Job description
This position is embedded within the PROMETHEUS project: PROstate cancer Multimodal Explainable Transferable Holistic Expert for Universal Stratification.
PROMETHEUS aims to develop a comprehensive AI "super-agent" that integrates multimodal health data, including MRI examinations, PSMA PET/CT imaging, histopathology results, and longitudinal electronic health records, to support clinical decision-making in prostate cancer management.
Research Objectives
- Predictive diagnosis: Should this patient undergo a prostate biopsy, and what is the likelihood that an identified lesion represents aggressive cancer?
- Personalised treatment selection: How is the patient's disease likely to evolve under active surveillance, surgery, or multimodal treatment?
- Evidence-based decision support: How can AI recommendations be accompanied by relevant evidence, uncertainty estimates, and transparent explanations aligned with current clinical guidelines?
Preferred starting date: 1 November 2026
Requirements
Profile
We welcome candidates with an MSc or equivalent expertise in artificial intelligence, medicine, computer or data science, biomedical engineering, technical medicine, or a related field.
You should have strong programming skills (Python, PyTorch), deep learning knowledge (multimodal learning, longitudinal modelling, agentic AI, uncertainty estimation), and an interest in clinically-grounded oncology research.
We particularly encourage applications from individuals across all groups traditionally underrepresented in the STEM fields.
Conditions of employment
Well arranged
With us, you receive 8% holiday allowance, an 8.3% end-of-year bonus, and – depending on your role – an irregular hours allowance ranging from 47% to 72%. In addition, you are entitled to 176 vacation hours per year (based on a 36-hour work week).
Compensation
You will receive a €0.18 per kilometer travel allowance. Public transport costs (2nd class) are fully reimbursed. If you work partly or entirely from home, you will receive €2.40 per home-working day. This way, everything is well arranged—wherever you work.
Flexible benefits scheme
With our flexible benefits scheme, you decide how to use part of your employment benefits. Purchase extra leave days or use your year-end bonus to buy a bicycle with tax benefits. You choose what suits you best.
Warm welcome
We believe a good start is important. Thanks to our onboarding app, you’ll be well prepared even before your first working day. During the introduction day, you’ll get to know your colleagues and our organization.
Changing allowance
If you are required to wear Radboudumc work clothing and change outside working hours, you will receive a changing allowance of €80 gross per month for a full-time position, provided this applies to your role.
Salary increase
At our organization, your work is valued. Your salary will increase in line with the collective labor agreement in two steps: by 3.5% as of July 1, 2026, and an additional 3.5% as of May 1, 2027. This means you’ll see a solid increase in your salary within a short period of time.
Work–life balance
We consider a healthy work–life balance essential. Through inspiring training sessions, mindfulness activities, and caregiver consultation hours, we support you in every phase of your life.
Growth and development
Our online learning environment offers a wide range of training courses, e-learnings, and educational programs—from professional specialization to personal development. This allows you to keep growing and make the most of your talents.
Employer
Welcome to Radboud university medical center (Radboudumc), where our research groups strive for innovative solutions that make impact on health and healthcare. We challenge the status quo to overcome current and future health challenges. Our goal is to shape the future of healthcare for generations to come. Our focus is on prevention, sustainability, and meaningful care, which we achieve through our in-depth understanding of disease mechanisms, clinical science, public health research, medical technology and data science. Our approach is centered on breakthroughs that can truly enhance personalized healthcare and public health.
At Radboudumc, a comprehensive range of research programs provide the compass for our research efforts. Each program has a clear goal, where collaboration within and outside our organization is highly valued. We integrate care, education and research in partnership with our patients to ensure that our research programs have significant impact on health and healthcare. We invite you to join us in our mission to create a healthy future for all.
Place of work
Our group offers an exceptional environment for clinically grounded medical AI research.
We maintain the world's largest international research cohort of prostate MRI examinations, comprising more than 22,000 examinations from 46 cities across 22 countries. This cohort has been established in collaboration with a growing scientific consortium of academic and community hospitals, researchers, and clinicians.
Our previous research includes landmark studies in prostate AI (PI-CAI) and pancreas AI (PANORAMA), published in The Lancet Oncology. These studies focused on developing and rigorously benchmarking state-of-the-art AI systems against more than 60 international radiologists from 45 centres across 20 countries.
PROMETHEUS brings together six leading European institutions with complementary expertise in medical imaging, prostate cancer management, longitudinal modelling, and medical AI.
You will be embedded within the Minimally Invasive Image-Guided Intervention Center (MAGIC) and the Diagnostic Image Analysis Group (DIAG) at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen.
MAGIC develops and translates image-guided technologies for minimally invasive cancer diagnosis and treatment into clinical practice and is internationally recognised for its expertise in prostate imaging and intervention.
DIAG is a world-renowned medical AI research group comprising more than 70 researchers. The group combines expertise in radiology, pathology, computer science, and biomedical engineering. Its work spans methodological AI research, large-scale clinical validation, and the translation of AI innovations into medical imaging systems used in clinical practice.
Additional information
You will be appointed for four years as a PhD candidate with the standard salary and secondary conditions for PhD candidates in the Netherlands. The salary depends on education. Scale 10 will be offered to MSc medical graduates. Those holding degrees in other disciplines will be offered scale 10A.
The research should result in publications, leading up to a PhD thesis.
This position requires a Certificate of Conduct (VOG).
We are recruiting for this position ourselves. Unsolicited marketing is not appreciated, but do feel free to share the vacancy in your network!
Want to know more?
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