Public notice Ref.ª
CDL-CTTRI-145-SGRH/2026 — Doctor Artur Manuel Soares da Silva, Full Professor and Rector of the University of Aveiro, hereby announces that for a period of 10 business days, starting on the first business day following after which this notice is published, by extractive notice, in the Diário da República, an international public notice is opened for recruitment in the form of an Uncertain Term Work Contract, under the Portuguese Labour Code, 1 (one) position for a First Level Doctorate Researcher for the exercise of research activities in the scientific areas of Management, Health Sciences, Psychology or related areas, within the project
THERAVERSE - Mundos Imersivos na Saúde (Immersive Worlds in Health), reference THERAVERSE, funded by the
COMPETE2030-FEDER Operational Programmethrough its European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) component and by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Foundation for Science and Technology) through its State Budget component.
The present public notice was opened on 13 of September 2026 by order of the Rector of the University of Aveiro, following the proposal of the Scientific Council.
The contest is governed by the provisions of Decree-Law 57/2016, August 29, that approves the rules for post-doctoral work contracts, designed to stimulate employment in science and technology in all areas of knowledge (RJEC) within the legal provisions of the Labour Code, Law no.7/2009, February 12, in its current wording and other applicable legislation and regulations.
The monthly payment corresponds to 2408,11€.
1 — Admission requirements: Any national, foreign, and stateless candidate(s) who hold a doctorate degree in Management, Health Sciences, Psychology or a related scientific area and a scientific and professional curriculum whose profile is suited for the activity to be performed, can submit their applications.
Candidate(s) of the contest holding qualifications obtained abroad must prove the recognition, equivalence, or registration of the doctorate degree, under the applicable legislation.
This formality must be fulfilled up to the date of signing the contract.
2 — Formalization of the applications: 2.1 — The Applications must be accompanied by the following documents: a) Application minute for the competition addressed to the Rector of the University of Aveiro;
b) Copy of detailed curriculum vitae structured according to the items under point 5;
c) Other documents that are relevant for the evaluation of the qualification in related scientific areas;
d) Any other documents that the applicant considers relevant, namely for the assessment of the information referred to under no. 2 of Article 5 of the
RJEC.
2.2 — The curriculum vitae should contain: a) Full name of the candidate;
b) Copy of the certificate with the respective mark or grade or another document that is legally recognized for the same purpose;
c) All pertinent information for assessing the application, considering the selection and ranking criteria of the present call, being it recommended that this information is organized according to the sub-items of the assessment described under Section 5 below.
2.3 — The compulsory application minute, to be completely filled out, dated, and signed, is available at 2.4 — Submission of the application: 2.4.1 — The application may be submitted in Portuguese or English, by email, to the Human Resources Department of the University of Aveiro (), until the deadline stipulated in this Notice.
The Services will issue a message proving the electronic validation of the same.
2.4.2 — Instructions for the submission of applications, in digital format, are available in the Competition and Job Offers of the Human Resources area at 2.4.3 — When formalizing the application, if a classified document is submitted that reveals a commercial or industrial secret;
a secret relative to the literary, artistic, or scientific property;
or that requires confidentiality, the candidate must identify the document with this information, under penalty of the work in question being unrestrictedly accessed by any of the other candidates, when consulting the process.
2.5 — Non-compliance with the deadline for submission of the application, as well as failure to submit or late submission of the documents, referred to in points 2.1 and 2.2, will lead to the disqualification of the application.
Candidates will be notified of the exclusion decision by e-mail, for the hearing of interested parties, following Articles 121 et seq.
of the Administrative Procedure Code.
3 — Call Jury: 3.1 — In accordance with article 13 of the
RJEC the call jury has the following composition: Chairman: Professor Rui Miguel Beja Sardo de Sousa Patrício, Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro Jury members: - Dr Ana Isabel Dias Daniel, Assistant Researcher at the University of Aveiro;
- Professor Ana Alexandra da Costa Dias, Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro.
Substitute members: - Professor Jorge Humberto Fernandes Mota, Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro;
- Professor Nina Katarzyna Szczygiel, Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro.
4 — Jury operation rules 4.1 — 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.
