1 (UMA) BOLSA DE INVESTIGAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA (BI) / 1 (ONE) SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (SRF) Lisboa

Organisation/Company Associação Universidade-Empresa para o Desenvolvimento - Tec
Minho Research Field Engineering » Civil engineering Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions Master Positions Country Portugal Application Deadline 7 Nov 2025 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon) Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 37, 5 Offer Starting Date 1 Jan 2026 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR A SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

It is now open a call for applications for a Scientific Research Fellowship in the framework of the project “Getty’s Seismic Retrofitting”, financed by the Getty Conservation Institute, USA, under the following conditions:

1. Scientific field:Civil Engineering or similar field.

2. Admission Requirements: The candidates to the scientific research fellowship should preferably fulfil the following requirements:

• A master’s degree in the field of Civil Engineering or related fields;
• Possess research experience in the field of the seismic behaviour of masonry structures and machine learning;
• Have a good proficiency of the English language.

At the time of the respective hiring, candidates must prove that they are enrolled in one of the following courses:

• Ph
  D in the field of Civil Engineering or related field;
• In a Course that do not confer an academic degree, integrated in the educational project of a higher education institution, in the area or area related to that requested in the tender (e. g. : postgraduate studies, advanced studies, specialized training).

3. Work Plan:

This research aims a tool to assess the
-
- plane response of historic masonry buildings, based on shake table tests and machine learning, with implementation in Portugal and Peru. The work plan includes three tasks:

Task 1: Definition of the experimental models and the test setup for Task 2, including preliminary numerical modeling of the experimental models using a Finite Element Method-based software.

Task 2: Execution of shake table tests with increasing seismic action and repeated tests for the same seismic amplitude, and results processing.

Task 3: Development of a machine learning tool for the assessment of the
-
- plane response of masonry buildings, based on the experimental results obtained in Task 2 and complemented by numerical results from calibrated numerical models, using the shake table test data.

4. Applicable legislation and regulation: Law No. 40/2004, of 18 August (Statute of Scientific Research Fellows), amended and republished by Decree-Law No. 202/2012 of 27 August, with the updates introduced by Decree-Law No. 233/2012 of October 29, Law No. 12/2013 of January 29, Decree-Law No. 89/2013 of July 9 and Decree-Law No. 123/2019, of August 28; Regulation of Research Grants of FCT, IP, approved by Regulation No. 234/2012 of June 25, 2012, amended and republished by Regulation No. 326/2013 of July 27, 2013 and amended by Regulation No. 339/2015 of 17th of June 2015, by Regulation No. 137-A/2018 of February 27, 2018 and Regulation No. 950/2019, of December 16, 2019.

5. Workplace and Scientific Orientation: The activities will be developed at the ISISE - Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering -of the Civil Engineering Department, School of Engineering of the University of Minho, under the scientific supervision of Professor Paulo José Brandão Barbosa Lourenço.

6. Duration of the Fellowship: The fellowship will last for 12 months, starting in January 2026, on an exclusive basis, according to the regulation of advanced training in Human Resources of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). The fellowship contract may be renewed up to the maximum limit allowed by the applicable regulations.

8. Evaluation and selection criteria and procedures: The selection methodology to be used will be the curriculum evaluation, with the respective valuation of 100%.

9. Composition of the Selection Jury:

Substitute Members: Daniel Oliveira, Associate Professor

10. Form of advertising/notification of results: The final results of the evaluation will be publicized through the ranking and selection minutes, attached to the notification sent to candidates via
- mail.

11. Application deadline and form of submission of applications: The call for applications is open from October 27, 2025 to November 7, 2025.

Applications must be formalized, mandatorily, by sending the following documents: Curriculum Vitae of the candidate; Certificates of the academic degree(s) required, specifying the final grading (mandatory) and, if possible, the grades obtained in all the attended curricular units; MSc thesis (or theses if more than one); English language certificate, if applicable.

The researcher responsible for the project reserves the right not to award the Scientific Research Fellowship in competition depending on the result of the evaluation of the applications and its suitability for the project's objectives.

Languages ENGLISH Level Good

Additional Information

Elevation criteria and selection process details are provided in the official notice. Please consult the notice for full terms and conditions.