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Detalhe da Oferta:
PUBLIC NOTICE/0005/2025
PUBLIC NOTICE FOR AN INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
FOR THE POST OF POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER
PURSUANT TO DECREE-LAW NO. 57/ 2016 OF 29 AUGUST
Internal Reference: gBIOT - Investigador doutorado júnior-2
1. Framework
The Rector of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Prof. Dr. Isabel Capeloa Gil, hereby announces the opening of an international call for applications for one vacancy of junior doctoral researcher to perform duties of scientific research and knowledge transfer (with an exclusivity clause), in the scientific field of biotechnology for the development of alternative nutraceutical nanotechnological solutions for gastrointestinal disorders. The research activities will be carried out at the Centre for Biotechnology and Fine Chemistry (CBQF), integrated at the Faculty of Biotechnology of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in Porto, within the framework of the project gBiOT–Nutraceutical biopolymeric-biocatalytic microbot against gut inflammatory disorders (Ref.ª 2022.02926.PTDC), financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology, in its State Budget component (OE).
Within the scope of this project, the work to be carried out aims to develop alternative nutraceutical nanotechnological solutions for gastrointestinal diseases., alternative nutraceutical nanotechnological Indeed, the activity to be carried out will be to design alternative nutraceutical nanotechnological solutions for gastrointestinal diseases, a modular polymeric microbot oriented towards inflammatory disorders of the colon, loaded with specific bioactive compounds, and to validate it at molecular level in advanced cellular models.
2. Applicable Legislation
Decree-Law no. 57/2016 of 29 August, amended by Law no. 57/2017 of 19 July, in its current wording, which sets out the framework for the hiring of post-doctoral academics, aimed at fostering scientific and technological employment in all areas of knowledge (RJEC), without prejudice to the specific regulations applicable to Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
3. Workplace
The workplace is located at the Porto facilities of Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
4. Remuneration
Gross monthly pay is €2.206,05, plus meal allowance, to which will be added annual leave and Christmas allowances.
5. Admission requirements
Any national, foreign, or stateless candidates who hold a doctoral degree in Biotechnology, Biological Sciences, or related scientific fields, and who furthermore hold a scientific and professional curriculum vitae whose profile is suited to the activities to be performed, can submit their application. If the doctoral degree was awarded by a foreign higher
education institution, said degree must comply with the provisions of Portuguese legislation regarding the recognition of foreign degrees. For those purposes, the requirements described in point no. 11 of this public notice must be considered.
5.1. General Requirements
The general admission requirements are those defined in point 5.
5.2. Specific Requirements
In specific terms, candidates must have:
a) At least three years of experience in scientific research and demonstration of a research trajectory in analyzing bioactivities (anti- and pro-inflammatory, oxidative stress, integrity of tight junction dynamics) in 2D and 3D cellular models of gastrointestinal cell lines;
b) At least three years of demonstrable experience in the development of polymeric nano/microparticles for the encapsulation of bioactive compounds;
c) At least three years of demonstrable experience in analytical techniques of flow cytometry, ELISA, western blot;
d) High impact publications, in international indexed (Scopus, WOS, PubMed) journals, as first author, that demonstrate results in the aforementioned areas;
e) Demonstrable experience in machine learning and advanced statistics for biosciences, using programming languages as Python and R;
f) Excellence in the command of the English language, both spoken and written;
g) Experience supervising postgraduate students, good teamwork and interpersonal skills, and availability to start the contract in March.
6. Selection Process
The selection process must comply with article 5 of the RJEC.
7. Assessment criteria
The assessment criteria are the following: scientific output and its relevance, participation in scientific projects and conferences, student supervision, scientific dissemination activities, knowledge transfer, and other relevant activities and experience.
The final candidate classification shall be given on a scale of 0 to 100. The value shall be invariably calculated taking into account that, for each item, only those activities relevant to the field of the present call for applications are to be considered, with the following weighting:
1. Scientific and curricular background (SCB)
a) Scientific and technological output: 80%;
b) Applied or practice-based research activities: 15%;
c) Knowledge extension and dissemination activities: 5%;
d) Interview (I).
If considered relevant, the candidates ranked in the first three positions will be interviewed (I), in order to clarify aspects related to the results of their research and experience. They will be asked to make a 10-minute presentation (including a PowerPoint presentation), in which they demonstrate their contributions to the research field.
Applicants who are interviewed will be awarded a new classification – in addition to the initial one –, based on the following formula:
Final classification = 90% SCB+ 10% I
Only candidates with a final rating equal to or greater than seventy-five, on a scale of 0 to 100, will be selected for this position.
8. Tender Selection Panel
Pursuant to article 13 of the RJEC, the tender selection panel shall be formed by:
President of the Jury: Prof. Dr. Manuela Pintado;
Other members: Dr. Ezequiel Coscueta e Dr. Tânia Bragança Ribeiro.
