CD-CTTI-86-SGRH/2025 -Assistant Professor in the subject area of Physics Aveiro

CD-CTTI-86-SGRH/2025 -Assistant Professor in the subject area of Physics
Aveiro
Aveiro, Aveiro District, Portugal

Organisation/Company Universidade de Aveiro

Department Departamento de Fisica

Research Field Physics

Researcher Profile Established Researcher (R3)

Positions Other Positions

Country Portugal

Application Deadline 23 May 2025 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon)

Type of Contract Permanent

Job Status Full-time

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

CD-CTTI-86-SGRH/2025CD-CTTI-86-SGRH/2025 -Doctor Paulo Jorge dos Santos Gonçalves Ferreira, Full Professor and Rector at the University of Aveiro, hereby announces that for a period of thirty business days starting on the first business day following after which this notice is published, by extractive notice, in the Diário da República, an international public competition is opened, for the recruitment of 1 (one) position as Assistant Professor in the subject area of Physics, under an employment contract for an indefinite period under the Portuguese Labour Code.

The present Competition was opened on 25th of February, 2025, by order of the Rector of the University of Aveiro, is governed by the provisions of regulation on the careers of teaching staff in private law at the University of Aveiro and related hiring (regulation 384/2014, of 26 August), Statute of the University Teaching Career, hereinafter referred to as SUTC, approved by Decree-Law No. 448/79 of 13th of November, with the new wording introduced by Decree-Law No. 205/2009 of 31st of August, amended by Law No. 8/2010 of 13th of May and by the applicable legislation and norms.

1 – Admission requirements:

1. Applicants to the Competition must be holders of a Ph
   D degree in the area or related area for which the competition is open.
2. Applicants with qualifications obtained abroad must provide proof of recognition, equivalence or registration of a Ph
   D degree, by a Portuguese higher education institution, in accordance with the applicable legislation. This formality must be fulfilled by the date of expiry of the application deadline.

2 – Application requirements:

1. The Applications must be accompanied by the following documents:
1. Application minute for the competition addressed to the Rector of the University of Aveiro;
2. Detailed curriculum vitae containing all of the pertinent information for the assessment of the applicant considering the items of evaluation of point 4 of the present notice, recommending that it be organized according to the assessment criteria detailed in point 5;
3. Copies of papers selected by the applicant as being most representative of their curriculum vitae, no more than five;
4. Presentation of a single document containing the justification of the papers selected in the previous paragraph;
5. Report on the performance in scientific, educational and other activities considered relevant to the mission of the higher education institutions, focusing in particular on the papers that he has selected as being more representative;
6. Scientific-pedagogical project: Document which makes it possible to sustain a future charter of mission that must include a proposal of activities that the candidate intends to develop during the first five years of your activity as an Assistant Professor, explaining how you can contribute to the progress and development of the Optics area in the scientific and pedagogical aspects of cooperation with the society;
7. Document that objectively highlights the number of citations (if applicable) of publications listed in the curriculum and explanation of the method used to count the citations with enough detail so that the jury is able to reproduce the procedure in accordance with section 5;
8. Any other elements that the applicant deems relevant or the assessment of his or her merits.

2. 3 — The curriculum vitae should contain:

1. Full name of the candidate;
2. Document proving the position, group or subject, service time as staff member and the name of the University or Polytechnic Institution to which the applicant belongs, whenever applicable;
3. Specialization pertaining to the area in which the Competition was opened;
4. Copy of the certificate with the respective classification or other document that is legally recognized for the same effect. Applicants who hold a doctor's degree obtained abroad, must provide proof of recognition, equivalence or registration of a Ph
   D degree, by a Portuguese higher education institution, in accordance with the applicable legislation.
5. Documents proving all of the elements mentioned in subsections b), c) and d) of point 2. 3.

2. 4 — The applicants belonging to the University of Aveiro are exempt from the presentation of the documents referred to in points b), c) and d) of point 2. 3, which appear in their individual file.

2. 5 — How to present the application:

1. The application may be presented in Portuguese or in English and handed in via email to the Human Resource Department of the University of Aveiro (sgrh-avct-recrutamento@ua. pt), by the deadline stipulated in this Notice. The Services will issue a message proving the electronic validation of the same.
2. Instructions for the submission of applications, in digital format, are available in the area of Recruitment and Job area Human Resources at teaching staff new competitions and offers - sgrh - Universidade de Aveiro (ua. pt).
3. When formalizing the application, if a classified document is submitted that reveals a commercial or industrial secret; a secret relative to the literary, artistic, or scientific property; or that requires confidentiality, the candidate must identify the document with this information, under penalty of the work in question being unrestrictedly accessed by any of the other candidates, when consulting the file.

2. 6 — Non-compliance with the deadline for submission of the application, as well as failure to submit or late submission of the documents, referred in points 2. 1, a) to g), will lead to the disqualification of the application. Candidates will be notified of the exclusion decision by
- mail, for the purposes of the hearing of interested parties, in accordance with Articles 121 et seq. of the Administrative Procedure Code.

2. 7 — The jury may, whenever they see fit, request that the applicants hand in additional documents with regards to the curriculum vitae and set a deadline for the effect.

2. 8 — The jury will may, whenever it deems it necessary, hold public hearings of the admitted candidates.

3 – Competition Jury:

1. The Competition jury consists of the following:
1. President: Doctor Paulo Jorge dos Santos Gonçalves Ferreira, Rector of the University of Aveiro.
2. Jury members:
1. Doctor Henrique Leonel Gomes, Associate Professor with Tenure, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra;
2. Doctor Ana Cristina Gomes Silva, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, NOVA School of Science and Technology;
3. Doctor Paulo Vicente da Silva Marques, Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto;
4. Doctor Teresa Maria Fernandes Rodrigues Cabral Monteiro, Full Professor, Department of Physics, University of Aveiro.

3. 2 — The deliberations are held by roll call voting requiring the absolute majority of votes of the members of the jury present at the meeting, not permitting abstentions.

4 — Admission and exclusion of applications:

4. 1 - Approval on absolute merit:

The admission of candidates is subject to your approval on merit, based on the merits of the overall curriculum candidates in the disciplinary area of competition, taking into account, cumulatively, and compliance with at least one of the following requirements:

1. The applicant is the author or
   - author of at least 15 articles in the subject area that the competition is open, indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded of the Web of Science from Clarivate Analytics where document type = article or document type = review, or in the SCI Verse Scopus with the same characteristics;
2. Have obtained a total of at least 500 citations (excluding
   - citations) to the scientific works produced in the disciplinary area for which the contest is open;
3. Have an index h, according to SCOPUS or Web of Science from Clarivate Analytics, of at least 10 relative to the scientific works produced in the disciplinary area for which the competition is open.

4. 2 — Candidates must prove that they meet the above requirements (4. 1. 1 to 4. 1. 3), indicating the key to be used in the search for Web of Science from Clarivate Analytics or SCI Verse of Scopus that proves it, or including in their CV listing of the same database that confirms it.

4. 3— Methods and items for assessment:

1. The method of selection is the assessment of the curriculum which aims to assess the applicant’s scientific performance, pedagogic skills and performance in other activities relevant to the mission of higher education institutions.
2. In the assessment of the curriculum the following items are mandatorily considered and pondered in accordance with the requirements of the functions corresponding to the position to be filled with the present Competition:
1. The scientific performance of the applicant in the subject area that the Competition is open;
2. The pedagogic capacity of the applicant in the subject area that the Competition is open;
3. Other relevant activities;
4. Scientific-pedagogical project.

4. 3. 3 — In assessing the items referred to in 4. 3. 2 (a), (b) and (c), the extent of the curriculum of the candidates should be taken into account and the activity developed in the last five 5 (five) years and will represent 80% of the assessment in each of these areas.

4. 3. 4 – In the assessment of the aspects referred to in points a), b) and c) of point 4. 3. 2, special consideration will also be given to the activity carried out in the field of Optics, with the application of a weighting factor of 2.

5 — Assessment criteria

In applying the items of assessment mentioned in the previous point the following criteria are assessed, to which the indicated weighting factors are attributed.

1. Criteria for assessing Scientific Performance
1. Scientific production. Quality and quantity of the scientific production in the area that the competition is open (books, magazine articles, and congress communications), expressed by the number and type of publications, and by the recognition given to it by the scientific community (translated into the quality of Publication and in the references made to them by other authors). Articles in journals must be presented together with the number of citations, the journal's impact factor in the year of publication and the respective DOI.
2. Coordination and implementation of scientific projects. Quality and quantity of scientific projects in which the applicant participated within the subject area of the Competition; whether they are financed through public funds of national or international agencies or by enterprises. In the evaluation of the quality must take into account the obtained financing, the number of projects in which the applicant is involved as Principal Investigator, the degree of demand of the competition, the evaluations of the projects carried out and the prototypes made, in particular if they have been sequenced in products or services.
3. Intervention in scientific community. Assessing the capacity to intervene in scientific community, particularly by organizing events, being (co-)editor of journals, participation in the assessment of projects and articles, being invited to give speeches, as well as participation in academic juries and consulting activities and the recognition obtained through the awarding of prizes or other distinctions and their impact.
4. Constitution of research teams and orientation of academic work of
   - doctoral and doctoral students.

1. Criteria for evaluation of Pedagogical Capacity.
1. Coordination of pedagogic projects. Conception, development and direction of study programs or curricular units, proven by the institutions where the pedagogical activity took place.
2. Teaching activity. Total number of teaching hours and quality of teaching activity performed by the applicant, proven by the institutions where the pedagogical activity took place, using, whenever possible, objective methods based on extensive collections of opinion (educational surveys).
3. Orientation of students in final bachelor's and master's dissertations.

1. Criteria for evaluation of the Other Relevant Activities
1. Training activities shall be considered and or professional activity (courses, workshops, seminars), the participation in scientific, pedagogical or institutional management activities and the participation in outreach activities, transfer of knowledge or technology, contributing to the Mission of the University.
2. Analysis of the scientific performance report, educational and other activities considered relevant to the Mission of higher education institutions.

1. Criteria for evaluation of the Scientific-academic project
1. Analysis of Scientific-academic project: Consider the clarity and quality of the exhibition, the actuality of the content and other complementary elements considered, with special attention to the potential contribution to the educational and scientific development of the area of Optics.

5. 5 — The weight of each aspect and criteria are indicated in the following table:

Table – Weight of each aspect and assessment criteria

Items

Weight

Criteria

Weight

Scientific,

Performance

P1=0, 60

Scientific Production (C11)

P11=0, 50

Participation in scientific projects (C12)

P12=0, 25

Intervention in the scientific community (C13)

P13=0, 15

Constitution of research teams and orientation of academic work of
- doctoral and doctoral students (C14)

P14=0, 10

capacity

P2=0, 20

Coordination of pedagogic projects (C21)

P21=0, 15

Teaching activity (C22)

P22=0, 60

Orientation of students in final bachelor's and master's dissertations (C23)

P23=0, 25

Other

relevant

activites

Scientific academic project (C41) P4=0, 10

P3=0, 10

Knowledge transfer, or industrial activities, and dissemination or science management activities (C31)

Report on scientific and pedagogical performance (C32)

Scientific academic project (C41)

P31=0, 50

P32=0, 50

P41=1, 00

6 — Assessment and selection:

6. 1 — After the admission of the application to the Competition, the jury will begin the processes of analysis of the applications, taking into account the items and criteria set out in this notice.

6. 2 — In the first meeting, which may take place by teleconference as decided by the jury president and after examination and admission of applications, the jury begins to decide which applicants pass to the next phase on absolute merit. To this purpose, each member of the jury proposes, which applications do not meet the requirements at both a scientific and pedagogic level as established by the Notice for the present Competition.

After all jury members have submitted their proposals to the President of the jury, the jury votes on each application, for which rejection is proposed, and no abstentions are allowed; an application is rejected on absolute merit