PUBLIC NOTICE
(Assistant Professor)
I publicly announce that, by my order issued at the date of signature of this notice, an international tender
for 1 (one) position of teaching career statute in the category of Assistant Professor in the field of Physics
and Engineering Physics, subarea of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, is hereby open for 30 (thirty)
working days following the publication of the present notice in Diário da República [Official Journal of the
Portuguese Republic]. The stated position will be held under a public service employment contract of
unspecified duration at the Facuty of Science and Technology at the University of Coimbra.
This international tender shall be conducted pursuant to 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 and Place of Work:
I.1. Public tender reference: IT136-25-15195.
I.2. Place of work: University of Coimbra, Faculty of Science and Technology Department of Physics.
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, 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 in one of the fields for which 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), with
the exception of the documents referred in III.2.4. and III.2.6., which can be delivered in other digital
formats.
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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, duly dated and signed, in both Portuguese and English language. Personal
data, worthy of protection under the General Data Protection Regulation, must appear on a separate page
from the rest of the information in the Curriculum Vitae.
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 subject areas or sub-area 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, concerning the research lines in the scientific fields or
subarea 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.
(s), 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, under the terms of Decree-
Law nr. 66/2018 of August 16th, is ground for exclusion.
The candidates who hold a public service employment contract with the University of Coimbra may be
exempt from the qualification certificates submission. To this end, they must select this option on the
platform, stating that they are already in their individual process.
III.2.4. Document in which the candidate identifies the 5 scientific results or activities that they consider
to represent their most significant contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the disciplinary areas
or sub-area the tender is open to.

III.2.5. Separate copy of the documents proving the contributions referred to in the previous point (one
PDF file per document).
III.2.6. Copy of other works that the candidate considers relevant.
III.2.7. Any other elements that the candidate considers relevant.
III.3. All application documents above indicated in III.2. shall be submitted in Portuguese and English,
exception made to those mentioned in III.2.6. and III.2.7., which may be submitted in a different
language. If the original documents mentioned under III.2.3. and III.2.5. are written in a language other
than Portuguese or English, candidates are required to include a version in one of those languages.
Exception is made to Diplomas, when written in Latin, in which case no translation is required.
III.4. Applications that do not comply with the instructions or that fail to meet the tender’s formal
requirements, pursuant to the applicable laws and to this Public Notice, shall not be accepted. In the same
way, if the submission of required documents or papers are submitted outside the established timeframe,
the application will not be accepted.
The impossibility to comply with the language requirements defined in points III.2. and III.3. of this Public
Notice, must be duly substantiated, in a separate document presented by the candidates, under the terms
of point III.1. of the Notice.
Applicants who are non-native speakers of either Portuguese or English, shall attest their proficiency at
level C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in, at least, one of those
languages.
IV – Selection methods and criteria
IV.1. Selection Methods: CV Assessment (50%) + Public Hearing (50%) + Approval on Absolute Merit
(qualification criterion), with the assessment being given, in the Curricular Assessment and Public Hearing,
on a scale of 0 to 100 points.
IV.1.1. If the Selection Committee exceptionally decides, in the first meeting, not to apply the Public
Hearing, the CV Assessment shall have a weight of 100% of the score, followed by the Approval on
Absolute Merit (qualification criterion).
IV.2. Selection criteria for both CV Assessment and Public Hearing are scientific performance and
pedagogical skills of the candidates, as well as other activities deemed relevant with regard to the mission
of a global university, in accordance with the assessment of the parameters mentioned below.
IV.2.1. Scientific performance of the candidate in the disciplinary areas or sub-area for which the tender
is open, with an assessment of up to 80 points being awarded, considering the following assessment
parameters:
IV.2.1.1. Scientific production and its impact and national and international recognition – 30
points: the relevance of the results obtained by the candidates will be considered, with great emphasis
on the 5 scientific results or scientific activities indicated by the candidates as their most significant
contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the disciplinary areas or sub-area for which the tender
is open, as well as recognition by the scientific community of the results obtained.

