International tender for the position of Full Professor, in the area of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, subarea of Biomedical Sciences, disciplinary group of Neurosciences at the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University of Algarve

Universidade do Algarve, Portugal

Updated: about 2 months ago

Job Type: FullTime

Deadline: 11 Apr 2025

5 Mar 2025
Job Information

Organisation/Company: Universidade do Algarve
Department: Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Research Field: Neurosciences » Other
Researcher Profile: Other Profession
Positions: PhD Positions
Country: Portugal
Application Deadline: 11 Apr 2025 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon)
Type of Contract: Permanent
Job Status: Full-time
Hours Per Week: 35
Offer Starting Date: 1 Mar 2025
Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?: Not funded by a EU programme
Reference Number: Edital nº 405/2025 | OE202502/1251
Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?: No

Offer Description

By ordinance dated November 7, 2024 issued by the Rector of the University of Algarve, an international tender has been opened for the filling of a vacancy for the position of Full Professor in the area of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, subarea Biomedical Sciences, disciplinary group of Neurosciences at the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University of Algarve.

The tender will be open for a period of 30 working days, starting from the working day immediately following the publication of this announcement in Diário da República (the Official Portuguese Gazette).

The purpose of this tender is to fill the position, in the form of a non-fixed-term contract as a government employee, in accordance with Article 19 of ECDU. The tender will end once the position has been filled.

This tender is governed by the provisions of Article 38 and Article 40 and following of the Estatuto da Carreira Docente Universitária (Career Statutes for University Academic Staff, forthwith referred to as ECDU), in its current version, as well as the Regulation for the Tendering of Personnel for Teaching Careers at the University of Algarve, Regulation no. 520/2010, published in Diário da República, 2nd series, no. 111, on 9 June 2010.

This tender will be published in the Public Employment Exchange (BEP), within 2 working days after its publication in Diário da República, as decreed by Law no. 78/2003, of 23 April, advertised on the Euraxess Portugal portal at https://www.euraxess.pt , and on the University’s website, in both Portuguese and English, in accordance with Article 62-A, paragraph 1, of ECDU, in its current version.

The rector is authorized, under Article 92, paragraphs d), e) and q) of Law 62/2007 of 10 September, to cancel the tender in the event of extenuating circumstances.

In compliance with Article 9, paragraph h) of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, Public Administrations actively promote a policy of equal opportunities for employment and career progression between men and women, taking every possible measure to avoid any kind of discrimination.

I - Admission requirements

1. Admission requirements

a) Applicants must hold a doctoral degree for more than five years in a specialty considered appropriate for the disciplinary area in which the tender was opened,

i) Holders of a doctoral degree obtained outside Portugal must prove their degree is recognized in Portugal under the terms of Decree-Law No. 66/2018, of 16 August, and other applicable legislation;

ii) Applicants to whom the previous subparagraph applies who do not provide proof of recognition or the request for recognition, before the end of the application period, will be excluded from the tender;

iii) In the event of contract execution, failure to submit the degree recognition document prevents the contract from being concluded with the candidate, and the hiring proposal will be transferred to the next candidate.

b) Applicants must hold the title of aggregate in a branch of knowledge that includes or is related to the disciplinary area of the tender;

c) Applicants must be fluent in Portuguese;

d) Applicants must meet the general requirements for employment in public functions foreseen in the Law No. 35/2014, of 20 June, unless exempted by the ECDU.

2. Applicants will be excluded from the tender procedure if they:

a) Do not hold a doctoral degree for more than five years in a specialty considered appropriate for the disciplinary area in which the tender was opened, in accordance with Article 40 of ECDU;

b) Do not hold a recognized doctoral degree or proof that they requested its recognition, by the closing date of the tender, if their qualification is from a foreign institution;

c) Do not hold the title of aggregate in a branch of knowledge that includes or is related to the disciplinary area of the tender.

d) Do not submit the required documents stipulated in the Public Notice, within the designated deadline;

e) Do not meet the general requirements for employment in public functions foreseen in Article 17 of the Labor Law in Public Functions, contained in the Annex to Law No. 35/2014, of 20 June, in its current wording, unless exempted by the ECDU.

3 - The selection committee will notify the candidates of their admission or exclusion, by email with receipt of delivery, for purpose of a hearing of the interested parties.

