Call is open for the award of 1 (one) Research Grant under the “Multi-sensing SMART battery Electrodes concept for in-situ operation monitoring” (SMART-E, 2022.04012.PTDC), for the development of R&D activities to be carried out by PhD students or graduates and masters enrolled in non-academic degree courses, financed “Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P.”, under the following conditions:

Recipient admission requirements /Profile:

1. be enrolled in a PhD or be a graduate and master enrolled in a non-academic degree course;
2. Not exceed, with the conclusion of the scholarship contract in question, an accumulated period of 2 (two) years, consecutive or interspersed, if is a master enrolled in a non-academic degree course, or of 4 (four) years if enrolled in a Doctorate;
3. have training in the areas of Materials Engineering, Micro and Nanotechnologies Engineering, Physics Engineering, or other related areas that have given the candidate experience in the preparation energy storage devices

Candidates who have obtained the degree abroad must have the degree recognized in Portugal, pursuant to Decree-Law No. 66/2018 of August 16.

Work plan: The candidate will develop research work performing the following tasks with the following objectives:

a) Establish specifications for functional sensor components for implementation in battery test cells;

b) Selection of manufacturing processes and materials for production;

c) Preliminary studies of the impact of the sensor on the architecture of the test cells and batteries;

d) Preparation of reports and scientific papers based on the work described above.

Applicable legislation and regulations: Statute of the Scientific Research Grantee, approved by Law No. 40/2004 of August 18, amended and republished by Decree-Law No. 202/2012, of August 27 and amended by Decree-Law No. 233/2012 of 29 October, Law No. 12/2013 of January 29 and Decree-Law No. 123/2019 of August 28 and The Regulation of Research Grants of the Foundation for Science and Technology, IP - 2019, available in  https://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/docs/RegulamentoBolsasFCT2019.pdf  and  https://dre.pt/application/file/a/127230968.

It is subsidiarily applicable the Regulation of UNINOVA Research Grants, approved by deliberation of the Board of Directors of the FCT-Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, in the meeting of March 2 of 2022.

Duration of the grant: The fellowship will last for 7 (seven) months, until December 31, 2023, possibly renewable within the duration of the project, as long as it does not exceed the limit mentioned in point b) of the admission requirements and is scheduled to begin in June 2023.

Application deadline and form of submission of applications: The competition is open for the period from May 09^th to May 22^nd 2023.

Applications must be formalised by submitting the following documentation:

...          Letter of application;

...          Curriculum Vitae;

...          Motivation Letter;

...          Certificate of Qualifications (and respective grade recognition, if awarded by a foreign Institution) or declaration of commitment of honor on the ownership of the respective academic degree according to draft available on the UNINOVA website (https://www.uninova.pt/job-opportunity/internal-documents),  in the Job Opportunities tab.

             Upon contracting, the Certificate of Qualifications (and respective recognition, if awarded by a foreign Institution) must be delivered;

...          Informed consent statement duly dated and signed, according to the draft available on the UNINOVA website  (https://www.uninova.pt/job-opportunity/internal-documents),  in the Job Opportunities tab;

...          Copy of ID;

...          Other documents attesting to what was reported on the CV.

In the event of contractualization, the selected candidate must present the Proof of registration in a doctorate or in a course not conferring an academic degree.

Applications must be submitted to UNINOVA or submitted by email  to cenimat.rh@fct.unl.pt, and to recrutamento@uninova.pt with the subject BI-Mestre-SMART_E-01/2023.