PhD position in Clinical Natural Language Processing

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Temporary position more than 6 months · Full time. Requisition: 2026/1169. Country: Denmark. At the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, a full time PhD stipend in Clinical Natural Language Processing is available for appointment from December 1st.

2026, or soon hereafter. The stipend is available within the doctoral program “Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience”, and the duration of the position is three years. Project During patient care, hospital nurses write clinical notes daily, and these are essential for documenting the provided care, supporting decision-making, care planning, and communication.

Beyond their primary use, these notes may be used to analyze and learn from the delivered care and outcomes. Here, AI, particularly NLP, has great potential to extract, structure, and analyze clinically relevant information from these unstructured narratives. The project aims at enabling AI-assisted clinical decision support and documentation grounded in clinical practice and evidence.

Your work tasks This PhD project sits at the intersection of AI and healthcare, exploring how AI can assist clinical practice to improve efficiency, quality, and outcomes. A special focus is natural language processing (NLP) for health data, including large language models (LLMs) and agent-based frameworks1 …