PhD in the area of Engineering Sciences and Technology, sub areas of Bioengineering

See the complete Public Notice n 16/IDMEC in https://www.idmec.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/about/job-openings/

• Hardware implementation of new optimization methods to improve hyperparameter estimation of models for highly unbalanced datasets.
• Hardware implementation of personalized models using deep learning for real-time mortality prediction.
• Master and PhD students’ supervision, as well as other scientific and academic management.
• Writing journal and conference papers.

2. Applicable law:

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.

3. In compliance with article 13 of RJEC, the jury of the competition is composed as follows:

Commiittee chair: Prof. João Miguel da Costa Sousa

Members of the commiitte: Prof. Susana Margarida da Silva Vieira and Prof. Jorge Manuel Mateus Martins.

Alternate members of the commiittee: Prof. Duarte Pedro Mata de Oliveira Valério and Prof. Luís Manuel Mendonça Alves

4. The place of work is located at Institution of Mechanical Engineering (IDMEC), Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, under supervision of Prof. Susana Margarida da Silva Vieira.

5. In compliance with the provisions of no. 1 of article 5 of the Regulatory Decree No. 11-A / 2017, of December 29, this tender is open for the remuneration level 33 of the single remuneration table (TRU), which corresponds to a monthly remuneration of 2,134,73 Euros.

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 scientific research activity under an unspecified fixed-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 non-durable, being the contracting necessarily financed regardless of its provenance.

6.3 The contract is established for a maximum duration of 6 (six) years.

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 a doctoral degree in a branch of knowledge or specialty that covers the scientific area of Engineering Sciences and Technology, sub areas of Bioengineering, or related scientific area, as well as those to whom, under the terms of Decree-Law n No. 341/2007, of October 12, regulated by Administrative Rule no. 227/2017, of July 25, was recognized the totality of the rights inherent to the degree of “Doutor”, or to whom, under the terms of Decree-Law No 283/83 of June 21, has been granted equivalence or recognition to the degree of “Doutor” 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 Applicants should use the application form available at https://www.idmec.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/about/job-openings/ , addressed to the President of Institution of Mechanical Engineering (IDMEC), stating the identification of this notice, full name, affiliation, number and date of identity card, Citizen Card, or identification number, date and place of birth, marital status, profession, residence and contact address, including the e-mail address and telephone.

The equivalence, recognition or registration of the “Doutor” degree should be obtained up to the last day of the tender opening period.

Academic degrees obtained in foreign countries shall be registered by a Portuguese institution, according to the Decree-Law nr. 66/2018, of August, 16th, and the Ordinance nr. 33/2019, of January, 25th.

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”, PhD Thesis 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 themes and topics of the functions described in point 1.e) Other documents that the candidate justifies to be relevant to the analysis of his / her application.

8.3 Applicants should submit the documents described in 8.1 and 8.2 in PDF format to [email protected] , between 24 November and 09 December 2021. An applicant may, by reason of the impossibility or excessive costs, send any of the documents referred to in 8.1 and 8.2 by e-mail, deliver them on physical support, respecting the above date, by registered mail with acknowledgment of receipt to the address postal service “ IDMEC- Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001 Lisboa” or by hand at IDMEC. 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.

9. By decision of the President of IDMEC, 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:

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 practice-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.