Prof. Dr. Tobias Kowatsch
Area of Research
Description of Research Interest
Dr. Tobias Kowatsch is Associate Professor for Digital Health Interventions at the Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, University of Zurich. He is also Director at the School of Medicine, University of St.Gallen, and Co-Chair and Core Director for Precision Digital Therapeutics at the Centre for Digital Health Interventions (www.c4dhi.org, CDHI). CDHI is a joint initiative of the Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care at the University of Zurich, the School of Medicine, and the Institute of Technology Management at the University of St.Gallen, and the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zurich. In close collaboration with his interdisciplinary team and research partners, Tobias designs digital health interventions at the intersection of information systems research, computer science, and behavioral medicine. In 2013, he initiated MobileCoach, an open source platform for digital biomarker and health intervention research. Tobias also co-founded Pathmate, an ETH Zurich and University of St.Gallen spin-off that develops and offers digital health interventions (e.g., Manoa for hypertension).
Special Expertise
- Design and Evaluation of Precision Digital Therapeutics
- Text- and voice-based, rule- and Large Language Model-based Conversational Agents
- Reaching and Engaging Vulnerable Populations with Digital Therapeutics
- Agentic Systems for Precision Digital Therapeutics
Shareable Platforms, Services, Equipment & Infrastructure
- UMZH Design and Trial Service for Precision Digital Therapeutics and Patient-reported Outcomes PRECIOUS
- UZH Agentic Interview Service ELIAS
Member of Collaborative/interdisciplinary Research Consortia
- Innosuisse Flagship Project: Swiss Precision Digital Therapeutics for the Prevention of Type-2 Diabetes
- UMZH Technology Initiative: Design and Trial Service for Precision Digital Therapeutics
