Principal Researcher - Cell and Molecular Biology | subarea of Protein Synthesis Coimbra

Principal Researcher - Cell and Molecular Biology | subarea of Protein Synthesis
Coimbra
Coimbra, Coimbra District, Portugal

Organisation/Company: Universidade de Coimbra

Department: SGRH - DRGC

Research Field: Other

Researcher Profile: Established Researcher (R3)

Positions: Ph
D Positions

Country: Portugal

Application Deadline: 8 May 2025 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon)

Type of Contract: Permanent

Job Status: Full-time

Hours Per Week: 35

Offer Starting Date: 25 Mar 2025

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Next
Generation
EU

Reference Number: IT074-25-14995

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

PUBLIC NOTICE

I publicly announce that, by the Rector of the University of Coimbra, Professor Amílcar Falcão, order of 28/01/2025, an international tender to fulfill one vacancy for the position of Principal Researcher in the scientific area Cell and Molecular Biology | subarea of Protein Synthesis is hereby open for 30 working days following the publication of the present notice in Diário da República [Official Journal of the Portuguese Republic]. The stated position will be held under a public service employment contract of unspecified duration at the MIA - Portugal (Multidisciplinary Institute of Ageing - Portugal) of the University of Coimbra.

I – Reference and Place of Work:

I. 1. Public tender reference: IT074-25-14995

I. 2. Place of Work: MIA - Portugal (Multidisciplinary Institute of Ageing - Portugal) of the University of Coimbra

I. 3. Salary: 3. 950, 17€ , corresponds to the rank and index referred in the table in Annex 3 to Decree-Law nr. 408/89, of November 18, in its current version, without prejudice to legally imposed restrictions.

II - Functional content:

The functional content is that corresponding to the stipulations in article 5 paragraph 2 and 4 of the ECIC, and article 7, paragraph 2 and 4 of the RRCPSPICUC.

III – Admission Requirements:

III. 1. General requirements: Applicants shall be at least 18 years of age or older, not be inhibited to holding a job in the public sector nor forbidden to perform the intended position; applicants shall also be in good health and possess the psychological profile required for the job and shall meet the compulsory vaccination requirements.

III. 2. At the time of application, applicants shall fulfill the special admission requirements set forth in article 11, paragraph 1 of the ECIC and article 25, paragraph 2 of the RRCPSPICUC:

Principal researchers from another institution in the scientific area of the call or in a scientific area considered by the scientific council as being related to that for which the tender is open or those who, although from a different area, have a relevant scientific curriculum in these areas, as well as.

III. 3. If the candidate's Ph
D is not in the scientific area(s) of the procedure, nor in the area(s) previously defined as related (if any), the candidate is admitted if he/she presents proof that requested from the Scientific Council of the MIA - Portugal (Multidisciplinary Institute of Ageing - Portugal) of the University of Coimbra a document certifying:

- That the scientific area in which he/she has an academic qualification is also considered as a similar area to the one put up for tender procedure; or

- That the scientific area in which the candidate provided services is considered to be a related area of the one put up for tender procedure.

IV – Application:

IV. 1. Submission: candidates must access and register on the electronic platform apply. uc. pt, to submit the application, selecting the procedure to which they intend to apply.

The documents included in the application are exclusively in digital portable document format (pdf), with the exception of the documents referred in IV. 2. 4. and IV. 2. 6. , which can be delivered in other digital formats.

The application submission is carried out by completing the sections available on the Apply UC electronic platform, under “My application”.

If the Scientific project or any of the works/papers submitted contains classified information, reveal trade or industrial secrets or literary, artistic or scientific property secrets, candidates must select that option, available on the platform for each document; otherwise, those works/papers can be freely accessed by any of the other applicants when consulting the file.

Candidates can highlight in their CV periods of suspension of professional activity for socially protected reasons, namely, for reasons of parental leave, prolonged serious illness, and other legally protected situations of unavailability for work, always attaching supporting documents, and the jury must ensure that their evaluative judgment is not influenced by these pauses.