II – Admission requirements in absolute merit and their assessment:

1. Acceptance of applicants on the basis of absolute merit will depend on, cumulatively:

a) Having published at least forty (40) scientific articles with a DOI, impact factor, and peer review in the top two quartiles (Q1 and Q2) within the scientific field for which the tender is open, with the following requirements:

i) Being the first or last author in at least twenty (20) of these articles;

ii) Having at least fifteen (15) of these articles published in the last five years.

b) Have participated in at least ten (10) approved R&D projects for funding, with only projects exceeding €25,000 being counted, assuming the coordination of at least five (5) of those projects as the principal researcher (PR) at the institution to which they belonged;

c) Have had responsibilities in postgraduate education, demonstrated by the principal supervision of at least ten (10) completed Doctoral theses and/or Master's dissertations and/or Integrated Master's theses in the scientific area for which the tender is open;

d) Have experience in teaching and/or pedagogical coordination of a course or group of courses at the undergraduate or postgraduate level in the disciplinary area for which the tender is open;

e) Have experience in performing tasks related to university extension, scientific dissemination, and economic and social valorization of knowledge;

f) Have participated for at least three years in academic and university management positions;

g) Have an h-index (SCOPUS or Clarivate Analytics Web of Science) of 20 or higher.

2. A vote against admission on absolute merit must be justified by the fact that the candidate does not meet at least one of the requirements listed in the previous number.

3. In order to assess the absolute merit of the applicants, each member of the selection committee will independently submit a list of the applicants that do not meet the requirements indicated in paragraph 1 of point II, and provide a written justification for their decision, and then the selection committee will proceed to vote on each of those proposals, in accordance with Article 50, paragraph 1, subparagraph b) of the ECDU, no abstentions being allowed.

4. An application will be rejected on absolute merit if at least one such proposal will be voted by the majority of the members of the selection committee present at the meeting. The justification for exclusion of the applicant will be an integral part of the meeting minutes.

5. The selection committee will notify applicants of the admission or exclusion based on absolute merit, by means of e-mail with a receipt of delivery, for the purpose of a preliminary hearing.

III — Application instructions

1. The application must be submitted by means of a request addressed to the Rector of the University of Algarve, available on the website of the University https://www.ualg.pt/procedimentos-concursais , by accessing Documents – Teaching Staff – Application Form, and it may be submitted:

a) In person, at the Human Resources Department, situated on floor 0 of the Library Building at the Penha Campus of the University of Algarve, in Faro; or

b) By registered mail, posted no later than the deadline for submitting the applications, addressed to: Serviços de Recursos Humanos, Campus da Penha, Universidade do Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal.

2. The application for admission to the tender, dated and signed, must include the following documents, in Portuguese or English and in electronic format:

a) A valid identification document at the time of application;

b) Certificate proving that the applicant holds an academic degree or the recognition of the degree (when applicable) in an area relevant to the tender;

c) Certificate proving the title of aggregate, in an area suitable for the tender;

d) One (1) copy of the curriculum vitae, dated and signed, including an index and numbered attachments, which details the scientific, pedagogical, and other activities relevant to the mission of higher education institutions carried out by the candidate, for the purposes of Article 50, No. 6, of the ECDU, strictly following the order of the parameters and factors stated in Point V of this announcement and the list of works to be presented according to the following paragraph;

e) One (1) copy of each of the works selected by the candidate for the purposes specified in Point V.A) i), up to a maximum of five, that have contributed to the advancement of the area or sub-areas/disciplines in the tender, and optionally, a contextual document explaining the relevance of the selected publications;

f) Indication of the results of the pedagogic surveys, carried out in relation to the curricular units for which the applicant has been responsible, when they exist and if applicable, as foreseen in Article 50, paragraph 6, subparagraph b) of the ECDU;

g) Document with a career development plan, a maximum of four (4) A4 pages, in Times New Roman 12 font, 1.15 spacing, containing objectives, a scientific and pedagogical development plan, and a synopsis of the research line that the candidate intends to implement;

h) Other documents which the applicant considers of interest to further demonstrate his/her scientific performance, pedagogic skills, and other relevant activities and which would constitute a legal basis for ranking candidates, should the selection committee deem them appropriate and duly proven;

i) A criminal clearance certificate attesting to the fact that the applicant is not banned from working in government service or from exercising the professional functions for which he/she is applying;

i) A statement confirming that the applicant has the physical robustness and mental profile indispensable for the exercise of the functions in question;

k) An up-to-date vaccination certificate.

3. The documents referred in paragraphs i) to k), may be waived during the submission stage of the application, provided that the applicants declare under oath the situation in which they find themselves in relation to each of these requirements. The failure to make a written declaration constitutes grounds for exclusion. The delivery of these documents will be required, should the applicant be selected for the vacancy.

4. The PDF documents required in paragraphs b) to h) should be delivered in a pen-drive, which should be searchable and contain the entries of publications associated with clickable links to the documents/domains that contain the publication, which may be recorded in the same digital media or exist in a repository for free access in the Internet. There should also be clickable links to the web pages of the entities or events referred to in the curriculum vitae, and when relevant, and feasible, to the web pages of the courses (curricular units) for which the applicant has been responsible.

