LAQV-IP-2023-EQB-LIA – Recruitment of 1 Principal Investigator in the scientific area of Chemical and Biological Engineering

30 Jan 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Department

Divisão de Recursos Humanos

Research Field

Engineering » Chemical engineering

Researcher Profile

Established Researcher (R3)

Country

Portugal

Application Deadline

19 Feb 2024 – 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon)

Type of Contract

Permanent

Job Status

Full-time

Hours Per Week

35

Offer Starting Date

30 Jan 2024

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Reference Number

LAQV-IP-2023-EQB-LIA

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

No

Offer Description

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Notice no. 2289/2024

Deadline: 19/02/2024

Pursuant to paragraph 1 (b)) of article 21 of the Statutes of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, homologated by the Normative Dispatch no  3/2020, of February 6, published in the DR, 2ª série, no 26, of February 6, the Director of the Faculty of Science and Technology of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Prof. Doctor José Júlio Alves Alferes, makes it known that, by order of 12/01/2024, from the Rector of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Prof. João Sàágua, is open, for a period of 15 working days from the day immediately following the publication of this Notice in the Diário da Republica, an international documentary competition, with internal reference LAQV-IP-2023-EQB-LIA, for the recruitment of 1 Principal Investigator, under an open-ended individual employment contract, under the terms of the Labour Code and under Regulation no 393/2018 of June 28, in the scientific area of Chemical and Biological Engineering, with emphasis in Alternative Ionic Liquids for the Optimization of Sustainable Separation and Extraction Processes , within the scope of the Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde – Tecnologias e Processos Limpos project, with the reference LA/P/0008/2020, financed by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.

This tender is governed by the provisions of Regulation no. 393/2018, of 28 June, (Regulation on the careers, recruitment and employment contracts of Researchers under the employment contract regime of the New University of Lisbon).

In compliance with paragraph h) of article 9 of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, as an employer, actively promotes a policy of equal opportunities between men and women in access to employment and professional progression, scrupulously providing in order to avoid any and all forms of discrimination.

I – Workplace:

Facilities of the Faculty of Science and Technology of Universidade NOVA, located on the Campus of Caparica, Almada

II – Activities and Functions:

The selected candidate will work as an Assistant Researcher at NOVA FCT and will perform the following tasks:

Design, development and execution of scientific research work that is aligned with the LAQV-REQUIMTE strategy and the sustainable objectives of the 2030 Agenda. In this context, the work to be developed must be focused on activity within the scope of the project, being responsible for coordination of scientific research work in the area of chemical and biological engineering, namely in the use and/or development of ionic liquids media for the development and optimization of separation/extraction processes in sustainable chemical engineering, including liquid-liquid separations, porous functional materials for gas capture and separation, or gas hydrate technologies.

 

III – Remuneration positioning:

In accordance with Regulation no. 393/2018, of 28 June, the contract to be signed will have the basic value of € 3.889,10 corresponding to the 1st remuneration position, remuneration level 62A.

IV – Applicant Admission Requirements

In accordance with paragraph 1 of article 11 of the Statute of the Scientific Research Career (ECIC – Decree-Law no. 124/99, of 20 April) of Portugal, it is a general requirement for applying to the present recruitment process, to hold a PhD degree and to have a relevant scientific curriculum in the area of the call.

Therefore, candidates to the present recruitment procedure must hold:

 – A PhD in the area of Chemical Engineering, recognized in Portugal (mandatory);

 – A scientific and professional curriculum showing a profile appropriate to the activity to be developed, including extensive international professional experience in (chemical and biological engineering, subarea of ionic liquids for the optimization of sustainable separation and extraction processes;

– A minimum of 10 years of postdoctoral proven experience in the development of ionic liquids media for sustainable chemical engineering;

– Proven experience in the development and optimization of processes for separation and/or extraction;

– Proven experience in coordinating research projects;

– A minimum scientific productivity of 75 articles indexed to WoS.

V – Application instructions

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

The application process must be accompanied by documentation in Portuguese or English.

The application should be submitted preferably by email, in person or by post, containing the following documents:

a) Curriculum vitae of the candidate, which must include:

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

ii) Research and development activities and all other activities considered relevant to this tender procedure, in accordance with the terms of this announcement.

iii) Scientific and technological development plan – the candidate must present, in a concise way (min. 2 pages), a scientific and technological development plan framed in the subject area of the competition, in accordance with the activities and functions to be performed and articulated with the results of their scientific activity and previous professional experience, as well as their academic and professional training.

b) Certificate proving the Doctor’s degree in the disciplinary area or similar to which the competition relates;

c) Published works, mentioned in the curriculum vitae, namely the most representative ones, with regard to their contribution to the development and evolution of the disciplinary area in which the competition is opened;

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

e) Other documents that candidates deem relevant for the analysis of their application.

 If a member who is not fluent in Portuguese participates in the jury, the pronunciation documents must necessarily be presented in English in the context of the prior hearing of candidates and complaints that must be considered by the jury.

In order to be valid, the applications must be accompanied by the documents listed in paragraph 3 otherwise they will be excluded.

VI – Presentation of the application

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

Candidates will submit their application documents by email to the following address: [email protected].

VII – Evaluation parameters

In this call the candidates’ ability and performance will be evaluated in the various parameters under the terms of article 16 of ECIC.

