Michal Doležel, Ph.D.

Dr. Michal Doležel is an Assistant Professor of Business Informatics at the Department of Information Technology, Prague University of Economics and Business, with a background spanning electrical engineering, biomedical informatics, and business computing.

Dr. Doležel's research advances a human-centered approach to the design and evaluation of digital technology — through the lens of Consumer Health Informatics, Human Factors, and human-centered design. His work spans two interconnected areas. The first concerns digital health technology, with a focus on how people engage with health-related software in practice, particularly tools targeting physical activity and psychological wellbeing. Current work in this area is conducted as part of the DigiWELL project at the University of Ostrava. The second area addresses information systems development and software quality management — how organizations build and adopt software, and what the social dynamics of that process look like from the inside. This line of work draws in part on over ten years of prior industrial experience in IT management across the telecom, finance, and pharmaceutical sectors.

Dr. Doležel is a member of the Human-Centred Computing and Information Systems (HCCIS) research group at the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics, where he leads the Consumer Health Informatics Lab. Current funded projects include ENCOURAGE-ME, an international Horizon Europe project (THCS Partnership, grant no. 101095654) focused on digital health tools for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, coordinated by Riga Stradins University with partners from Latvia, Canada, France, Italy, and the Czech Republic. He also maintains applied research activities through an independent research organization.