5. The curriculum vitae and respective appendices must be systematized in the order of the parameters and factors listed in point V of this Announcement. Failure to comply with this order may result in the information not being considered for evaluation.

6. According to Article 7, paragraph 2 of the Regulation governing tenders for the contracting of lecturing personnel for the University of Algarve, the hiring committee may request additional documentation related to the submitted curriculum.

IV – Public Hearings

1. The selection committee may decide to hold public hearings, on an equal footing for all applicants, and pursuant to the terms of Article 50, paragraph 4, subparagraph b) of the ECDU and pursuant to Article 7, paragraph 2, of the Regulation governing tenders for the contracting of lecturing personnel for the University of Algarve;

2. If the tender selection committee decides to hold the hearings referred to in the previous paragraph, the conditions and scheduling of the hearing shall be announced to the applicants at least eight (8) days in advance.

V - Evaluation parameters and seriation in relative merit, respective weighting and final valuation system

The evaluation and ranking based on relative merit is based on the ranking criteria and their respective weighting identified below, resulting in the ordering of the weighted average of the quantitative scores obtained in each of the evaluation parameters, within a scale of 0 - 100 points:

Curricular Evaluation (100%) — The Curricular Evaluation focuses on activities developed by the candidates in the area and/or sub-areas and/or disciplinary groups of the tender, and suitable for the position of Full Professor, considering the following parameters:

A) Scientific Performance (50%);

B) Pedagogical Capacity (30%);

C) Other activities relevant to the mission of the University (20%).

A) Scientific Performance (50%) of the candidate in the area and/or sub-areas and/or disciplinary groups for which the tender is open, considering the following evaluation parameters:

a) Scientific publications: books, book chapters, articles in scientific journals, and proceedings of international conferences authored or co-authored by the candidate, considering: their nature; the impact factor; the number of quotes; the technological level; innovation; the significance of contributions to the advancement of the current state of knowledge and to the development and evolution of the disciplinary area/sub-area for which the tender is open (40%);

b) Scientific projects: coordination and participation in scientific projects within competitive programs, distinguishing between national and international programs. The ability to attract competitive funding and the challenges and results (scientific and/or technological and/or innovative) should be highlighted (20%);

c) Autonomy and leadership: participation and coordination of initiatives for the implementation or enhancement of experimental and/or computational laboratory infrastructures to support research. Coordination and leadership of research teams (20%);

d) Peer recognition: awards from scientific societies or obtained at scientific meetings, editorial and review activities in scientific journals, peer review activities (programs, projects, grants, awards), coordination or participation in program committees for scientific events, invited lectures at scientific meetings or in other universities, participation as a member of competitively admitted scientific societies, and other similar distinctions (10%);

e) Career development plan: the potential contribution of the submitted document to the scientific and pedagogical development of the area/subarea and disciplinary groups related to this tender will be evaluated, with the aim of promoting the associated teaching and research activities (10%).

B) Pedagogical capacity (30%) considering the following evaluation parameters:

a) Teaching: teaching of coordinated and/or taught curricular units, and/or related to the area/sub-area of the tender: diversity and, if possible, the range of students and results of surveys on teaching activity (pedagogical) (40%);

b) Pedagogical innovation: promotion of new pedagogical initiatives: well-founded and coherent proposals for the creation and/or reformulation of curricular units, creation or enhancement of laboratory infrastructures to support teaching (experimental and/or computational in nature), and creation or restructuring of groups of curricular units or study plans (30%);

c) Student supervision: a parameter that takes into account the supervision of doctoral students, master students, and undergraduate students, considering the number, quality, scope, and scientific/technological impact of the resulting publications, theses, dissertations, and final course projects, with particular emphasis on international recognition. Cases of supervision, co-supervision, or guidance should be distinguished (30%).

