PhD scholarship in “Hearing loss phenotyping for vascular and dementia risk stratification” - DTU Health Tech

Opportunity summary

Official occupation: ph.d., naturvidenskab og teknik. Employment conditions: Almindelige vilkår. Employer CVR: 30060946. Primary career market: Public Sector, Education & Impact (employer-sector evidence). Are you interested in combining audiology, data science, and epidemiology to understand how hearing loss relates to brain health and dementia? The Hearing Systems Section at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), together with collaborators from the Copenhagen Hearing and Balance Centre (CHBC), Rigshospitalet, invite applications for a 3-year PhD position as part of the VERA project (Vascular Effects on the Risk of Age-related Hearing Loss and Dementia). This position is part of an international Alliance PhD programme between DTU and the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. Age-related hearing loss is strongly associated with cognitive decline and dementia, but the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain unclear. A key limitation in existing research is that hearing loss is typically treated as a single, homogeneous condition. This PhD project addresses this gap by decomposing hearing loss into biologically meaningful components - in particular metabolic and sensory-dominated patterns - and evaluating how these relate to vascular disease burden and dementia risk1 …

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