By decision of the Board of Directors, NOVA.id.FCT - Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT (“NOVA.id.FCT”) opens an international call to hire a Ph.D. Graduate Researcher, with the internal reference “#NOVAID226”, under a unfixed term employment contract to conduct research activities in the field of Statistics and Risk Management, within the scope of the research unit “Center for Mathematics and Applications” (CMA) (UI/297/2020), financed by “Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.”/MCTES (FCT, I.P.) (ref. UIDB/00297/2020 and UIDP/00297/2020) through national funds (PIDDAC) (OE). This international call for hiring a Ph.D. Graduate Researcher is under the funding of UIDB/00297/2020 which can be changed to UIDP/00297/2020.

1. Type of contract and applicable legislation

The hiring of a Ph.D. Graduate Researcher shall be made by means of an Unfixed Term Employment Contract in accordance with the Portuguese Labour Code approved by the Law no. 7/2009 of February 12th, as amended. The contract should have an expected duration of 4 months, with possible extension, and should not be extended further than the funding duration above mentioned. The contract should begin in March 2024.

The present hiring procedure is further governed inter alia by Decree-law no. 57/2016 of August 29th, as amended by the Law no. 57/2017 of July 19th and Regulatory decree no. 11-A/2017 of December 29th.

2. Main attributions and activities and exclusivity

The Ph.D. Graduate Researcher will develop research activities in Statistics and Machine Learning applied to biomedical data, in particular multi-omics data from cancer patients. The work will be developed in the domain of dimensional reduction, pattern recognition and feature selection. The Ph.D. Graduate Researcher will also collaborate in student supervision and management included in the activities of the research unit.

The Ph.D. Graduate Researcher shall fully devote the whole of his/her professional activity to NOVA.id.FCT, on an exclusive basis.

3. Place of work

The work is to be carried out at the facilities of the Center for Mathematics and Applications (CMA), hosted at the Department of Mathematics, located in NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon (NOVA FCT) and the researcher shall travel, in Portugal or abroad, as required by his/her attributions or as necessary for his/her activity.

4. Monthly remuneration

The Ph.D. Graduate Researcher shall earn a monthly remuneration in the gross amount of €2.294,95 by reference to the 1st grade of the salary scale, pursuant to number 2 of Article 15 of Decree-Law no. 57/2016 of August 29th, as amended by Law no. 57/2017 of July 19th, and Regulatory Decree no. 11-A/2017 of December 29th.

5. Admission Requirements

Applicants to this call may be national, foreign or stateless candidates holding a Ph.D. degree in the field of Mathematics or related areas within the scope of the research carried out at CMA. Previous experience on the area defined in the point 2 of the present public notice will be valued.

The registration and/or recognition in Portugal of the doctoral degree will be verified at the time of signing the contract, under the provisions of article 25 of Decree-Law no. 66/2018, of August 16th.

6. Evaluation of the Applications and Composition of the Jury

Applications shall be subject to evaluation by a jury that shall follow the procedure established in articles 13 and 14 (by virtue of article 19) of Decree-Law no. 57/2016 of August 29th, as amended by Law no. 57/2017 of July 19th.

Pursuant to Article 13 of Decree-Law no. 57/2016 the jury is composed of the following members:

- Chairperson: Frederico Almeida Gião Gonçalves Caeiro, CMA e DM-NOVA FCT.

- Member: Isabel Cristina Maciel Natário, CMA e DM-NOVA FCT.

- Member: Vanda Marisa da Rosa Milheiro Lourenço, CMA e DM-NOVA FCT.

- Substitute members: Filipe José Gonçalves Pereira Marques, CMA e DM-NOVA FCT and Regina Maria Baltazar Bispo, CMA e DMNOVA FCT.

7. Selection criteria

The selection of the Ph.D Graduate Researcher will be carried out through the evaluation of the scientific and curricular achievements as established by DecreeLaw no. 57/2016 of August 29th, as amended by Law no. 57/2017 of July 19th and the selection criteria and their respective weighting shall be as follows:

a) CV, with relevance to alignment with the area for which the call is open;

b) Motivation letter and recommendation letter;

c) Interview (will be conducted by videoconference).

Each of the items (a) to (c) is rated with a score from 0 to 100. All applications will be evaluated on a scale of 0 to 100 points, using a weighted average, with the following weighting of the items: (a) 60%; (b) 30%; (c) 10%. Only the three candidates with the highest score obtained with items (a) and (b) and with a minimum of 65 points will have an interview. Candidates who obtain less than 75 points will not be hired.

8. Final Decision

The final deliberation of the jury shall be homologated by the ultimate governing body of NOVA.id.FCT that is also responsible for the decision of hiring.

The list of admitted and excluded candidates and the final list of classification will be published on the website of NOVA.id.FCT (www.novaidfct.pt) and sent by electronic mail with receipt of delivery to all candidates.

9. Submission of Applications

A tender is open from the 06th of February of 2024 to the 20th of February of 2024.

Documentation to be provided when applying: Applications must be formalized, obligatorily, by sending the following documents written in Portuguese or English and, preferably, in PDF files:

a) CV with reference number for “ORCID”, “MathSciNet author profile”, “WoS ResearcherID at Publons” and “Scopus Author ID”;

b) Motivation letter, including a synopsis of the scientific career;

c) Copy of Doctoral certificate;

d) Copies of at most 3 publications representative of the experience of the targeted research area;

e) A reference letter directly sent by the writer to novamath.secretariado@fct.unl.pt, with the subject “Recommendation letter for «CANDIDATE NAME» – Statistics and Risk Management;

f) Declaration on honor (according to the draft available here for download).

Form of submission of applications: Applications should be sent by email to novamath.secretariado@fct.unl.pt with subject: Junior Researcher application – Statistics and Risk Management.

10. Non-discrimination and equal access policy

NOVA.id.FCT actively promotes a non-discrimination and equal access policy, reason for which no candidate can be benefited, prejudiced or deprived of any duty, namely age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, chronic illness, nationality, ethnic origin or race, religion or political beliefs.