Researcher profile

Tobias Kowatsch

Dr Tobias Kowatsch is Associate Professor for Digital Health Interventions at the Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, University of Zurich (www.ifis.uzh.ch/en.html) and Director at the School of Medicine, University of St.Gallen (med.unisg.ch/en). He is also the Scientific Director of the Centre for Digital Health Interventions (www.c4dhi.org), a joint initiative of the Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, University of Zurich, the School of Medicine, University of St.Gallen and the Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Moreover, Dr Kowatsch serves as Advisor of Emerging Technologies & Data Analytics Core of the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Dartmouth College, USA (www.c4tbh.org). 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 on-​going development of external pageMobileCoachcall_made 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 Pathmate Technologies (www.pathmate-technologies.com) that creates and delivers digital clinical pathways. Tobias Kowatsch holds a PhD in Management (University of St.Gallen, 2016), a Master’s in Business Informatics (Saarland University, 2012), a Master’s in Media and Computer Science (Hochschule Furtwangen, 2007), and a Diploma (FH) in Computer Science (Hochschule Furtwangen, 2005). After his successful habilitation in 2021, he was also awarded the degree of a private lecturer with the “venia legendi” in Information Systems with a special focus on Digital Health (University of St.Gallen, 2022). He published his research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (JCCP), American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), JMIR mHealth and uHealth, Journal of Asthma & Allergy, Addictive Behaviors, Information Systems Journal (ISJ), and Computers in Human Behavior (CHB).