9. Deliberation and publication
The panel shall deliberate by means of roll-call voting based on the adopted and disclosed selection criteria, with no abstentions allowed. Minutes of panel meetings shall be taken. These shall contain a summary of events, as well as details of the votes cast by each of the members and their respective reasoning. After all selection criteria have been applied, the panel shall prepare a ranked list of approved candidates and their respective classification. The panel’s final decision shall be approved by the Rector, who shall also approve the hiring of the selected candidate.
The ranked list of approved candidates will be posted at the Porto facilities of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, located at Universidade Católica Portuguesa – Centro Regional do Porto, Rua de Diogo Botelho, 1327, 4169-005 Porto, Portugal and will be published on the website http://esb.ucp.pt/,. Candidates will be notified by email once this list has been made available.
10. Preliminary Hearing and Final Decision Deadline
After notification of the results, candidates have ten working days to respond. In the following five working days (counting from the end of the candidates’ response period), the panel’s final decision is issued.
11. Formal application procedure
Applications are formalized by completing the application form available at https://hr-ucpporto.inqueritos.porto.ucp.pt/889662?lang=en.
Applications must be submitted in English.
Applications shall include the following documents:
a) Curriculum vitae.
b) Doctoral Certificate with date of admission to the degree.
c) Cover letter, demonstrating the candidate's motivations.
If the Doctoral Degree has been awarded by a non-Portuguese higher education institution, said degree must comply with the provisions of the Portuguese legislation on the recognition of foreign degrees, as set out in Decree-Law no. 66/2018 of August 16th. Entering into a contract with the selected candidate is conditional on the submission of the formal document.
For additional information on this matter candidates are advised to check the website of the Directorate-General for Higher Education (DGES): https://www.dges.gov.pt/en/pagina/degree-and-diploma-recognition.
12. Application deadline
Candidates may submit their application, pursuant to the terms mentioned in the previous point, from February 5, 2025 until February 19, 2025 (until 5pm, Continental Portugal time).
Candidates who do not comply with the application’s prerequisites or who fail to submit proof of meeting the requirements stated in the present public notice shall be excluded from consideration. In case of doubt, the panel is entitled to request that candidates present further documentation attesting to their written statements. Failure to submit the requested clarification, information, or documents, within five working days of being requested to do so, determines the dismissal of the application.
Any false statements made or provided by the candidates are punishable by law.
13. Privacy Policy
Universidade Católica Portuguesa is the controller responsible for the processing of Personal Data in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – General Regulation on Data Protection.
The personal data submitted within the scope of this tender procedure is processed within the framework of said tender procedure only and will be treated by Universidade Católica Portuguesa with the purpose of verifying the fulfillment, by the candidates, of the assumptions established in the applicable legislation for their contracting. Opposition to the processing of data by the candidates will make it impossible to accept the application and, therefore, to analyze and evaluate it.
The personal data of the Data Subject, if it be indispensable for the fulfillment of the obligations of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, may be conveyed to third parties, namely to the Financing Entities identified in this announcement.
The data retention period shall correspond to the legally defined period of five years.
The Data Subject is entitled to oppose to the collection and processing of data, has the right to verification, the right to rectification, the right to deletion, and the right to restriction of processing of the data collected. However, the exercise of such rights may be excluded when personal data is used to protect public interest, namely in the detection and prevention of crimes or when subject to professional rules of confidentiality.
The Data Subject has the right of access and portability of the data.
Rights of Personal Data Subjects: https://www.ucp.pt/rights-data-subjects.
For purposes of exercising the respective rights, contact the University through the e-mail address Mostrar Email >
or by using the address found at the end of this announcement, through the means set out in "Contacts for clarification".
The Data Subject is always entitled to contact and file a complaint with the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (Portuguese Supervisory Authority for Personal Data).
14. Non-discrimination and equal access policy
Universidade Católica Portuguesa actively promotes a non-discrimination and equal access policy, wherefore no candidate can be privileged, benefited, impaired or deprived of any rights whatsoever, or be exempt of any duties based on their ancestry, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, family and economic conditions, instruction, social origin or condition, genetic heritage, reduced working capacity, disability, chronic illness, nationality, ethnic origin or race, territory of origin, language, religion, political or ideological convictions, and/or union membership.
15. Final remarks
The present call for applications is exclusively destined to fill this specific vacancy and can be terminated at any time up to the approval of the final candidate list. The call for applications expires once the vacancy has been filled.
The present call for applications and the contract signed as a result thereof shall only take effect if financing conditions are met.
The present call for applications may be canceled when it is vacant, when any case of force majeure occurs, or when other reasons of a budgetary nature, occurring after the opening of the competition, determine it.
The selected candidate shall be hired by Universidade Católica Portuguesa as a junior researcher under an uncertain term contract (contrato a termo incerto), predicted to start on April 1, 2025 with the estimate duration of 10 months (duration of the activities) which will never, under any circumstances, be superior to 72 months.
16. Contacts for further information:
Universidade Católica Portuguesa – Centro Regional do Porto, Rua de Diogo Botelho, 1327, 4169-005 Porto, Portugal
Human Resources Department Mostrar Email >