4.2 — The jury deliberates approval on absolute merit, based on the merit of the overall curriculum of candidates with regards to the scientific area of the Competition and also taking into account, cumulatively, compliance with at least one of the following requisites: 4.2.1 — The applicant is the author or co-author of at least 5 articles, in the scientific 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 4.2.2 — Have obtained a total of at least 50 citations in the Science Citation Index Expanded of the Web of Science from Clarivate Analytics or the SCI Verse Scopus, relating to the scientific works produced in the area for which the contest is open, or 4.2.3 — Demonstrated experience of participation in at least one project, study or applied initiative in health, well-being or the organization of health services.
4.3 — The exclusion decision in absolute merit is communicated to candidates by e-mail for their hearing.
4.4 — After the phase of approval in absolute merit, the jury will begin the process of appraisal of applications, taking into account the criteria set out in this notice.
5 — Evaluation and selection: 5.1 —The selection methods are curricular evaluation and interview.
5.2 — The evaluation of the scientific and curricular course focuses on the relevance, quality, and timeliness: a) Of scientific, technological, cultural, or artistic production in the last five years, deemed most relevant by the candidate;
b) Of applied research activities, or based on practical work, developed in the last five years, deemed most impactful by the candidate;
c) Of knowledge extension and dissemination activities developed in the last five years, namely under the scope of the promotion of culture and scientific practices, deemed most relevant by the candidate;
d) Of the activities of management of science, technology, and innovation programs, or the experience in observing and monitoring the scientific and technological, or higher education system, in Portugal or abroad.
5.3— The five-year period mentioned above can be extended by the panel if requested by the candidate, whenever the suspension of scientific activities is reasoned by socially protected grounds like parental leave, long-term serious illness, and other legal situations of unavailability to work.
6 — Curricular Evaluation.
This component of the evaluation is expressed on a numerical scale from 0 to 20 taking into account the following criteria: 6.1 — Curricular evaluation criteria are: 6.1.1 - Criteria for assessing the scientific and methodological output of the last five years considered most relevant by the candidate (10 points);
- Scientific and technical-scientific output in the area for which the procedure is open, expressed through the number, type and quality of publications, conference presentations, technical reports and other outputs relevant to the project.
- Participation in research projects, with particular emphasis on experience in applied projects in health, well-being, service design and evaluation, health management or related areas.
- Research methodology skills, particularly experience in designing qualitative, quantitative or mixed-methods studies, developing and applying data collection instruments, statistical analysis and qualitative analysis.
- Ability to systematise and interpret evidence, including integrating empirical findings and supporting the production of recommendations and scientific and technical outputs.
6.1.2 - Criteria for assessing experience in identifying user needs, validation and working with stakeholders over the last five years (5 points);
- Experience in identifying needs, designing use cases, prototyping and validating solutions in applied research contexts.
- Experience in collecting and analysing feedback from users and stakeholders, particularly through interviews, focus groups, workshops, questionnaires or other participatory methods.
- Experience in testing, validation and pilot studies in real-world settings, preferably in collaboration with health organisations or in other relevant institutional contexts.
- Experience in collaborating with external entities, including health organisations, the public sector, municipalities, associations or other institutions relevant to the project.
- Participation in scientific and technical dissemination activities, including presentations, seminars, workshops, technical reports, policy briefs and other forms of communicating results.
6.1.3 - Criteria for assessing experience in providing technical-scientific support for the implementation of research and innovation projects (5 points);
- Participation in the scientific and technical implementation of projects, including support for operational planning, task monitoring, information organisation and the production of supporting documentation.
- Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams, coordinating with researchers, designers, stakeholders and institutional partners.
- Experience in organising and managing scientific and technical information, including support for preparing reports, scientific articles, dissemination materials and documentation associated with the development of research projects.
- Ability to work autonomously, organisational skills and communication skills appropriate to the activities envisaged in the work plan.
6.2 — The score obtained in the curricular evaluation method is expressed on a numeric scale of 0 to 20, considering the valuation up to two decimal places.
6.3 — The jury deliberates by vote justified according to the criteria of evaluation;
no abstentions are allowed.
6.4 — The classification of each candidate is obtained by averaging the scores of each of the elements of the jury.
6.5 — Once the Curricular Assessment is completed, the candidates who obtain an average score equal to or greater than 12 points are approved for the next stage of assessment, as set out in point 5.1. 6.6 — The candidates who obtain an average score of less than 12 points are considered excluded from the competition.
7 — Session of Interview This evaluation method is intended exclusively for the clarification of aspects related to the results of the candidate’s research, and may or may not be applied by the selection board when the results of the evaluation of this method