Postdoc Positions

Reference Number: TRB/2026/00054 – DiME

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

Offer Description

Note: This is a free translation of the original announcement written in Portuguese, provided only for convenience of non-Portuguese speakers. Only the Portuguese version has official value.

By order issued by the Director General of the Telecommunications Institute on October 19, 2026, it was approved to open an international call to select one candidate researcher in the scientific scope of the project DiME, under the scope of a term contract, with a termination date undetermined, overseen by Portuguese Labour Code. Job description:

• Design, develop, and validate advanced digital solutions to transform urban mobility into an intelligent, integrated, and sustainable system. It addresses key challenges such as decarbonization, efficiency, and coordination through a digitally native, interoperable approach that combines artificial intelligence, advanced connectivity, and autonomous systems within a scalable platform that enables real-time coordination of vehicles, users, and infrastructure.
• Contributing to the research, integration, and demonstration activities with the project partners, ensuring planned deliverables and progress targets, conducting the associated tasks and activities, and communicating with the project evaluation and monitoring bodies;
• Representing the Telecommunications Institute and conducting management activities within the project for overall assurance of the project execution as a whole;
• Dissemination of results through the publication of scientific papers in conferences and journals, as well as participation in preparing events to present and demonstrate the project to the public.

The approximate duration of the contract will be 35 months, depending on the completion of the tasks identified above, and this period is not necessarily linked to the duration of the specific project.

Applicable Legislation:

• Decree-Law no. 57/2016 of 29th of August, which approved the hiring of doctorate to stimulate scientific and technological employment for all areas of knowledge (RJEC), amended by the Law 57/2017 dated 19th of July, and regulated by Regulatory Decree nr 11-A/2017, dated 29th December
• Labour Code approved by Law no. 7/2009 of 12 February, under its current Reading.

The workplace shall be at Instituto de Telecomunicações, Polo de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro.

Formalisation of applications:

1. Applications are formalised by sending a Motivation Letter, addressed to the Board of Instituto de Telecomunicações, including this announcement identification, full name, parents’ names, ID card, or Citizen Card number and date, or civil identification number, taxpayer ID number, date and place of birth, marital status, occupation, residence and contact address, including email address and telephone
2. Applications shall include all supported documents encompassed by section 6 and 7 for tender admission, namely:
   1. Copy of certificate or diploma; *
   2. Doctorate thesis;
   3. Curriculum vitae detailed and structured pursuant to sections 10 and 12.

* The administrative verification of the recognition of the degrees obtained abroad will be fulfilled for the purpose of contracting, in case of approval of the candidatures. Further information at https://www.dges.gov.pt/en/pagina/degree-and-diploma-recognition

Where to apply

Website: https://www.it.pt/

Requirements

Research Field: Engineering » Other

Education Level: PhD or equivalent

Specific Requirements

Any national, foreign and stateless candidate(s) holding a doctorate degree in Informatics, Electrotechnical and Telecommunications Engineering or other related scientific area and a suitable scientific and professional curriculum may submit an application. In case the degree has been awarded by a foreign higher education institution, the degree must comply with the provisions of Decree-Law no. 341/2007 of 12th of October, and all formalities established therein must be fulfilled, by the selected candidate, until the date of signature of the contract.

Additional Information

Benefits

Basic monthly salary: the basic monthly salary corresponds to level PR2 of the TRU (€ 3,851.67).

Instituto de Telecomunicações informs that it offers a wide range of social benefits to its employees, aiming to promote well-being, quality of life, and support in professional performance. More information will be provided during the onboarding process or can be obtained from the Human Resources department.

Eligibility criteria

General tender admission requirements include those specified in the previous section and compliance with the productivity criteria in force at Instituto de Telecomunicações (https://www.it.pt/docs/Politica_de_Qualidade_2.pdf) that must be verifiable from the candidate’s curriculum vitae. Additionally, the applicant’s admission to the contest of this hiring procedure must fulfil the requirements pointed out in clauses 1 and 2:

1. Have proven experience in developing systems to support cooperative, connected, and autonomous mobility (CCAM)
2. have published more than 10 scientific articles (Document type = Article or Document type = Review) indexed in Scopus

Selection process

The evaluation of the scientific and curricular career has two components, namely:

The assessment of the curriculum vitae and other documentation presented, giving particular relevance to the contributions considered most relevant by the candidate in the last 5 years. This component of the evaluation is expressed in a scale of 0 to 20, and candidates with less than 14 are automatically considered excluded from the call. This component of the evaluation takes into consideration:

• Scientific production of the candidate, namely articles in peer-reviewed journals (referred in Journal Citation Report do ISI Web of Knowledge) and proceedings of international conferences. The jury will assess the scientific production taking into consideration the quality of the submitted items and their relevance to the field of the present call;
• Previous experience, knowledge of the themes, the scientific and technical expertise to carry out the functions described in point 1.

Candidates with a classification of 14 or higher in the previous component shall make a public live presentation of the results of their scientific activity in activities similar to the tasks mentioned in point 1 of this announcement, and future perspectives. Following, members of the evaluation panel shall stimulate an open debate with the candidate. The evaluation of the presentation is expressed in a scale of 0 to 20 and should take into account the scientific knowledge and the capacity of communication demonstrated by the candidate, as well as the answers to the questions placed by the members of the evaluation panel. Candidates with less than 14 in this component are automatically considered excluded from the call.

Each panel member score is obtained attributing a weighing factor of 90% to the classification given to the evaluation of the curriculum vitae and other documentation and a weighing factor of 10% to the classification given to the interview.

The final classification of each candidate is obtained by the sum of the scores of the panel members divided by the number of the members of the panel. In the event of a tie, the chairperson of the panel will have the casting vote.

According to article 13 of RJEC, the selection panel shall be: Prof. Dr. Joaquim Ferreira (President), Prof. Dr. Paulo Bartolomeu and Prof. Dr. João Almeida, and by Prof. Dr. Diogo Gomes as substitute member.

The list of admitted and excluded candidates and the final ranking list will be sent to all candidates by email.

Additional comments

Candidates shall submit their application files and supporting documentation, in a digital form, in the IT portal, https://www.it.pt/Positions/PostDoc/841?page=1

This competition is open from October 20, 2026, to November 17, 2026.

Please refer to the original announcement.

Website for additional job details: https://www.it.pt/Positions/PostDoc/841?page=1

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available: 1

Company/Institute: Instituto de Telecomunicações - Polo Aveiro

Country: Portugal

State/Province: Aveiro

City: Aveiro

Postal Code: 3810-193

Street: Campus Universitário de Santiago

Contact

State/Province: Aveiro

City: Aveiro

Website: https://it.pt/

Street: Campus Universitário

Postal Code: 3810-193

E-Mail: giiartioli@av.it.pt