Assistant Professor in the scientific area of Geosciences, sub-area of Stratigraphy and Paleontology

Offer Description

Notice Ref. CD-CTTI-190-SGRH/2026 - Doctor Artur Manuel Soares da Silva, Full Professor and Rector at the University of Aveiro, hereby announces that for a period of thirty business days starting on the first business day immediately following the date on which this notice is published, by extract, in the “Diário da República”, an international public competition is opened, for the recruitment of 1 (one) position as Assistant Professor in the subject area of Geosciences, sub-area of Stratigraphy and Paleontology, under an employment contract for an indefinite period under the Portuguese Labour Code.

This competition, opened by order of 06 July 2026 of the Rector of the University of Aveiro, is governed by the provisions of the Regulation on the Regime of the University of Aveiro's own careers for teaching staff under private law and their recruitment (Regulation No. 384/2014 of 26 August), the Statute of the University Teaching Career, hereinafter referred to as ECDU, approved by Decree-Law No. 448/79 of 13 November, as amended by Decree-Law No. 205/2009 of 31 August, amended by Law No. 8/2010 of 13 May, and by all other applicable legislation and regulatory provisions.

1 – Admission requirements

1.1 — Applicants to the Competition must be holders of a PhD degree in the area and subarea related to it for which the competition is open.

1.2 — Applicants with qualifications obtained abroad must provide proof of recognition, equivalence or registration of a PhD degree, by a Portuguese higher education institution, in accordance with the applicable legislation. This formality must be fulfilled by the date of expiry of the application deadline.

2 — Formalizing the applications

2.1 — The application should include, among others, the following elements:

a) Application for competition addressed to the Rector of the University of Aveiro;

b) Detailed Curriculum Vitae containing all of the pertinent information for the assessment of the applicant considering the items of evaluation of point 4 of the present notice, recommending that it be organized according to the assessment criteria detailed in point 5;

c) Copies of papers selected by the applicant as being most representative of their curriculum vitae, no more than five;

d) A single document containing the justification for the papers selected under the preceding paragraph;

e) Report on the performance in scientific, educational and other activities considered relevant to the mission of the higher education institutions (the applicant must state the contributions made and considered relevant, focusing in particular on the papers selected as the most representative);

f) Scientific-pedagogical project: a document that serves as the basis for a future mission statement, which must include a proposal outlining the activities the candidate intends to carry out during the first five years of his/her activity as an Assistant Professor, explaining how can contribute to the progress and development of the subject area to it is open the competition in the scientific and pedagogical aspects of cooperation with the society;

g) Document that objectively highlights the number of citations of publications listed in the curriculum and explanation of the method used to count the citations with enough detail so that the jury is able to reproduce the procedure in accordance with section 5;

h) Any other elements that the applicant deems relevant.

2.2 — The application form must be fully completed, dated and signed; its use is mandatory and it is available at https://www.ua.pt/file/75608.

2.3 — The curriculum vitae should contain:

a) Full identification;

b) A document proving the applicant's position, group or subject, service time as staff member and the name of the University or Polytechnic Institution to which the applicant belongs, whenever applicable;

c) Specialization pertaining to the area in which the competition was opened;

d) Copies of qualification certificates with the respective classification or other document that is legally recognized for the same effect. Applicants holding a doctoral degree obtained abroad must provide evidence of recognition, equivalence or registration of the doctoral degree by a Portuguese higher education institution, in accordance with the applicable legislation;

e) Documents proving all of the elements mentioned in subsections b), c) and d) of point 2.3.

2.4 — The applicants from the University of Aveiro are not required to present proof of their individual process, referred to in paragraphs b), c) and d) of section 2.3.

2.5 — How to present application.

2.5.1 — The application may be presented in Portuguese or in English and handed in via email to the Human Resource Department of the University of Aveiro (sgrh-avct-recrutamento@ua.pt), by the deadline stipulated in this Notice. The Services will issue a message confirming electronic validation of the application.

