2 PhD Positions to study Open Science collaborations at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

The KIN Center for Digital Innovation teamed up with researchers from leading biomarker labs and life science companies to study new approaches for finding biomarkers that help us better diagnose and treat various forms of dementia like Alzheimer’s disease. Last summer, this consortium was received a prestigious Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant from the European Union for its MIRIADE Innovative Training Network. While the majority of consortium members focus on the life sciences aspects of this research project, the KIN Center team contributes expertise on innovation management and open science as a highly complementary asset to the consortium. The team will study how open innovation approaches can be used in scientific collaborations to ensure that scientific organizations can effectively share, reuse, and integrate their own research data as well as data collected and analyzed by other researchers. The study will provide insights into how a complex collaboration like MIRIADE with multiple research groups and companies involved, can better orchestrate their innovation process in order to improve and accelerate challenging tasks such as biomarker development.

In this context, the KIN Center is presently looking for candidates to fill two PhD research projects for a duration of four years.

Your main tasks and responsibilities in these projects are:
study processes of biomarker discovery in research network consisting of heterogeneous partners
identify and study complementarities by combining alternative discovery strategies used by different partners
study how the biomarker development process across different research groups can be orchestrated through collaboration
study what institutional, organizational, and social context affects researchers’ willingness and ability to share, reuse and integrate data
study mechanisms and processes that facilitate more effective sharing, reuse and integration of research data
experiment with feedback mechanisms through which data resuse contributes to quality and integrity of research data

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2 PhD Positions to study Open Science collaborations at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam