FEUP|1 Research Grant Announcement |iMAD_out Porto

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Offer Description

1 Research Grant Announcement (M/F)

Call open for applications for a research grant within the framework of project 2022. 06672. PTDC – i
MAD - Improving the Modelling of Anomalous Diffusion and Viscoelasticity: solutions to industrial problems, with DOI 10. 54499/2022. 06672. PTDC ( https://doi. org/10. 54499/2022. 06672. PTDC ), funded by national funds through FCT/MECI, under the following conditions:

Scientific Area

Scientific Area: Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics or related areas.

Admission Requirements

Requirement 1:

• Be a student enrolled in a doctoral program in the area of Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or Physics, a requirement to be duly proven at the time of signing the contract.
• Holder of an academic degree enrolled in a
  - academic degree course integrated in the educational project of a higher education institution, developed in association or cooperation with one or more R&D units, a requirement to be duly proven at the time of signing the contract.
• Note: In the case of masters who are enrolled in
  - academic degree courses, the scholarship can only be awarded to those who do not exceed, with this scholarship contract, an accumulated period of two years in that typology of the scholarship, followed or interpolated.

Requirement 2:

• Hold a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics or related field.
• If the degree has been awarded by a foreign higher education institution, it must comply with the provisions of the Decree-Law no. 66/2018, of August 16th, and any formalities established there must be fulfilled until the time of signing the contract.

Activity Outline

• Study of generalized models of viscoelasticity.
• Study of the different fractional operators (advantages and disadvantages).
• Literature review of computational fluid dynamics for viscoelastic fluids.
• Development of new elasticity models (generalization of integral and differential operators) and new numerical methods for complex flows.

Legislation and Regulations

Law Nº. 40/2004, of 18th August, in its current wording (Statutes of Scientific Research Fellow) and Regulation of Research Grants of Fundação para a Ciência e a.

Work place

The work will be developed at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), under the scientific supervision of Professor Luís Jorge Lima Ferrás.

Grant duration

Initial duration of 3 months, with the predicted starting date in November 2025, on an exclusive basis, eventually renewable but never exceeding the end of the project.

Payment

The payment will be made by bank transfer.

Selection Procedure

The curriculum of the candidates will be evaluated (60%) based on the merit of the candidate:

• Academic training (Master in Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics 10 points; Others Masters – 2 points).
• Publications in the area of fluid mechanics, fractional calculus, numerical methods 5 points, Publications in other areas – 2 points.
• Research Experience in the project area – 5 points; in related areas – 3 points; Other areas – 1 point.

Candidates with less than 13 points in the curricular evaluation (40%) will not be invited for the interview. In the interview topics related to the work plan, experience and the candidate’s CV will be discussed with the invited candidates.

If none of the candidates achieves a minimum final score of 13 points, the scholarship will not be awarded.

Selection Jury

Results of the evaluation will be released to the candidates by email to the email address indicated in the application process.

Deadline for applications and form of presentation of the applications

The call is open from 21/10/2025 to 03/11/2025 (until 23:59 GMT time). Applications must be formalised by email to lferras@fe. up. pt and to recursoshumanos@fe. up. pt, clearly stating the reference FEUP-i
MAD_out and including the following PDF documents: Motivation letter, copy of certificates evidencing academic degree, detailed Curriculum Vitae; declaration on honour that the candidate fulfills the requirement. . . etc.