C) Other relevant activities (20%), considering the following evaluation parameters:

a) Participation in management activities in higher education institutions/business or research entities or in other organizations of a scientific, technological, or cultural nature that carry out activities relevant to the mission of the former (40%);

b) Participation in actions and publications for scientific, cultural, or technological dissemination, development of extension projects, and provision of services to the scientific/educational community, with an emphasis on the area to which the candidate is applying (30%);

c) Organization of scientific or educational events in the area to which the candidate is applying (30%);

VI - Selection process in relative merit

1.The methodology for selection in relative merit is the following:

a) Before voting begins, each member of the selection committee will submit a written document, which will be annexed to the meeting minutes, stating their own ordering of the applicants, of the applicants’ scientific performance, pedagogic skills, other relevant activities, with their respective weights. At each ballot, every member of the selection committee will abide by the ordering they submitted, and abstentions are not permitted;

b) The first ballot is intended to determine which applicant is placed at the top of the ordered list;

c) If an applicant obtains more than half of the votes, he/she shall be ranked first in the ordered list;

d) If two applicants obtain exactly half of the votes, the president of the selection committee breaks the tie by choosing for the first place on the ranked list the one who has the better evaluation in the scientific performance criterion, and if the tie persists, the one who has the oldest date of obtaining the doctoral degree;

e) If neither of those two cases occurs (c and d), a new vote will be held after removing the candidates who did not receive any votes in the first voting and also eliminating the least voted candidate but who received at least one vote;

f) If there is a draw between two or more applicants for the position of least-voted, another ballot shall be held to determine which of the least-voted applicants shall be eliminated. At this ballot, selection committee members vote for the applicant ranked last in their own seriation;

g) If there is still a draw between two or more applicants, the selection committee president breaks the tie by eliminating the candidate with the least seniority in the category, and if the tie still remains, the one who has the most recent date of obtaining the doctoral degree;

h) After this applicant has been eliminated along with the applicants who received no votes in the first ballot, another ballot will be held to decide which applicant shall be ranked first in the ordered list, continuing to use the same procedure until one applicant obtains more than half the votes for the first place;

i) Once an applicant has been placed first on the ordered list, his or her name shall be removed from the voting and the process will be repeated to find the second-placed applicant, and so on, until all the applicants have been ordered.

VII - Composition of the Jury

President: Doctor Nuno Gonçalo Viana Pereira Ferreira Bicho, Vice-Rector of the University of Algarve, by delegation of powers from the Rector of the University of Algarve.

Vowels:

Doctor Catarina Isabel Neno Resende de Oliveira, Retired Full Professor of Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra

Doctor João António Nave Laranjinha, Full Professor of Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Coimbra

Doctor Carlos Jorge Bandeira Duarte, Full Professor of Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra

Doctor Ana Maria Freire de Sousa Sebastião, Full Professor of Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon

Doctor Miguel Castelo-Branco Craveiro Sousa, Full Professor of Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Beira Interior

Doctor Maria Leonor Quintais Cancela da Fonseca, Full Professor of Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University of Algarve

Doctor Isabel Maria Mestre Marques Palmeirim de Alfarra Esteves, Full Professor of Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University of Algarve

VIII – Access to the tender procedure

The tender process may be consulted at the University of Algarve’s Human Resources Department, on floor 0 of the Penha Library Building at the Penha Campus of the University of Algarve, in Faro, from 9.30am to noon and from 2.30p.m to 4.30 p.m., through previously scheduled appointment.

Where to apply

Website: https://www.ualg.pt/en/tender-procedures

Requirements

Research Field: Neurosciences » Other
Education Level: PhD or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications

Applicants must hold a doctoral degree for more than five years in a specialty considered appropriate for the disciplinary area in which the tender was opened
Applicants must hold the title of aggregate in a branch of knowledge that includes or is related to the disciplinary area of the tender

Specific Requirements

1. Admission requirements

a) Applicants must hold a doctoral degree for more than five years in a specialty considered appropriate for the disciplinary area in which the tender was opened,

i) Holders of a doctoral degree obtained outside Portugal must prove their degree is recognized in Portugal under the terms of Decree-Law No. 66/2018, of 16 August, and other applicable legislation;

b) Applicants must hold the title of aggregate in a branch of knowledge that includes or is related to the disciplinary area of the tender;

c) Applicants must be fluent in Portuguese;

d) Applicants must meet the general requirements for employment in public functions foreseen in the Law No. 35/2014, of 20 June, unless exempted by the ECDU.

Languages: PORTUGUESE
Level: Excellent

Research Field: Neurosciences » Other

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Benefits

The purpose of this tender is to fill the position, in the form of a non-fixed-term contract, as a government employee.

Eligibility criteria

Applicants will be excluded from the tender procedure if they:

a) Do not hold a doctoral degree for more than five years in a specialty considered appropriate for the disciplinary area in which the tender was opened, in accordance with Article 40 of ECDU;

b) Do not hold a recognized doctoral degree or proof that they requested its recognition, by the closing date of the tender, if their qualification is from a foreign institution;

c) Do not hold the title of aggregate in a branch of knowledge that includes or is related to the disciplinary area of the tender.

d) Do not submit the required documents stipulated in the Public Notice, within the designated deadline;

Selection process

Admission requirements in absolute merit and their assessment: