PUBLIC NOTICE
It should be known that, before this Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon (hereinafter referred to as IST), and within 30 working days following the day after the publication of this notice in ?Diário da República? (the Portuguese Official Gazette), an international documental recruitment competition is open, in the form of an employment contract in public functions, for one position of Full Professor in the disciplinary field of Mathematical-Physics from the Department of Mathematics of Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, under articles 37.º to 51.º, 61.º and 62.º-A of the Estatuto da Carreira Docente Universitária (University Teaching Career Statute), republished by Decree-Law n.º 205/2009, from August 31st (hereinafter referred to as ECDU), and other applicable law, namely the Regulamento Geral de Concursos para Recrutamento de Professores Catedráticos, Associados e Auxiliares da Universidade de Lisboa (General Regulations for the Recruitment of Full Professors, Associate Professors and Assistant Professors of the University of Lisbon), approved by the Rector Order of February 16th 2015, published in the 2nd Series of Diário da República n.º 45 of March 5th 2015 (hereinafter referred to as Regulations).
The joint order n.º 373/2000, of March 31st, of the Minister of State Reform and Public Administration and the Minister for Equality made compulsory the inclusion of the following reference in all civil service recruitment procedure notices:
?In compliance with paragraph h) of article 9 of the Constitution, the Public Administration, as the employing entity, actively promotes a policy of equality of opportunities between men and women in access to employment and professional development, scrupulously providing for the prevention of any type of discrimination.? In this sense, the terms 'candidate', 'recruited', 'teacher' and the like are not used in this notice to refer to the gender of people
Likewise, no candidate may be privileged, benefited, harmed or deprived of any right or exempt from any duty on the grounds, in particular, of descent, age, sexual orientation, marital status, family situation, economic status, education, origin or social status, genetic heritage, reduced working capacity, disability, chronic illness, nationality, ethnic origin or race, territory of origin, language, religion, political or ideological beliefs and trade union membership.
In compliance with articles 37.º to 51.º from ECDU and other applicable law, and with article 8.º from the General Regulations for the Recruitment of Full Professors, Associate Professors and Assistant Professors of the University of Lisbon, the following terms and conditions must hold:
I ? Rector?s Order Authorization
This recruitment procedure follows the University of Lisbon Rector?s Order, dated November 5th 2020, issued after the confirmation of budget provision and after the confirmation that the position, for which this recruitment procedure is open, is foreseen in the IST staff list, in which the functions to be carried out are defined as teaching and research activities that constitute the set of duties of a Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics.
II ? Place of work
Instituto Superior Técnico
Campus da Alameda, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
and
Campus Taguspark
Av. Prof. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva
2744-016 Porto Salvo, Portugal
III ? Admission requirements and grounds of exclusion
III.1 - In compliance with article 40.º of ECDU, applicants to this recruitment procedure must hold a PhD degree for more than five years, as well as the title of ?Agregado?, by the deadline of the application.
III.2 ? Chapter VI of the Regulations shall be applied in respect to the confirmation and fulfilment of the admission requirements and ground of exclusion of the candidates.
III.3 ? The holders of a doctorate degree awarded by a foreign institution must demonstrate that the degree has been recognised according to the Decree-Law n.º 66/2018, from August 16th.
III.4 ? The recognition of the doctorate degree, referred above, must be obtained before the deadline to sign the contract, in case the candidate ranked in an eligible place has been awarded the doctorate degree by a foreign institution.
IV ? Absolute merit approval requirements
IV.1 ? Article 10.º from Chapter III of the Regulations shall be applied in respect to the absolute merit approval of the candidates.
IV.2 - The Jury will deliberate on the approval or rejection on absolute merit of a given candidate, through justified nominal voting, abstentions not being allowed.
IV.3 - It is considered approved in absolute merit the candidate that receives a favorable vote from more than half of the voting members of the Jury.
