Notice no. 5313/2024 - International selection procedure for the recruitment of a Junior Researcher - area of Energy

13 Mar 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Department

Divisão de Recursos Humanos

Research Field

Technology » Energy technology

Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)

Country

Portugal

Application Deadline

4 Apr 2024 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Full-time

Hours Per Week

35

Offer Starting Date

14 Mar 2024

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Reference Number

CT-PRR-04-2024-DCM

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

New University of Lisbon

NOVA School of Science and Technology

Notice no. 5313/2024 published in Diário da República, 2nd series, no. 52, 13/03/2024

Deadline: 04/04/2024

Opening of an international selection procedure for the recruitment of a Junior Researcher

Under the terms of Order no. 181/2023, of 04 January, by delegation of powers, the Director of the Faculty of Science and Technology of NOVA University of Lisbon, Prof. Dr José Júlio Alves Alferes, hereby announces that, by order of 19/02/2024, is open for a period of 15 days from the date of publication of this Notice in the Diário da República, an international call for tenders, with internal reference CT-PRR-04-2024-DCM, for the recruitment of 1 Junior Researcher, in an individual contract for an uncertain term, for the maximum period of execution of the M-ECO2 (PRIO) project, under the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) Funding Programme Contract, pursuant to paragraph 1 of Order no. 11888-B/2021, of 30 November, signed between NOVA University of Lisbon and the Directorate-General for Higher Education, under the terms of Decree-Law no. 57/2016, of 29 August, amended by Law no. 57/2017, of 19 July, in the scientific area of Energy, sub-area of Solar Hydrogen, with emphasis on integrated photovoltaic-electrochemical (PV-EC) systems for storing solar electricity in H2/Syngas.

In compliance with paragraph h) of Article 9 of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, the New University of Lisbon, as an employer, actively promotes a policy of equal opportunities between men and women in access to employment and professional advancement scrupulously ensuring to avoid any form of discrimination.

I - Workplace

Facilities of the Faculty of Science and Technology of NOVA University of Lisbon, located on the Caparica Campus.

Department of Materials Sciences, Materials Research Centre of CENIMAT | i3N.

II - Activities and function

The activity to be carried out is part of WP2 (Development and production of green hydrogen) of the M-ECO2 project, which is researching the development of photovoltaic (PV) technology to power the electrochemical synthesis of sustainable fuels based on the electrolysis of water (to generate hydrogen) and waste raw materials, fuelled by renewable energy sources (solar and wind). Within the scope of this project, the contracted researcher's work plan aims to:

a) Development of electrolysers for separating H2O (+ CO2) molecules to produce H2 (+CO) and O2 with maximum efficiency, stability, durability and commercial attractiveness;

b) Design and development of the integration of demonstration photovoltaic modules in test applications for the production of gaseous fuels;

c) Study of prototype solar gas generation systems [of the type: light -> electricity -> H2 (+ CO)], testing their operation in laboratory-scale demonstration installations, guided by computer simulation.

d) Assisting in the management of intellectual property, technology transfer, exploitation and coordination of the execution of the activities involved in the project, such as the preparation of reports and periodic technical-scientific presentations;

e) Dissemination of the work carried out in articles and technical-scientific conferences, as well as periodic organisation of communication actions to promote the results obtained.

III - Remuneration positioning:

The definition of the position is based on the remuneration levels of the categories in Annex I of the Statute of the Scientific Research Career, approved by Decree-Law No. 124/99, of April 20th , as amended, and in accordance with Regulatory Decree No. 11-A/2017, of 29 December, corresponding to the 1st remuneration position, remuneration level 33, which corresponds to the value of 2.294,95€.

IV - Modality and duration

1.  The opening of this tender procedure is intended for the selection of a doctoral candidate to carry out scientific research activities under an uncertain fixed-term employment contract, the basis of the contract being the performance of a specific, precisely defined and non-durable service, the contract being compulsorily financed regardless of its origin;

2.  The unfixed-term contract will last for the time necessary to carry out the project, 22 months, or for as long as the respective justification persists, but may not exceed the maximum limit of 72 months.

V - Candidates Admission Criteria

1. Under the terms of article 12 of Decree-Law no. 57/2016, of 29 August, the candidate must:

• Hold a PhD degree in the scientific area of the call or in related areas.
• To have a relevant scientific curriculum in the area of the call.
• Practical experience in energy systems, electrolysers and respective characterisation techniques.

VI - Application Instruction

 The application must be completed by filling in the respective application form, which is available at https://www.fct.unl.pt/en/faculdade/concursos/investigadores .

 The application process must be instructed with the documentation in Portuguese or English.

 The application should be submitted by e-mail, containing the following documents:

Curriculum vitae of the candidate, which must include:

i) “Researcher ID”, “Scopus Author ID” and “Google Scholar ID” identifications

ii) Research and development activities and other activities relevant for the present tender procedure, in concordance with the terms of the call.

Certificate attesting to a PhD degree in scientific area or similar areas related to the procedure;

Published works, mentioned in the curriculum vitae, namely the most representative ones, as regards their contribution to the development and evolution of the scientific area in which the procedure is open;

Declaration, under oath, that if the jury chooses to request the documentation indicated in the previous items or any other scientific documentation cited in the candidate's curriculum vitae, it will be delivered within 10 working days;

Other documents that the candidates may find relevant for the analysis of their application.

If a member of the jury is not fluent in Portuguese, the documents for the candidates' prior hearing and complaints are necessarily presented in English that will be assessed by the jury.

