Dr. Tobias Kowatsch
Dr. Tobias Kowatsch
Lecturer at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics
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Research areas
- Digital therapeutics for healthy longevity (e.g., metabolic health interventions)
- Digital health interventions (e.g., just-in-time adaptive interventions)
- Digital clinical pathways and working alliance between patients, relatives, health professionals and digital coaches (e.g., conversational agents, voice assistants)
- Digital biomarker (e.g., detection of biological age, emotional states, stress, breathing)
Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Dr. Tobias Kowatsch is Associate Professor for Digital Health Interventions at the external pageInstitute for Implementation Science in Health Care, external pageUniversity of Zurich (UZH), and Director at the external pageSchool of Medicine, external pageUniversity of St.Gallen (HSG). He is also the Scientific Director of the external pageCentre for Digital Health Interventions, a joint initiative of UZH, HSG, and ETH Zurich. Moreover, Dr. Kowatsch is an advisor to the external pageCenter for Technology and Behavioral Health at Dartmouth, USA, and Lead Principal Investigator for Mobile Health Interventions within the Future Health Technologies Programme at the Singapore-ETH Centre.
In close collaboration with his interdisciplinary team and research partners, Tobias designs digital health interventions (“digital pills”) at the intersection of information systems research, computer science and behavioral medicine. He helped initiate and participates in the ongoing development of external pageMobileCoach, an open source platform for ecological momentary assessments, health monitoring and digital health interventions. He is also co-founder of the ETH Zurich and University of St.Gallen spin-off company external pagePathmate Technologies that creates and delivers digital clinical pathways.
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Degrees
- Habilitation / Private Lecturer in Information Systems with a special focus on Digital Health, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
- Ph.D. in Management, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
- M.Sc. in Business Information Systems, Saarland University, Germany
- M.Sc. in Computer Science in Media Hochschule Furtwangen University, Germany
- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) in Media Informatics, Hochschule Furtwangen University, Germany