2.5.2 — Instructions for the submission of applications, in digital format, are available in the area of Recruitment and Job offers section of Human Resources under “new teaching staff competitions and job offers” at https://www.ua.pt/pt/sgrh/pessoal-docente-novos-concursos-e-ofertas;

2.5.3 — When formalising the application, if a document is submitted that contains a commercial or industrial secret, or a secret relating to literary, artistic or scientific property, or that requires confidentiality, the applicant must identify the document as such, failing which the work in question may be freely accessed by any of the other applicants when consulting the file.

2.6 — The failure to comply with the deadline set, as well as the failure or the late entry of documents referred to in subsections a) to g) of No. 2.1, will result in the exclusion of the application. The exclusion decision shall be communicated to applicants by email for the purposes of the hearing of interested parties, pursuant to Articles 121 et seq. of the Administrative Procedure Code.

2.7 —The jury may, whenever it deems necessary, request that candidates submit additional documentation with regards to the curriculum vitae and set a deadline for the effect.

2.8 — The jury may, whenever it considers necessary, conduct public hearings of admitted applicants.

2.8.1 — At its first meeting, the jury shall decide on the need to hold public hearings of all candidates approved in absolute merit and are intended, exclusively, to better clarify what appears in the application under paragraph b) of n. º 4 of article 50.º of the ECDU.

2.8.2 — The public hearings will be held before the meeting of the jury aiming at the ordering of candidates admitted on absolute merit, with all candidates being informed, at least five days in advance, of the date and place of these public hearings.

2.8.3 — The public hearings referred to in the previous point may be held by teleconference;

2.8.4 — If the jury decides to conduct public hearings, as set out in section 2.8.2, applicants who fail to attend the hearings, without justification, will not be assessed and will be excluded.

3 – Competition Jury

3.1 — The Competition jury consists of the following:

President: Doctor Artur Manuel Soares da Silva, Rector of the University of Aveiro.

Jury members:

Doctor Ausenda de Cáceres Balbino, Full Professor at the Department of Geosciences, University of Évora;

Doctor Eduardo Anselmo Ferreira da Silva, Full Professor at the Department of Geosciences, University of Aveiro;

Doctor Luís Vítor da Fonseca Pinto Duarte, Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Departamento of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra;

Doctor Pedro Alexandre Henriques Dias Morgado Dinis, Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Departamento of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra;

Doctor Carla Alexandra de Figueiredo Patinha, Associate Professor at the Department of Geosciences, University of Aveiro.

3.2 — The deliberations are held by roll call voting requiring the absolute majority of votes of the members of the jury present at the meeting, not permitting abstentions.

4 — Admission and exclusion of applications

4.1 - Approval on absolute merit:

The admission of candidates is subject to approval on absolute merit, based on the merits of the overall curriculum candidates in the disciplinary area of Geosciences, sub-area of Stratigraphy and Paleontology, taking into account, cumulatively, and compliance with at least one of the following requirements:

4.1.1 - The applicant is the author or co-author of at least 10 articles in the subject area that the competition is open, indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded of the Web of Science from Clarivate Analytics where document type = article or document type = review, or in the SCI Verse Scopus with the same characteristics;

or

4.1.2 — Have obtained a total of at least 200 citations (excluding self-citations) to the scientific works produced in the disciplinary area for which the competition is open;

or

4.1.3 — Have a h-index, according to SCOPUS or Web of Science from Clarivate Analytics, of at least 10, relative to the scientific works produced in the disciplinary area for which the competition is open.

4.2 — Candidates must prove that they meet the above requirements (4.1.1 to 4.1.3), indicating the key to be used in the search for Web of Science from Clarivate Analytics or Scopus that proves it, or including in their curriculum vitae listing of the same database that confirms it.

4.3 — Methods and items for assessment:

4.3.1 — The method of selection is the assessment of the curriculum, which aims to assess the applicant’s scientific performance, pedagogic skills and performance in other activities relevant to the mission of higher education institutions.

4.3.2 — In the assessment of the curriculum the following items are mandatorily considered and pondered in accordance with the requirements of the functions corresponding to the position to be filled with the present competition:

a) The scientific performance of the applicant in the subject area of Geosciences, sub-area of Stratigraphy and Paleontology;

b) The pedagogic capacity of the applicant in the subject area of Geosciences, sub-area of Stratigraphy and Paleontology;

c) Other relevant activities;

d) Scientific-pedagogical project.