IV. 2 Mandatory documents to be delivered:

IV. 2. 1. Curriculum Vitae duly dated and signed

The Curriculum Vitae shall include a foreword with the candidate’s full professional background in higher education institutions, when applicable, with reference to category, field or scientific area, identification of the higher education institution in which the candidate has exercised functions, type and length of the contract, specifying the position and type of contract held at the time of application. The foreword shall also include a summary clearly demonstrating that the candidate specialises in the scientific area and subarea for which this tender is open.

The candidate’s Curriculum Vitae shall be structured in order to separately respond to the different items listed below in section V and respective subparagraph.

With regard to the documents mentioned in point IV. 2. 4, as an alternative to submitting a copy, the CV may also indicate the unique digital identifier of the publications, which must be of the handle type ( e. g. DOI) or URN ( e. g. ISBN).

IV. 2. 2. Copy of qualification certificates. Opponents selected for the position(s) to be filled who hold a foreign doctoral degree must present the recognition or registration (as applicable) of their degree at the time of contract signing, in accordance with Decree-Law No. 66/2018, dated August 16th, under penalty of exclusion. If the recognition is requested at the University of Coimbra, it will cover the costs of the recognition or registry for the candidate(s) who will be hired, and the candidate(s) are exempt from paying the fee until the final ranking. You can find more information at the following link: https://www.uc. pt/academicos/graus/reconhecimentos

The candidates who hold a public service employment contract with the University of Coimbra may be exempt from the qualification certificates submission. To this end, they must select this option on the platform, stating that they are already in their individual process.

IV. 2. 3. Separate copy of the 5 of the candidate's most relevant works/papers that have contributed to the development of the scientific subarea for which this tender is open, and justified, in a separate document, the contribution to the work and the reasons for this choice.

IV. 2. 4. Copy of all works/papers mentioned in the Curriculum Vitae and indication on the CV of the unique digital identifier of the publications, which must be of the handle type (e. g. DOI) or URN (e. g. ISBN).

IV. 2. 5. Scientific project for the next 5 years, with a limit of 5 pages, related to the research lines in the scientific subarea for which this tender is open to which the candidate proposes to dedicate himself in the UC, obeying the following requirements: Presentation of the main problems to which the candidate intends to dedicate the future research, contextualizing them in the current state of the art in the biology of ageing; Systematic and succinct description of the research strategies that the candidate proposes to adopt in order to develop his research and solve or contribute to the resolution of the problems he has mentioned; Explanation of the reasons and motivations for his choices in the biology of ageing.

IV. 2. 6. Any other information considered relevant by the candidate.

IV. 2. 7. Document mentioned in point III. 3. , if applicable.

IV. 2. 8. Report of the activities developed by the candidates.

IV. 2. 9. Copy of the certificate of approval in public examinations of qualification or academic title – Agregação - when applicable under the terms of point III. 2

IV. 3. All application documents above indicated in IV. 2 shall be submitted in Portuguese or English, exception made to those mentioned in IV. 1. 2. 4 and IV. 2. 6, which may be submitted in a different language. If the original documents mentioned under IV. 2. 2 and IV. 2. 3 are written in a language other than Portuguese or English, candidates are required to include a version in one of those languages. Exception is made to Diplomas, when written in Latin, in which case no translation is required.

IV. 4. Applicants, who are
- native speakers of either Portuguese or English, shall attest their proficiency at level C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in, at least, one of those languages.

IV. 5. Applications that do not comply with the instructions or that fail to meet the tender’s formal requirements, pursuant to the applicable laws and to this Public Notice, shall not be accepted. In the same way, if the required documents or papers are submitted outside the established timeframe, the application shall not be accepted.

IV. 6. The present tender ceases with the occupation of the position, or, when the position cannot be totally occupied, due to the inexistence or insufficiency of candidates to continue this tender.