VII - Presentation of the application

The application documents must be submitted by the 15th working day counted from the day following the publication of the Notice in the Diário da República.

Candidates must submit their application documents, in PDF format, by e-mail to the following address: [email protected] .

VIII - Interview

The Jury will deliberate at its first meeting whether an interview is necessary and whether to interview all or some of the candidates;

The interview if held, has a maximum weight of 10% of the total evaluation;

The interview aims at obtaining clarifications or clarifying the elements contained in the candidates Curriculum vitae, in case of need.

IX- Evaluation Criteria

The present procedure is designed to evaluate the candidate’s capacity and performance in the different parameters under the terms of article 5 of DL no. 57/2016.

The curricular evaluation of the various candidates in each of the areas described below must take into consideration the scientific area in which the call is open.

The criteria to be considered in the curricular evaluation of the candidates, in each of the aspects, are those listed below for the last 5 years:

a) Quality of Scientific Work (QSW);

b) Scientific and Technological Production (STP);

c) Applied or Practice-Based Research Activities (APBRA);

d) Extension and Knowledge Dissemination Activities (EKDA);

e) Science, Technology and Innovation Program Management Activities (STIPMA);

X - Reasons for admission and exclusion

The following are grounds for exclusion from the competition:

a) Incorrectly formalizing of the application.

b) Failure to submit the documents required in points a) to (d) of paragraph 3 of point V, or submitting them in an illegible or invalid format.

XI - Ranking of candidates

1. The jury will decide on the admissibility of candidates by means of a justified roll-call vote, expressed by the formulae Rejected or Approved.

2. Each member of the jury will make a justified proposal of rejected or approved for each candidate.

3. A candidate who obtains the favourable vote of more than half of the members of the jury will be considered approved.

XII - Sorting and voting methodology

Once the approved candidates have been definitively identified in absolute merit, the jury proceed to their classification in relative merit;

Each member of the jury will perform a curricular evaluation of the candidates by presenting a written statement, which will later be included in the minute, in which it proposes the ranking of the candidates duly based on the evaluation criteria indicated in this notice, scoring each candidate against each criterion on a numerical scale from 0 to 100 points;

The evaluation criteria indicated should be weighted as follows:

Quality of Scientific Work (QSW): 35%

Scientific and Technological Production (STP): 25%

Applied or Practice-Based Research Activities (APBRA): 15%

Extension and Knowledge Dissemination Activities (EKDA): 15%

Science, Technology and Innovation Program Management Activities (STIPMA): 10%

4.  The ordering of the Approved candidates is done by vote of the members of the jury, respecting the ranking presented in the statement referred to in the previous number, under the following terms:

a) The first vote is intended to determine the candidate to be placed in first place;

b) In the voting referred to in the previous paragraph, if a candidate obtains more than half of the votes to be placed in first, he is ordained in this position;

c) If the situation referred to in the previous paragraph is not verified, a new vote is held, only among the candidates who obtained votes for 1st place, after withdrawing the lesser candidate voted for that seat in the previous voting;

d) If there is more than one candidate to be withdrawn, due to an equal number of votes, with a minimum of one vote each, a vote is held only on these to determine the candidate for withdraw from the next vote; in this vote, each member will vote, from among the candidates equally of votes, for the candidate occupying the lowest position in the ranking in his opinion;

e) If there is a tie, the tiebreaker is done through the tiebreaker vote or vote of quality of the president of the jury;

f) Voting shall be repeated until it is determined, by the process described above, which candidate is to be ranked first. If only two candidates remain and each of them obtains half of the votes, the tie shall be broken through the quality vote of the President of the jury;

g) Once the candidate for the first place is chosen, he/she is removed from the voting and the entire process is repeated for the second place and so on until the ordered list of all the candidates.

XIII - Notifications and Hearing of Interested Parties

A prior hearing shall be held, under the terms of the Administrative Procedure Code, for those candidates who have been rejected, and of candidates who have been placed on the ranking list of the candidates who cannot be filled for the position in the competition. All candidates shall be notified of the ratification of the jury's final decision;

Notifications shall be made by email;

The tender dossier may be consulted by the candidates, in the Human Resources Division of FCT NOVA, under the terms indicated in the above-mentioned notification.

 

 

 

XIV - Jury Composition

President:

Doctor Manuel João de Moura Dias Mendes, Assistant Professor of Faculty of Science and Technology of NOVA University of Lisbon.

Efective Members:

Doctor Hugo Manuel Brito Águas, Associate Professor of Faculty of Science and Technology of NOVA University of Lisbon.

Doctor Rodrigo Ferrão de Paiva Martins, Full Invited Professor of Faculty of Science and Technology of NOVA University of Lisbon.

Substitute members

Doctora Ugur Deneb Yilmazer Menda, Assistant Researcher of Faculty of Science and Technology of NOVA University of Lisbon.

Substitute members

Doctor António Miguel Teixeira Vicente, Assistant Researcher of Faculty of Science and Technology of NOVA University of Lisbon.

XV. Data Protection

In accordance with the RGPD - General Data Protection Regulation, the data collected will be processed exclusively for the processing of the application.

And for the record, this notice is published.

 

NOVA School of Sciences and Technology, Prof. Doctor José Alferes, Dean

 

Requirements

Research Field

Other

Education Level

PhD or equivalent

Internal Application form(s) needed
Formulario_investigador_2023_0.pdf
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Additional Information
Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Country

Portugal

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Where to apply

E-mail

[email protected]

Contact

City

Caparica

Website

https://www.fct.unl.pt/

Street

Campus de Caparica

Postal Code

2829-516

STATUS: EXPIRED