Public Notice /Edital LaPMET (164) IST-ID
Organisation/Company Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento _IST-ID Department DRH Research Field Physics » Other Computer science » Other Information science » Other Researcher Profile Established Researcher (R3) Positions Postdoc Positions Country Portugal Application Deadline 25 Aug 2025 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon) Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 35 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Reference Number Public Notice /Edital La
PMET (164) IST-ID Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
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NOTICE OF OPENING OF AN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF A DOCTORATE UNDER THE DECREE-LAW No. 57/2016, OF AUGUST 29, WITH THE AMENDMENTS INTRODUCED BY LAW 57/2017, OF 19 JULY AND COMPLEMENTARY LEGISLATION
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PMET /IST-ID
1. The Executive Board of the Association of Instituto Superior Técnico for Research and Development (IST-ID) took a decision to open an international selection competition for one doctorate position for the exercise of activities of in the scientific area(s) of Physics and of Sciences of Computation and Information in the form of an employment contract under an unspecified
- term work contract under the “Código do Trabalho” (Labor Code), aiming at :
• Implementation of original and independent research and development activities in the field of quantum computing theory, namely in one or more of its subfields, such as quantum algorithms, quantum computing energetics, quantum hardware design, etc. ;
• Preparation of applications for national and international funding;
• Promotion of the dissemination of results obtained and participation in scientific communication activities;
• Establishment and consolidation of collaborations with national and international theoretical and experimental research teams, including academic and industrial partners;
• Collaboration in teaching activities and student supervision, as well as the supervision of doctoral, postgraduate, and
- career research projects;
• Participation in advanced training activities and support for the scientific and organizational management of the research center;
• Involvement in knowledge valorization and transfer initiatives, and in science outreach and communication activities aimed at the general public.
Decree-Law No. 57/2016, of August 29, the regulations for hiring doctorates to stimulate scientific and technological employment in all areas of knowledge (RJEC), with the amendments introduced by Law No. 57 / 2017, dated July 19, also taking into account the provisions of Regulatory Decree No. 11-A / 2017, of December 29.
“Código do Trabalho” (Labor Code), approved by Law No. 7/2009, of February 12, in its current wording.
5. In compliance with the provisions of the Regulatory Decree No. 11-A / 2017, of December 29, this tender is open for the remuneration level (NR) 44 of the single remuneration table (TRU), 2. 956, 03€.
6.
6. 1 Decree Law no. 57/2016, of August 29, which approved the regulations for hiring doctorates to stimulate scientific and technological employment in all areas of knowledge (RJEC), is an enabling norm for this international selection competition.
6. 2 The opening of this competition is intended for the selection of a doctorate's place for the exercise of activity under an unspecified
- term work contract under the “Código do Trabalho” (Labor Code) approved by Law No. 7/2009, of February 12, in its current wording, being the basis of contracting the execution of a service determined, precisely defined and
- durable, being the contracting necessarily financed regardless of its provenance.
6. 3 The maximum duration of the unspecified
- term work contract is the duration of the especific task of the , and which is, expectedly, 4.
6. 4 Termination of the financing, termination of the project or completion of the tasks that are the subject of this competition shall determine the expiration of the contract that will operate with the communication referred to in article 345 (1) of the “Código do Trabalho”(Labor Code), meaning that the employer shall notify the termination of the contract to the employee, at least seven, 30 or 60 days in advance, according to whether the contract lasted up to six months, six months to two years, or per longer period. "
7. The competition is open for national candidates, foreigners and stateless persons who hold the degree of “Doutor” or hold the recognition of that degree under the terms of the Decree-Law n. o 66/2018, of August 16, in a branch of knowledge or specialty that covers the of Physics and of Sciences of Computation and Information or related scientific area, and are also holders of a scientific and professional curriculum that reveals an adequate profile to the activity to be developed.