4.3.3 — In assessing the items referred to in 4.3.2 (a), (b) and (c), the extent of the curriculum of the candidates should be taken into account and the activity developed in the last five 5 (five) years, which will account 80% of the assessment for each of these components.

4.3.4 — In assessing the items referred to in 4.3.2 (a), (b) and (d), particular weight shall also be given to activity in the fields of Sedimentology, applying a weighting factor of 2.

5 — Assessment criteria

In applying the items of assessment mentioned in the previous point the following criteria are assessed, to which the indicated weighting factors are attributed.

5.1 — Criteria for assessing Scientific Performance

5.1.1 — Scientific production. Quality and quantity of the scientific production in the area of Geosciences, sub-area of Stratigraphy and Paleontology (books, chapter books, journal articles, and congress communications), expressed by the number and type of publications, and by the recognition given to it by the scientific community (translated into the quality of Publication and in the references made to them by other authors).

5.1.2 — Participation in scientific projects. Quality and quantity of scientific projects in which the applicant has participated in the area of Geosciences, funded on a competitive basis by public funds, through national or international agencies or financed by companies. In the evaluation of the quality must take into account the obtained financing, the degree of demand of the competition, the evaluations of the projects carried out and the prototypes made, in particular if they have been sequenced in products or services.

5.1.3 — Intervention in scientific community. Assessing the capacity to intervene in scientific community, particularly by organizing events, being (co-)editor of scientific journals, participation in the assessment of projects and articles, being invited to give speeches, as well as participation in academic juries and consulting activities and the recognition obtained through the awarding of prizes or other distinctions and their impact.

5.1.4 — Constitution of research teams and supervision of doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows.

5.2 — Criteria for evaluation of Pedagogical Capacity:

5.2.1 — Coordination of pedagogic projects. Conception, development and direction of study programs or curricular units, proven by the institutions where the pedagogical activity took place.

5.2.2 — Teaching activity. Total number of teaching hours and quality of teaching activity performed by the applicant, proven by the institutions where the pedagogical activity took place, using, whenever possible, objective methods based on extensive collections of opinion (educational surveys).

5.2.3 — Orientation of students in final bachelor's and master's dissertations.

5.3 — Criteria for evaluation of the Other Relevant Activities:

5.3.1 — Training and/or professional activities (courses, workshops, seminars), the participation in scientific, pedagogical or institutional management activities and the participation in outreach activities, transfer of knowledge or technology, contributing to the Mission of the University shall be considered.

5.3.2. — Analysis of the scientific performance report, educational and other activities considered relevant to the Mission of higher education institutions.

5.4 — Criteria for evaluation of the Scientific-pedagogical project:

5.4.1 — Analysis of scientific-pedagogical project: Consider the clarity and quality of the exhibition, the actuality of the content and other complementary elements considered, with special attention to the potential contribution to the educational and scientific development of the area to which is opened the contest.

5.5 — The weight of each aspect and criteria are indicated in the following table:

Table – Weights associated with the categories and assessment criteria.

6 — Assessment and selection:

6.1 — After the admission of the application to the competition, the jury will begin the processes of analysis of the applications, taking into account the items and criteria set out in this notice.

6.2 — In the first meeting, which may take place by teleconference as decided by the jury president, and after examination and admission of applications, the jury begins to decide which applicants pass to the next phase on absolute merit. To this purpose, each member of the jury proposes, which applications do not meet the requirements at both a scientific and pedagogic level as established by the Notice for the present competition.

After all jury members have submitted their proposals to the President of the jury, the jury votes on each application, for which rejection is proposed, and no abstentions are allowed; an application is rejected on absolute merit if obtains a majority of votes favourable to the rejection among the members of the jury present at the meeting. Each application will be voted only once. Other proposals, which eliminate the same application will not be voted on. The final decision on each proposal, as well as the number of votes collected by each of them, and their bases, are an integral part of the minutes.

