Assistant Professor in statistics for the development of privacy-enhancing techniques in health care

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Public Sector, Education & Impact (employer-sector evidence). At the Center for Clinical Data Science, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, a position as Assistant Professor in statistics for the development of privacy-enhancing techniques in health care is available for appointment as of December 1, 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter.

The position is available for two years and comprises 37 hours per week. Your work tasks There is substantial potential to improve diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment across a wide range of diseases through data‑driven analytical approaches. Progress in developing robust methodological frameworks relies on access to extensive clinical data.

However, patient data are highly sensitive, and restricted access can limit research, innovation, and education. Privacy‑enhancing techniques provide promising avenues for enabling data-driven research while ensuring GDPR compliance and protection of individual privacy.

Despite rapid methodological developments, there is still a need for systematic approaches to evaluate and validate privacy‑enhancing techniques in real‑world clinical settings1 …