8. Formalization of applications:
8. 1 Applications are formalized by means of an application form, made available at http://ist-id. pt/concursos/emprego-cientifico-projetos/ electronic address, addressed to the President of Instituto Superior Técnico Association for Research and Development (IST-ID), stating the identification of this notice, full name, affiliation, number and date of identity card, Citizen Card, or number identification number, date and place of birth, marital status, profession, residence and contact address, including
- mail address and telephone contact.
The recognition of the “Doutor” degree should be obtained by the date of the act of contracting.
In the application form, the candidate must indicate his / her consent so that the communications and notifications in the context of this hiring procedure can take place by electronic mail, to the electronic address indicated in that application form.
8. 2 The application shall be accompanied by documents proving the conditions laid down in point 7 for admission to this invitation to tender, in particular:
a) Copy of certificate or diploma;
b) “Tese de doutoramento” or equivalent document(s) that determined the award of the academic degree of “Doutor”;
c) Detailed curriculum vitae, structured in accordance with the items in points 12 and 14, indicating the works, and adding a copy of them, that the candidate considers most relevant to each of the items in points 12 and 14;
d) Scientific project, focusing on the field of quantum computing theory, in one or several of its
- areas, such as quantum algorithms, quantum computing energetics, quantum hardware design, etc. ;
e) Other documents that the candidate justifies to be relevant to the analysis of his/her application.
8. 3 Applicants submit the documents referred to in 8. 1 and 8. 2 in PDF format at the electronic address above indicated, issued up to the last day of the tender opening period, which is fixed at 10 working days after publication of this Notice. An applicant may, by reason of the impossibility or technical difficulty of sending any of the documents referred to in 8. 1 and 8. 2 by
- mail, deliver them on physical support, respecting the above date, by registered mail with acknowledgment of receipt to the address postal service “Av. Rovisco Pais, 1. 1049-003 Lisboa” or by hand at IST-ID Human Resources Division. Not being accepted the justification of the candidate for the delivery of documents only in physical format, the President of the Jury will give a reasonable time to present them also in digital support.
8. 4 The application and documents may be submitted in Portuguese or English, although the President of the Jury, and when a member of the Jury is a
- native Portuguese speaker, may request that, within a reasonable time, the candidate translates into English a document previously presented in Portuguese.
8. 5. Taking into account the participation in the jury of the present competition of members who do not speak the Portuguese language, it is necessary to present both in Portuguese and in English the documents of pronunciation in the Prior Hearing (formal rebuttal or “audiência prévia”) that are to be assessed by the Jury.
9. By decision of the President of IST-ID, candidates who do not comply with the provisions of point 8 are not admitted to the competition. Candidates who do not submit the application using the form or who do not deliver all the documents referred to in points 8. 2 (a) to (d) or who present them unreadable, incorrectly completed, or invalid are eliminated. The jury is also entitled to require any candidate, in case of doubt and for the purposes of admission to competition, to present documentary evidence of the declarations in the submitted documents.
10. Approval on absolute merit:
10. 1 The Jury will deliberate on its approval or rejection on absolute merit, by a justified vote where no abstentions are admitted.
10. 2 A candidate is considered approved on absolute merit when he/she obtains a favorable vote of more than half of the members of the jury.
10. 3 Candidates who have a scientific and curricular path relevant to the scientific area(s) of the competition and taking into account their suitability for the additional weighting criteria identified in 14. 5 will be approved on absolute merit.
10. 4 The unfavorable vote to approval on absolute merit can still be justified by the failure to fulfill the following circumstance:
a)the Scientific Project prepared by the candidate is shown to be clearly insufficient and misaligned with the scientific area (s), suffering from serious inaccuracies or not supported by previous work of the candidate.
11. According to article 5 of RJEC, the selection is made through the evaluation of the scientific and curricular path of the candidates.
12. The evaluation of the scientific and curricular path focuses on relevance, quality and timeliness:
a) of the scientific, technological, academic, cultural or artistic production during the last five years and considered more relevant by the candidate;
b) of the applied or
- based research activities developed over the last five years and considered as having the greatest impact by the candidate;
c) of the activities of extension and dissemination of knowledge developed during the last five years, in particular in the context of promoting the culture and scientific practices considered by the candidate to be of greater relevance;
d) of the activities of science, technology and innovation programs management or of the experience in observing and monitoring the scientific and technological system or higher education, in Portugal or abroad.
