Associate Professor in the subject area of Language Sciences or Translation (CD-CTTI-167-SGRH/2026) at University of Aveiro

About this position

Public notice No.

1216/2026 - Ref.ª CD-CTFP-167-SGRH/2026 -

Doctor Paulo Jorge dos Santos Gonçalves Ferreira

, Full Professor and Rector of the University of Aveiro, hereby announces that for a period of

thirty

business days starting on the first business day immediately after the publication of the present notice in the

Diário da República

, an international public Competition is opened for the appointment to 1 (one) position as Associate Professor in the subject area of

Language Sciences or Translation

.

The present Competition, opened on 06th of July, 2026

as ordered by the

Rector of the University of Aveiro, is governed by the provisions of Article 37 and following articles in the Statute of the University Teaching Career, hereinafter referred to as SUTC, approved by Decree-Law No. 448/79 of 13th of November, with the new wording introduced by Decree-Law No. 205/2009 of 31st of August, amended by Law No. 8/2010 of 13th of May and by the applicable legislation and norms, namely the Competition Rules for the Employment of Teaching Staff Under Contract to Exercise Public Functions, hereinafter referred to as Regulation, published in the Diário da República, 2nd series, No. 222, on 16th of November of 2010.

1 – Admission requirements:

1.1

—

Applicants to the Competition must be holders of a PhD degree for over five years according to the article 41 of the SUTC.

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 — Application requirements:

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) 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) Presentation of a single document containing the justification of the papers selected in the previous paragraph;

e) Content report, teaching methods and bibliography in a curricular unit of the area where the competition is open;

f) Scientific-pedagogical project: Document that allows

to

sustain

a

future

mission

letter

that

must include a proposal of activities that the candidate intends to develop during the first five years of activity as Full Professor, explaining how one can contribute to the progress and development of the disciplinary area for which the competition is open in the technical-scientific, pedagogical, and cooperation with society aspects;

g) Document that objectively highlights the number of citations (if applicable) 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 point 5.1.1.;

h) Any other elements that the applicant deems relevant or the assessment of his or her merits.

2.2 — The application, which must be entirely filled out, dated, and signed, is available at

https://www.ua.pt/file/75846

.

2.3 — The

curriculum vitae

should contain:

a) Full name of the candidate;

b) Document proving the 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) Copy of the certificate with the respective classification or other document that is legally recognized for the same effect. Applicants who hold a doctor's degree 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.

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

2.4 — Candidates belonging to the University of Aveiro are dismissed from presenting the documents mentioned in items b), c) and d) of point 2.3, as long as these documents are included in their individual file.

2.5 — How to present the 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 proving the electronic validation of the same.

2.5.2 — Instructions for the submission of applications, in digital format, are available in the area of Recruitment and Job areaHuman Resources at

https://www.ua.pt/en/sgrh/teaching-staff-new-competitons-and-offers

.

2.5.3 — 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 file.

2.6 — Non-compliance with the deadline for submission of the application, as well as failure to submit or late submission of the documents, referred in points 2.1, a) to g), will lead to the disqualification of the application. Candidates will be notified of the exclusion decision by e-mail, for the purposes of the hearing of interested parties, in accordance with Articles 121 et seq. of the Administrative Procedure Code.

2.7 — Under the terms of subsection a) of No. 4 of article 50 of t