Radoslava Švihrová

Hi, this is Radka! Aiming to bring statistical models to healthcare. Now looking for new opportunities starting in the end of 2025 / beginning of 2026 in Zürich / Basel or in close surroundings: either as a postdoc in the field of causal inference, sequential decision making or broader applied statistics, or as an applied researcher in industry.

Currently a PhD student at the University of Bern and at the Biomedical Signal Processing (BSP) group, part of the MeDiTech institute at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) in Lugano, Switzerland. Previously I was a Researcher and Data Scientist at the Software Competence Center Hagenberg in Austria, after graduating from master of Statistics and Data Science at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. Originally I come from Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia.

My current research focus is on applications of sequential decision making and inference for behavioral change systems and lifestyle quantification, utilising longitudinal wearable data combined with contextual information. During my PhD journey I developed a system for personalised nudging in e-health mobile apps by utilising bandits from reinforcement learning. For the evaluation of its effectivness and better lifestyle quantification I am exploiting principles from causal inference and causal discovery. I am also interested in adaptive clinical trials and real world evidence from observational data, including target trial emulation.

In my free time I like to travel and discover new countries and cultures, do mountain sports such as hiking, skiing and skitouring or just relax during a walk in the city or with a good book.

If you are interested in the longitudinal dataset with wearables that will be soon made publicly available, drop me an email and I will add you to the waiting list.

In curriculum vitae you can find something more about my journey. Everything on this page consists only of my own thoughts and is not in any way connected to my current affiliation. Feel free to get in touch by clicking at the icons below! ˇ