V – Selection methods and criteria:

V. 1. The selection methods to be used are approval in absolute merit and evaluation of the candidates' scientific and curricular background.

V. 2. Evaluation of Absolute Merit

V. 2. 1. Approval on Absolute Merit will be given to candidates who hold a curriculum vitae that the jury considers adequate for the position to be filled, namely the merit of their scientific and technical work, as well as their professional experience and training, compatible with the category and scientific area and subarea for which the tender is open, always taking into account, for this evaluation, the following minimum criteria:

i. Have at least 3 scientific articles in the subarea for which the competition is open.

V. 2. 2. The Jury shall decide on admission or exclusion on absolute merit by
- call vote, based on compliance or
- compliance with the requirements set out in paragraph V. 2. 1, and by an absolute majority of votes in favour from among the members present at the meeting.

V. 3. Assessment of the scientific and curricular background

For the assessment of the scientific and curricular background of the candidates, the following evaluation criteria should be considered: the quality of the candidates' scientific and technical work, professional experience, professional training, contribution to scientific guidance activities, participation in teaching activities and management bodies, community service and the quality of the scientific project, according to the following weighting.

V. 3. 1. Quality of the scientific and technical work, with a weighting of 50%, considering the candidate's contribution to the production of innovative and disruptive knowledge in the area and subarea for which the competition is open, as well as the ability to have, in the future, a very relevant scientific production at the University of Coimbra, namely through the publication as senior/corresponding author of original articles in international scientific journals, considering the recognition of the excellence of such journals by peers, the scientific/technological level and innovation, international collaboration, the importance of the contributions to the advancement of the current state of knowledge, the importance of the works that have been selected by the candidate as most representative and the scientific project presented; the candidate's potential and previous experience in participating in and coordinating projects subject to competition on a competitive basis, as well as in research teams, in the area and subarea for which the competition is open, namely taking into account the technological level, the interdisciplinary dimension and laboratories, of an experimental and/or computational nature to support research, and in national and international research networks, scientific dissemination initiatives, namely through the organization of international scientific events, in the area and subarea for which the competition is open; the recognition by the international scientific community of the results obtained by candidates in the area and subarea for which the tender is open taking into account, in particular, awards from scientific societies, editorial activities in scientific journals, participation in editorial boards of scientific journals, coordination and participation in programme committees of scientific events, guest lectures at scientific meetings or other institutions, membership of scientific societies with competitive admission and other similar distinctions.

V. 3. 2. Professional experience and training, with a weighting of 5%, considering the level and adequacy of academic degrees and diplomas or professional qualifications, in the subarea for which the tender is open; the professional experience of the candidate to carry out duties as a Principal Researcher in the subarea for which the tender is open; the supervision, development or participation in training programmes and/or training sessions within the scope of the subarea for which the tender is open.

V. 3. 3. Involvement in scientific advisory activities and participation in teaching activities, with a weighting of 5%, considering activities of
- up and advising of research work developed by scholarship holders, research interns and research assistants, participating in their training, as well as of supervision of students' theses, namely undergraduate, postgraduate, master's and doctoral students; collaboration in professional training sessions, namely participation and coordination of training sessions aimed at the public and private sectors, according to their characteristics and the results achieved; the publications, computer applications and experimental prototypes of a pedagogical nature that the candidate has produced or participated in, and their impact on the national and international community should be considered; the courses units that the candidate has coordinated and taught, considering the diversity, the pedagogical practice and the students' background.

V. 3. 4. Participation in management bodies, with a weighting of 5%, considering holding positions or duties in bodies of Higher Education Institutions, and in Research Units, taking into consideration their nature, duration and responsibility; holding temporary positions and tasks, namely editorial activities in international journals, evaluation in scientific programmes, juries of academic tests, juries of competitions and others that have been assigned by the competent management bodies; performance in other positions, namely those legally considered equivalent to the effective exercise of researching activities and those carried out in national and international scientific organizations.

V. 3. 5. Community service, with a weighting of 5%, considering the provi