International Tender - 1 (one) position for Associate Professor - Health Sciences, sub-areas of Biomedical Sciences, Medical Biostatistics and Data Science - FMUC

About this position

Public Notice (Associate Professor) Notice is hereby given that, by order of mine, issued on the date of signature of this notice, the following is open for a period of 30 (thirty) working days following the publication of the present notice in Diário da República [Official Journal of the Portuguese Republic], international call for tenders to fill 1 (one) position in the university teaching career, in the category of Associate Professor, under a contract of employment in public functions for an indefinite period, the disciplinary area of Health Sciences, sub-areas of Biomedical Sciences, Medical Biostatistics and Data Science, from Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra, opened under the Estatuto da Carreira Docente Universitária [University Teaching Career Statute] in its latest version, hereinafter referred to as ECDU, and the Regulamento de Recrutamento e Contratação de Pessoal Docente da Universidade de Coimbra [Regulation on the Recruitment and Hiring of Teaching Staff of the University of Coimbra] hereinafter referred to as RRCPDUC, Regulation Nr. 330/2016, of 29 March, as well as further applicable legislation. I – Reference, Place of Work and Functional

Content

I.1

Public tender reference

IT136-26-41 I.2 Place of

Work

University of Coimbra, Faculty of Medicine I.3.

Functional content

• the duties assigned to the category of Associate Professor, under the terms of Article 4 and Article 5, no. 2 of the University Teaching Career Statute, approved by Decree-Law no. 448/79, of November 13, as amended by Decree-Law no. 205/2009, of August 31st.
• II – Admission Requirements II.1.
• Applicants shall be at least 18 years old, not be inhibited to holding a job in the public sector, nor forbidden to perform the intended position; applicants shall also be in good health and possess the psychological profile required for the job and shall meet the compulsory vaccination requirements.
• II.2.
• To be, on the date of the deadline for submitting applications, holder of a doctorate degree for more than five years, in the area or in any of the disciplinary areas for which the tender is open, or in a related area that, complemented with the scientific path, show the ability to work centrally the tender is open.
• III – Application III.1.

Submission

• Candidates must access and register on the electronic platform apply.uc.pt, to submit the application, selecting the procedure to which they intend to apply.
• The documents included in the application are exclusively in digital portable document format (pdf), except for the documents referred in III.2.4. and III.2.6., which can be delivered in other digital formats.
• The application submission is carried out by completing the sections available on the Apply UC electronic platform, under “My application”.
• If any of the works/papers submitted contains classified information, revealing trade or industrial secrets or literary, artistic or scientific property secrets, candidates must select that option, available on the platform for each document; otherwise, those works/papers can be freely accessed by any of the other applicants when consulting the tender records.
• Candidates can highlight in their CV periods of suspension of professional activity for socially protected reasons, namely, for reasons of parental leave, prolonged serious illness, and other legally protected situations of unavailability for work, always attaching supporting documents, and the jury must ensure that their evaluative judgment is not influenced by these pauses.
• III.2.
• Mandatory documents III.2.1.
• Curriculum Vitae, in Portuguese or English language.
• The Curriculum Vitae must not contain personal data, worthy of protection under the General Data Protection Regulation.
• The Curriculum Vitae shall include a foreword with the description, if any, of all the candidate's employment relationships with higher education institutions up to the date of the application and the respective periods, identifying the category held, the nature of the employment relationship, the subject area(s) and the higher education institutions where the candidate has worked, explaining precisely the employment relationship held at the date of the application.
• It must also include a reasoned synopsis demonstrating that the candidate has the appropriate expertise to the disciplinary subareas for which the tender is open.
• The candidate’s Curriculum Vitae shall be structured in order to separately respond to the different items listed below in IV.2.
• III.2.2.
• Career Development Plan, up to 10 pages, with formatting and font size that ensure adequate readability, concerning the research lines in the disciplinary subareas for which this tender is open and which the candidate intends to develop at the University of Coimbra.
• This plan shall meet the following requirements: presentation of the main issues on which the candidate intends to focus his/her future research, based on the current state-of-the-art context; short and summarised description of the research strategies the candidate intends to adopt to develop research and to solve or contribute to the solving of the above-mentioned issues; explanation of reasons and motivations for the presented choices.
• III.2.3.
• Copy of qualification certificates.
• Opponents of the tender who are selected for the position(s) to be filled and hold a doctoral degree obtained abroad must present recognition or registration (as applicable) of their degree at the time of signing the contract, under the terms of Decree-Law no. 66/2018, of August 16, under penalty of exclusion.
• When recognition is requested from the University of Coimbra, the University of Coimbra bears the cost of recognizing or registering the candidate(s) who will be hired, with the candidate(s) being exempt from paying the fee until the final ranking.
• More information available at:

https://www.uc.pt/academicos/graus/reconhecimentos

. The failure to present the recognition of the degree at the time of contracting, un