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

The parameters to be taken into consideration in the curricular evaluation of the candidates, in each of the sections, are as follows:

a) Quality of scientific and technical work (QSTW);

b) Professional experience and training (PET);

c) Contributions in scientific supervision activities (CSA);

d) Participation in management bodies (PMB);

e) Provision of services to the community (PSC);

f) Scientific and technological development plan (STDP).

VIII – Interview

The Jury will deliberate at the first meeting on the need to carry out an interview with all the candidates.

The purpose of the interview is to obtain clarification or make explicit elements contained in the candidates’ Curriculum vitae.

 

IX – Classification by absolute merit of candidates

In accordance with paragraph 1 of article 27 of the ECIC, the jury will deliberate on the admissibility on absolute merit of the candidates, by justified nominal vote, expressed by the formulas Rejected or Approved.

Each member of the jury presents a justified rejection or approval proposal for each of the candidates, in accordance with paragraph 1 d) of article 19 of the ECIC.

The candidate who succeeds in obtaining a favorable vote of more than half of the members of the jury is considered approved on absolute merit.

X – Ordering and voting methodology

Once the candidates who have passed in absolute merit have been identified, the jury will proceed to rank them in relative merit.

Each member of the jury shall perform a curricular evaluation of the candidates by presenting a written opinion, to be later included in the minutes, in which they propose the ordering of the candidates based on the evaluation criteria indicated in this notice, scoring each candidate for each criterion on a numerical scale from 0 to 100 points.

The evaluation criteria indicated shall be weighted as follows:

Quality of scientific and technical work (QSTW): 45%

The relevance of the results obtained by the candidate will be considered, with emphasis on the works indicated by the candidate as the most significant contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the scientific area(s) for which the competition is open;

Professional experience and training (PET): 22%

Extension and dissemination activities of scientific knowledge, namely the organization of courses, seminars and conferences;

Participation in scientific projects relevant to the thematic area of the notice; the previous experience demonstrated by the candidate and potential to coordinate and integrate constructively and profitably funded projects of a national and international nature, in the area in which the competition is open, will be considered.

Contributions to scientific orientation activities (CSA): 8%

Experience in teaching and advanced training, namely in supervising postgraduate students in the scientific area of the notice

Participation in management bodies (PMB): 10%

Participation and performance in tasks assigned by management bodies of the institutions to which he was linked.

Provision of services to the community (PSC): 3%

Performance of tasks for the economic and social valorization of knowledge, namely through management and provision of services to the community._.

Scientific and technological development plan (STDP): 12%

Career development plan, relating to the lines of research in the area for which the competition is open and which the candidate proposes to dedicate themselves to at LAQV, complying with the following requirements:

i) Presentation of the main problems to which you intend to dedicate your future research, contextualizing them in the current state of the art in these areas;

ii) Description, systematized and succinct, of the research strategies that the candidate proposes to adopt, to develop their research and resolve or contribute to the resolution of the problems stated by them;

iii) Explanation of the reasons and motivations for your choices. The career development plan cannot exceed 5 A4 pages written in 12 pt font size.

The ordering of the Approved candidates is done by voting of the members of the jury, respecting the ordering presented in the opinion referred to in the previous number, in 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 place, he will be ranked in this position;

c) If the situation referred to in the previous paragraph does not occur, a new vote is held, only among the candidates who obtained votes for 1st place, after removing the candidate least voted for that place in the previous vote;

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 candidates to determine the candidate to be withdrawn from the next vote; in this voting, each member will vote, among the candidates with equal votes, for the candidate who occupies the lowest position in the ordering contained in his/her opinion;

e) If there is a tie, the tiebreaker is done through the tiebreaker vote or casting vote of the president of the jury, under the terms of paragraph 3 of article 19 of the ECIC.

f) Voting is repeated until it is determined, by the procedure described above, which candidate to rank first. If there are only two candidates left and each one of them gets half of the votes, the tiebreaker is done through the casting vote of the president of the jury;

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

XII – Notifications and Hearing of Interested Parties

There is a prior hearing, under the terms of the Code of Administrative Procedure, of candidates who have been rejected, and of candidates ordered in place of the ordering list of candidates that cannot be provided in the job position in the competition. All candidates are notified of the homologation of the jury’s final deliberation.

Notifications are made by email.

The tender process can be consulted by the candidates, at the Human Resources Division of FCT NOVA, under the terms indicated in the aforementioned notification.

XIII – Jury composition

President:

Doctor José Júlio Alves Alferes, Full Professor and Dean of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, by delegation of competence.

Vowels:

– Doctor Carlos Alberto Nieto de Castro, Retired Full Professor of Faculdade de Ciências of Universidade de Lisboa;

-Doctor Maria Teresa Nogueira Leal da Silva Duarte, Full Professor of Instituto Superior Técnico of Universidade de Lisboa.

– Doctor Margarida Fernandes da Costa Gomes, Research Professor of Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France;

– Doctor Manuel Nunes da Ponte, Retired Full Professor of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa;

– Doctor Maria da Ascensão Carvalho Fernandes Miranda Reis, Full Professor of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

XIV – Data Protection

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

 

This notice is published for the record.

January 29, 2024 — The Dean, Prof. Doutor José Alferes

Requirements

Research Field

Engineering » Chemical engineering

Education Level

PhD or equivalent

Internal Application form(s) needed
Formulario_investigador_2023.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.en/faculdade/concursos/investigadores

Street

Campus de Caparica

Postal Code

2829-516

STATUS: EXPIRED