13. The period of five years referred to in the preceding paragraph may be increased by the jury, at the request of the candidate, when justified on grounds of suspension of scientific activity for socially protected reasons, namely for reasons of parental leave, prolonged serious illness, and other situations of unavailability for work legally protected.
14. The assessment criteria are set out in this entry, with the option mentioned in point 14. 5, with particular emphasis on the curriculum vitae and the contributions considered to be of higher relevance by the candidate in the last 5 years:
14. 1. Quality of the scientific, technological, cultural or artistic production, considered more relevant by the candidate, and relevant to the project to be developed, which was given a weighting factor of 70% considering:
(i) Scientific publications: a parameter which takes into account books, chapters of books, articles in scientific journals and international conference proceedings of which the applicant was the author or
- author, considering:
• its nature;
• its impact;
• the scientific / technological level and innovation;
• diversity and multidisciplinarity;
• international collaboration;
• the importance of contributions to the advancement of the current state of knowledge;
• the importance of the works that have been selected by the candidate as most representative, in particular as regards their contribution to the development and evolution of the scientific area for which the competition is open.
ii) Creation and strengthening of laboratory resources: a parameter that takes into account the participation and coordination of initiatives by the candidate that have resulted in the creation or reinforcement of laboratory infrastructure of an experimental and / or computational nature in support of research.
iii) Recognition by the international scientific community: a parameter that takes into account:
• prizes from scientific societies;
• editorial activities in scientific journals;
• participation in editorial bodies of scientific journals;
• coordination and participation in program committees of scientific events;
• invited lectures in scientific meetings or in other institutions;
• participation as a member of competitive admission scientific societies and other similar distinctions.
iv) Authorship and
- authorship of patents, models and industrial designs, taking into account their nature, territorial scope, technological level and the results obtained.
v) Coordination and participation in scientific projects: a parameter that takes into account the participation and coordination of scientific projects by the candidate, subject to competitive bidding, considering:
• the territorial scope and its size;
• the technological level and the importance of the contributions;
• innovation and diversity.
vi) Dynamization of scientific activity: a parameter that takes into account the capacity of coordination and leadership of research teams demonstrated by the candidate.
vii) Accompaniment and orientation of students, trainees and research fellows: a parameter that takes into account the orientation of doctoral students, master's and undergraduate students, trainees and research fellows taking into account the number, quality, scope and scientific / technological impact of the resulting publications, theses, dissertations and final course papers, distinguishing especially the awarded works and the international recognition.
14. 2. Activities of applied or
- based research, considered to be of greatest impact by the candidate, and relevant to the project to be developed, which was given a weighting factor of 10% considering:
(i) Vocational training actions: a parameter which takes into account the participation and coordination of technological training actions aimed at enterprises and the public sector, taking into account their nature, technological intensity and results achieved.
ii) Provision of services and integrated consultancy in the institutional mission: a parameter that takes into account participation in activities involving the business community and the public sector, taking into account the type of participation, size, diversity, technological intensity and innovation.
(iii) Design, project and production of scientific outputs: a parameter which takes into account the value of the Institute's activities of relevant professional experience.
14. 3. Activities of extension and dissemination of knowledge, particularly in the context of the promotion of culture and scientific practices, considered of greater relevance by the candidate, and relevant to the project to be developed, which was given a weighting factor of 10% considering:
i) Industrial and intellectual property;
ii) Legislation and technical standards: a parameter which takes into account the participation in drafting legislative and standards projects taking into account their nature, territorial scope and technological level.
iii) Publications of scientific and technological outreach: parameter that takes into account the articles in magazines and national conferences and other publications of scientific and technological diffusion, taking into account their professional and social impact.
iv) Services to the scientific community and to society: a parameter that takes into account the participation and coordination of sc
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