IV.4 ? A vote against the approval in absolute merit of a candidate must be based on one or more of the following circumstances:
a) the knowledge domain and/or field of the PhD which the candidate holds and/or the title of ?Agregado? that the candidate holds, is not academically adequate for the, minimally adequate, performance of the teaching duties in the disciplinary field related to this recruitment procedure and the candidate?s academic background fail to compensate for this fact; and/or
b) the relevance, quality, and impact of the curriculum vitae of the candidate, and the academic contributions and of highest impact selected by the candidate, do not demonstrate the minimum standards, to perform, in a minimally adequate way, the duties of a Full Professor in the disciplinary field related to this recruitment; and/or
c) the list of publications presented in the document with the most relevant academic contributions over the last 10 (ten) years mentioned in paragraph b) of IX.2 of this notice, which are considered by the candidate as the most representatives to the development and evolution of the disciplinary field of this competition, are not sufficient to demonstrate that the candidate has the necessary capabilities to have a minimally adequate performance on the execution of the regular duties of a Full Professor in the disciplinary field of this competition; and/or
d) the candidate does not have, over the last 10 (ten) years, at least 12 (twelve) publications in the disciplinary field of this competition, indexed in one of the data bases Clarivate Analytics Web of Knowledge, MathSciNet or Zentralblatt Math; and/or
e) the scientific and pedagogical project, requested in IX.2.c) and specified in V.4.e), elaborated by the candidate is clearly insufficient, presenting insufficiencies or severe incorrectness enough to illustrate the lack of capacities of the candidate to fulfil the set of functional duties required by a Full Professor in the disciplinary field of this recruitment procedure, or not being supported by previous work from the candidate.
V ? Evaluation parameters and relative merit ranking, respective percentage and final valuation
V.1 - This recruitment procedure aims to evaluate the candidates? abilities and performance concerning the different aspects that constitute the set of duties to be performed, in accordance with article 4.º of ECDU, as a result of their recruitment in case they are hired. According to article 4.º of ECDU, faculty members are required to:
a) Carry out scientific research, cultural creation or technology development activities; b) Carry out the teaching duties assigned to them and guide and supervise the students;c) Participate in activities related to university representation, scientific disclosure and economic and social knowledge transfer;
d) Participate in management activities within the university; e) Participate in other duties assigned by the competent bodies in the scope of the regular activities of a faculty member.V.2 - The selection will be made through the curriculum?s evaluation method, which, according to the faculty members? general duties established in article 4.º of ECDU, is based on the following items:
a) Teaching; b) Research; c) Activities related to university representation, scientific disclosure and economic and social knowledge transfer, herewith defined as Knowledge Transfer; d) Management activities within the university; e) Scientific and pedagogical project.V.3 - The candidates? curriculum evaluation in each of the aforementioned areas must take into consideration the disciplinary field related to this recruitment procedure.
V.4 - The parameters to be considered in the candidates? curriculum evaluation in each of the areas defined in V.2, and the respective percentage for the final classification, are the following where special emphasis is given to the relevance, quality and impact of the curriculum vitae of the candidate, to the most relevant and with the highest impact academic contributions as selected by the candidate and identified in the document IX.2.b, in the last 10 years:
a) Teaching (20%):
i) Pedagogical contents: parameter related to publications, computer applications and pedagogically relevant experimental prototypes developed, solely or in cooperation, by the candidate, considering their nature and impact on the national and international communities;
ii) Teaching activity: parameter related to the curricular units coordinated or taught by the candidate, considering their diversity, pedagogical practice and the student range;
iii) Innovation: parameter related to the candidate?s ability to promote pedagogical activities, such as:
iv) Student guidance and supervision: parameter related to the supervision of PhD, MSc and Undergraduate students? works considering the number, quality, scope and scientific/technological impact of the resulting publications, theses, dissertations and final-year projects, specially the prizes awarded to these works and their international relevance;
v) Non-academic Professional experience: parameter related to the role of relevant work developed outside of the academic environment in the scope of the disciplinary field of this competition.
