PI's: Prof. Dr. Alexander Horsch, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll, Prof. Dr. H.-Erich Wichmann
PhD Candidate: Kathrin Thaler-Kall, Dipl.-tech.Math.

In this doctoral project, emerging multifunctional biosensors shall be compared regarding the feasibility to use such devices for the measurement of multiple parameters (physical activity, heart physiology, temperature, breathing, electrical skin resistance, etc.) in large cohort studies with numbers of participants in the order of magnitude of 1000s to 100.000s. Aiming at the German national Helmholtz cohort, a representative sample from the German population of 200.000 subjects, the project shall study the various aspects of such biosensor measurements, like e.g. usability, robustness, data communication, energy supply, acceptance, which are critical to a large cohort setting. Several multifunctional biosensors shall be compared, including e. g. the ear sensor developed by the group of Prof. Yang (Imperial College London), and the two biosensors proposed for a feasibility study by the Helmholtz cohort. This doctoral project shall closely collaborate with the PHYTHELMo doctoral project, which aims at creating an appropriate ICT platform for data communication between biosensors and a study center.