them to participate to national and international conferences, covering transportation and accommodation costs.
 

Graduate teaching assistant positions

HealthTech offers PhD students the opportunity gain teaching experience through teaching assistant positions. PhD students are strongly encouraged to teach in HealthTech's Master track, or offer lectures in our partner institutions.
 

Dual control of catheter and guidewire for autonomous endovascular robotics

• PhD student: A. Moustafa
• Supervisors: S. Cotin (INRIA) & F. Nageotte (ICube)

IKONA- Integrating Knowledge Graphs and Neurosymbolic AI for Rare Oro-Dental Anomaly Diagnosis 

• PhD student: S.W. Onyando
• Supervisors: C. Wemmert (ICube), A. Bloch-Zupan (HUS)

ReSONO: Refining transcranial ultrasound therapy targeting using nonlinear optimization 

• PhD student: L. Joly
• Supervisors: E. Van Houten & J. Vappou (ICube)

Dynamic Full Field OCT for in vivo cell type identification

• PhD student: J. Blon
• Supervisors: S. Facca (HUS) & A. Nahas (ICube)

The dynamics of technological and social entrepreneurship in healthcare: the issue of carers

• PhD student: N. Flämig
• Supervisors: V. Schaeffer (BETA) & G. Facchi (Opencare Lab)

ThermoNav: Automatic Multi-Needle Adaptive Precision in Percutaneous Thermal Ablation Planning

• PhD student: J. Mehtali
• Supervisors: C. Essert, J. Verde, ICube & IHU Strasbourg
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Geometric weakly supervised approach for multimodal Alzheimer's disease detection and monitoring: translational study in mice and human

• PhD student: M. Olaoluwa
• Supervisors: H. Drira, L. Harsan, ICube
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Uncertainty quantification in automatic delineation for radiation therapy

• PhD student: T. Kirscher
• Supervisors: P. Meyer, S. Faisan, ICANS & ICube
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Combined Raman spectroscopy and full-field optical coherence tomography applied in oncology

• PhD student: P.D. Le
• Supervisors: H. Salehi, A. Venkatasamy, ICube & IHU Strasbourg
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INTERACT: Investigating iNTraoperative Events to Reveal Anastomotic Complications in colorecTal surgery

• PhD student: L. Arboit
• Supervisors: N. Padoy (IHU-ICube) & G. Quero (surgeon, digestive surgery unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agnostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome)
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Numerical abacuses applied to the orthodontic field, a tool dedicated to the practitioners for the optimization of the chioce of shape memory alloys archwires

• PhD student: M. Abou Hamdan
• Supervisors: S. Touchal, D. Wagner, H. Jmal
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Robot-assisted, focused ultrasound device for volumetric Blood-Brain-Barrier
opening

• PhD student: G. da Costa Correia
• Supervisors: J. Vappou and F. Nageotte 
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Study and numerical analysis of femoral varus osteotomy by lateral opening

• PhD student: S. Rezaei Lafmejani
• Supervisors: M. Ehlinger, M. Bilasse, and Y. Othmani
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Tumour segmentation in multimodal 3D imagery using self-supervised learning 

• PhD student: L. Rebiere
• Supervisors: T. Lampert and A. Venkatasamy
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Laser scanning out of multi-core optical fiber for tumor treatment

• PhD student: S. Jensen
• Supervisors: S. Lecler and M. Diana
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Co-Pilot: Preoperative planning and intraoperative guidance for controlled articulated needles

• PhD student: A. Morin
• Supervisors: C. Essert, L. Rubbert & J. Verde
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Learn more about this year's selected PhD projects

Hand Fracture Surgical Video Analysis for AI-Based Training and Surgical Safety

• PhD student: C. Graëff
• Co-supervisors: P. Liverneaux & T. Lampert, ICube & HUS
• Learn more about this project
• Defense: 12/12/2025
   

Multiscale mechanical model for skeletal muscle using homogenization approach coupling imaging, modeling and genetic expression

• PhD student: A. Loumeaud
• Co-supervisors: D. George, S. Bensamoun & S. Chatelin, ICube & Biomechanics and Bioengineering Laboratory (UTC)
• Learn more about this project
• Defense: 08/10/2025
   

Deep learning based medical image outpainting for adaptive radiotherapy

• PhD student: C. Boily
• Co-supervisors: P. Meyer, D. Antoni & A. Lallement, ICube & ICANS
• Learn more about this project
• Defense: 01/10/2025
   

Robust intra-cell semantic segmentation for quantifying metastasis stages

• PhD student: A. Stenger
• Co-supervisors: B. Naegel & P. Schultz, ICube & IGBMC
• Learn more about this project
• Defense: 30/09/2025
   

Patient-specific study of the internal cemented screws for the pelvis metastasis

• PhD student: C. Sieffert
• Co-supervisors: J. Garnon, B. Bayle & L. Meylheuc, ICube & HUS
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University hospital institutes (IHU) : a new paradigm for innovation in the health sector?

• PhD student: L. Jeanneau
• Supervisor: S. Bianchini, S. Bollinger & E. Ruiz, BETA
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Learn more about this year's selected PhD projects

In vivo optical and elastic micro-tomography

• PhD student: E. Martins Seromenho
• Co-supervisors: N. Bahlouli, S. Facca & A. Nahas, ICube & HUS
• Learn more about this project
• Defense: 20/11/2024

Autonomous Endovascular Navigation

• PhD student: V. Scarponi
• Co-supervisors: S. Cotin, F. Nageotte & M. Duprez, INRIA & ICube
• Learn more about this project
• 09/12/2024