b) Research (50%):
i) Scientific publications: parameter related to books, book chapters, papers published in scientific journals and in international conferences proceedings, of which the candidate is author or co-author, considering:
ii) Coordination of and participation in scientific projects: parameter related to the participation in and coordination of scientific projects, subject to competitive tendering, by the candidate, considering:
iii) Creation and reinforcement of laboratory infrastructures: parameter related to the participation in and coordination of activities by the candidate that resulted in the creation or reinforcement of experimental and/or computational laboratory infrastructures used for research purposes;
iv) Scientific activity development: parameter related to the demonstrated ability of the candidate to coordinate and lead research teams;
v) Recognition by the international scientific community: parameter related to:
c) Knowledge Transfer (5%):
i) Industrial Property: parameter related to the authorship and co-authorship of patents, models and industrial designs, considering their nature, territorial scope, technological level and the results achieved;
ii) Legislation and technical norms: parameter related to the participation in and elaboration of bills and norms considering their nature, territorial scope and technological level;
iii) Scientific and technological disclosure publications: parameter related to papers published in national journals and conferences and other scientific and technological disclosure publications, according to their professional and social impact;
iv) Rendering of services and consulting: parameter related to the participation in activities involving the business environment and the public sector, considering the type of participation, the dimension, the diversity, the technological intensity and the innovation;
v) Conception, planning and production of engineering, management or architectural projects: parameter related to the value of professional experiences relevant to the university?s activities;
vi) Services provided to the scientific community and to society: parameter related to the participation in and coordination of activities involving scientific and technological disclosure considering their nature and the results achieved, namely aimed at:
vii) Professional training programmes: parameter related to the participation in and coordination of technological training programmes aimed at businesses and the public sector, considering their nature, technological intensity and the results achieved.
d) Management activities within the university (15%):
i) Participation in universities or schools bodies: parameter related to the nature and the responsibility resulting from the duties;
ii) Participation in the management of units or as course coordinator: parameter related to the duties, the scope of action and the results achieved by the candidate in the performance of management duties within departments and research units, coordination of courses, scientific areas or sections;
iii) Temporary duties and tasks: parameter related to the nature, the scope of action and the results achieved by the candidate within their participation in editorial activities for international journals, in the evaluation of scientific programmes, in academic degrees? examination boards, in competition juries, and their performance of temporary duties and tasks assigned by the competent bodies, among others;
iv) Other duties: parameter related to the performance of duties defined in article 73 of the University Teaching Career Statutes (ECDU) and other duties within national and international scientific organizations.
e) Scientific and Pedagogical Project (10%): parameter that evaluates a scientific and pedagogical project proposed by the candidate on the disciplinary field related to this recruitment procedure, with the objective of promoting the teaching and research activities which, within the disciplinary field of this recruitment procedure, are associated with the Department of Mathematics and with research units of IST or associated with the Institute, with special emphasis on Mathematical Relativity and Geometric Analysis.V.5 ? Once finally identified the candidates approved in absolute merit, based on the previous conditions expressed in IV, the Jury will proceed to the final valuation and ranking of the candidates, following the procedure established in article 20.º of the Regulations, where the preferential parameters described in VI can be used as qualification criteria for each of the parameters described in V.4 when establishing the list mentioned in no. 3 of article 20.º of the Regulations.
VI ? Preferential parameters
It is a preferential parameter that the candidate has a curriculum vitae that is adequate to the disciplinary field of this competition, where special emphasis is given to the candidates' scientific production over the last 10 (ten) years.
It is a preferential parameter the contribution given to the development and evolution of the disciplinary field of this competition. It is a preferential parameter the scientific production of the candidate in Mathematical Relativity and Geometric Analysis.
VII - Public hearings
VII.1 - At the first meeting the Jury will deliberate about the need for a public hearing of the candidates that have been approved in absolute merit, with the exclusive aim of clarifying the information contained in the candidates? curriculum vitae, according to paragraph b), n.º 4, article n.º 50 of ECDU.
VII.2 - If the Jury decides to hold the aforementioned public hearings, those will have to take place between the 30th day and the 70th day after the deadline to submit the application, and all candidates will be informed of the date and place of the public hearings at least five days in advance.
VII.3 ? The aforementioned public hearings can be done by videoconference, and the Jury must guarantee that they are done in equal circumstances to all candidates.
VII.4 - The Jury may also decide to request additional documents, in compliance with paragraph a), n.º 4, article 50.º of ECDU, with the aim of clarifying the information contained in the curriculum vitae of a given candidate.
VIII ? Submission of applications
VIII.1 - Applications must be submitted until the 30th working day from the date of publication of this notice in the Diário da República.
VIII.2 ? The application documents must be submitted to the particular electronic address related to this public notice provided at the Human Resources of IST web page:
http://drh.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/job-opportunities
IX ? Application Supporting Documents
IX.1 ? The application must be accompanied by their respective application form that can be found at the Human Resources of IST web page:
http://drh.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/job-opportunities
where it should be explicitly referred the candidate?s agreement that all communications and notifications in the scope of this competition must be made through the specific electronic mail address indicated by the candidate.