6.3 — In the case of an application not receiving absolute merit approval, the jury proceeds to holding a hearing the excluded applicants, who may contest within 10 days.

6.4 — The jury then assesses those candidates approved according to absolute merit, considering the criteria and parameters of assessment as well as the ranking factors in this notice.

6.4.1 — Each member of the jury applies a value, on the scale of 0-100, for each criteria or aspects regarding each applicant.

6.4.2 — The final result is expressed on a numerical scale of 0-100 and it is calculated by weighing each criteria with the corresponding weight which provides a score to each aspect. Each aspect score has its own weight which is used to calculate the final score. Expressed as a formula, the final result (FR) is calculated as follows:

FR=P1*(C11*P11+C12*P12+C13*P13+C14*P14)+P2*(C21*P21+C22*P22+C23*P23)+P3*(C31*P31+C32*P32)+P4*(C41*P41)

7 — Voting methodology and ordering:

7.1 — The ordering of candidates should be founded on the assessment made based on strands and criteria of assessment and corresponding weighing factors listed in this notice.

7.2 — Before voting, each member of the jury presents a written document, that will be attached to the minutes of the meeting, with the order of the applicants, duly founded, taking into consideration the previous paragraph.

7.3 — On the various votes, each jury member should respect the order presented, no abstentions allowed.

7.4 — The jury will use the following voting method in order to obtain an absolute majority in the final ranking of candidates:

The first vote is intended to determine the applicant to be put in first place. If an applicant receives more than half the votes of the members of the jury present at the meeting, that candidate is ranked first. If the applicant in first place is not determined, the voting will be repeated, but only among the candidates who received votes to be considered for first place after removal of the applicant least voted in the first round. If there is more than one applicant in the position of least voted there will be another vote with only these applicants in order to determine who is to be eliminated. For this vote, the jury members vote for the applicant who has the lowest ranking, the applicant with the most votes is eliminated. If at this point there continues to be a tie among two or more applicants, the president of the jury will decide which of them is to be eliminated. Once this elimination is made, the jury returns to the first vote, but only with the remaining candidates. The process is repeated until one applicant receives more than half the votes for first place. The process is repeated for second place and so on until an ordered list of all candidates is complete.

8 — Participation of interested parties and the decision:

8.1 — The applicants are notified of the final ranking in order to start the hearings of the interested parties conducted under the terms of the Administrative Procedure Code.

8.2 — Once the interested parties have had their hearings, the jury assesses their allegations and approves the final ranking of the applicants.

9 — Deadline for final decision:

9.1 — Notwithstanding the following paragraph, the deadline for delivering the jury’s final decision cannot surpass ninety consecutive days, starting from the deadline for submission of applications.

9.2 — The deadline mentioned in the previous subsection may be extended when there is a high number of applicants and or when the particular complexity of the Competition justifies it.

10 — The teacher will be hired for an indefinite period with an experimental period of five years to carry out the functions described in the letter of mission and inherent in the category of Assistant Professor.

11 — The present competition is exclusively destined to fill the position indicated and can be finished until the homologation of the final ranking list of candidates and expiring with the respective occupation of the job on offer.

12 — Publication of Competition notice

In addition to publication in the 2nd Series of the Diário da República, this notice shall also be published in:

a) The public employment exchange;

b) The website of the Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., in Portuguese and English;

c) The website of the University of Aveiro, in Portuguese and English;

d) A national newspaper.

13 — In compliance with paragraph h) of Article 9 of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, the Government, as the employing entity, actively promotes a policy of equal opportunities between men and women in access to employment and professional advancement, scrupulously taking measures to avoid any form of discrimination.

06 July, 2026 — The Rector, Doctor Artur Manuel Soares da Silva.

Where to apply

E-mail: sgrh-avct-recrutamento@ua.pt

Requirements

• Research Field: Other
• Education Level: PhD or equivalent

Work Location(s)

• Number of offers available: 1
• Company/Institute: DGEO / University of Aveiro
• Country: Portugal

Contact

• City: Aveiro
• Website: https://www.ua.pt
• Street: Campus Universitário de Santiago