IX.2 - The application must be accompanied by the following documents:
a) Document in PDF format with the candidate?s curriculum vitae that should include:
i) the teaching, research, knowledge transfer and management activities within the university that are relevant for this competition, identifying the activities developed in the scope of the different aspects that, according to article 4.º of ECDU, constitute the set of duties to be performed by Full Professor, in accordance with the evaluation parameters and criteria mentioned in V.4 of this notice and which are considered relevant to the disciplinary field of this recruitment procedure; the candidate should structure the curriculum vitae such that it enables an easy and complete identification of its own contribution to the items listed in V.4, demonstrating the fulfillment of the quantitative criteria listed in IV.4; ii) the "ResearcherID"/?MR Author ID?/?Author-ID? which enables the identification of the publications list, their respective number of citations, the H-index according to the sources: Clarivate Analytics Web of Knowledge/MathSciNet/Zentralblatt Math;b) Document with the most relevant academic contributions over the last 10 years, presented in accordance with the rules found in: http://drh.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/job-opportunities
c) Document in PDF format with the scientific and pedagogical project proposed by the candidate on the disciplinary field to this recruitment procedure, according to paragraph e) from V.4 of this notice, presented in accordance with the rules found in: http://drh.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/job-opportunities
d) PDF version of all scientific publications mentioned in the document described on the above paragraph b) from IX.2 of this notice;
e) Other works that the candidate might consider relevant for the Jury to evaluate;
f) A declaration on honour that testifies the candidate?s fulfilment of the legal requirements for admission to this recruitment procedure.
X - Language
X.1. All documents that accompany the application must be presented in Portuguese or in English.
X.2. Since some members of the jury are non-native Portuguese speakers, the documents to be submitted for any rebuttal, as part of ?pronúncia em sede de audiência prévia de candidatos? or ?reclamações?, and that the jury must consider in the analysis of the rebuttal, must be submitted in Portuguese and in English.
XI ? Composition of the Jury
According to ECDU (articles 45.º and 46.º) and the ?Regulamento? (article 14.º), the jury is composed of the following members:
President: Rector of the University of Lisbon
Members:
Doctor Gustav Holzegel, Full Professor, Imperial College London, United Kingdom;
Doctor Hans Ringström, Full Professor, KTH, Sweden;
Doctor Mihalis Dafermos, Full Professor, Princeton University, USA;
Doutor Gabriel Czerwionka Lopes Cardoso, Professor Catedrático, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa;
Doutor José Manuel Vergueiro Monteiro Cidade Mourão, Professor Catedrático, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa.
Annex
Declaration on honour
I, (name), candidate to the recruitment procedure open to fulfil one Full Professor position available at the staff list of Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, hereby declare on my word of honour that I fulfil the requisites present in article 17º from the "Lei Geral do Trabalho em Funções Públicas" (General Law for Labour Work on Public Functions), approved by the Law n.º 35/2014 from 20th of June, as well the requisites present in article 40º from the "Estatuto da Carreira Docente Universitária" (University Teaching Career Statutes), republished in the Decree-Law n.º 205/2009 from 31th of August, fulfil all the requisites for admission to this recruitment procedure that are predicted by the Law, in particular those expressed in Chapter IV of the "Estatuto da Carreira Docente Universitária" (University Teaching Career Statutes), the Regulations, especially the "Regulamento Geral de Concursos para Recrutamento de Professores Catedráticos, Associados e Auxiliares da Universidade de Lisboa" (General Regulations for the Recruitment of Full Professors, Associate Professors and Assistant Professors of the University of Lisbon) and in this notice.
I also declare that all statements herein were made with the knowledge that wilful false statements will result in my exclusion from this recruitment procedure, notwithstanding the communication of such statements to the competent authorities for criminal procedures.
I further declare that I understand that, in case I am placed in an eligible position within the final ranking list of the candidates, I must comply with the deadline of ten days as of the date of notification of the final ranking list to provide Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, with the supporting documents that make proof of the fact that I fulfil the admission requirements defined for this recruitment procedure.
I further declare that I understand that the failure to provide the supporting documents referred to in the previous paragraph, for reasons within my control, will result in my exclusion from this recruitment procedure.
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Instituto Superior Técnico, ? of ?. of ...2020, The President, Professor Doctor Rogério Anacleto Cordeiro Colaço.
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