IV.2.1.2. Future scientific prospects – 10 points: the ability of the candidates to show that, in the
future, they can have a very relevant scientific production in the University of Coimbra, namely based on
the submitted career development plans.
IV.2.1.3. Coordination and participation in scientific projects – 20 points: previous experience of
candidates and their potential for beneficially and successfully coordinating and participating in nationally
and internationally funded projects in the scientific fields or sub-area for which the tender is open.
IV.2.1.4. Active participation in the community within and outside the university – 20 points:
active participation in the community, namely through organizational and management duties in scientific
activities, transfer of knowledge to society and participation in assessment tasks and, in general, all
activities pursued by the candidates that demonstrate the skills to develop, with great quality, the activities
of a global, extremely productive and scientifically recognised university.
IV.2.2. Pedagogical skills of the candidate, with an assessment of up to 20 points, being awarded,
considering the following assessment parameters:
IV.2.2.1. Teaching activity – 10 points: if existing, previous teaching activity, as well as evidence of
the skills to successfully carry out teaching. This will be based on the available pedagogical assessment
tools, namely pedagogical surveys, the results of which candidates are required to include in their CV, and
other relevant indicators, such as awards and other prizes.
IV.2.2.2. Pedagogical materials produced and supervision and guidance activities – 5 points:
the quality and quantity of the pedagogical material produced by the candidate, the relevance and impact
of pedagogical publications and the guidance, tutoring and monitoring activities of students will be
assessed.
IV.2.2.3. Pedagogical projects and active participation in the community within and outsider
the University – 5 points: the coordination, participation and dynamization of new pedagogical projects
will be assessed (example: creation of new subject programs, participation in the creation of new courses
or study programs) or reformulation and improvement of existing projects, the implementation of projects
with an impact on the process of teaching/learning, as well as the intervention of candidates in the
community, namely in organizational and management tasks related to pedagogical activity and
dissemination of knowledge, and in general all activities of candidates that have skills to perform with
quality the tasks necessary for a pedagogically very effective global university.
IV.2.3. Development, by the candidate, of other activities relevant for the mission of a global university
may justifiably enhance the assessment of the parameters mentioned above under IV.2.1. and IV.2.2.,
whenever the scope of such activities is considered to influence the performance of the candidate in
relation to those parameters and the results of these activities are considered to possess the required
quality to justify this enhancement.
IV.3. Each member of the jury assigns, in each of the selection methods, Curricular Assessment and Public
Hearing, to each candidate admitted and who meets the minimum requirement of absolute merit, a score
in accordance with what is defined in IV.2, either for the parameters for evaluating scientific performance
and pedagogical capacity.

The partial classification of each of the selection criteria (scientific performance and pedagogical capacity)
results from the sum of the classifications awarded in each of the parameters indicated in IV.2.
In both the Curricular Assessment and the Public Hearing, the overall classification corresponds to the sum
of the partial classifications awarded in each of the selection criteria.
The final classification that each member of the jury assigns to each candidate is the weighted average of
the overall classification given in each of the selection methods (Curriculum Assessment and Public
Hearing).
Candidates are then subject to approval on Absolute Merit and subsequent ordination under the terms of
point VI. of this Public Notice. If there is no Public Hearing, the final classification will be that given in the
Curriculum Assessment, with candidates then subject to approval on Absolute Merit and subsequent
ranking in accordance with point VI. of this Public Notice.
IV.4. All candidates complying with the application requirements and who meet the minimum requirement
of absolute merit are subject to the Curricular Assessment to be carried out in accordance with the criteria
defined in IV.2. However, only the five candidates best positioned in the Curricular Assessment will be
admitted to the Public Hearing, if any.
IV.5. Candidates who can contribute to the UC having a global level activity are approved on Absolute
Merit, under the terms set out in article 19 of the RRCPDUC and taking into account the category and the
disciplinary areas and/or sub-area for which the tender is open, taking into account the selection criteria
and evaluation parameters indicated in point IV.2., considered qualitatively, and provided that they meet
the following minimum requirement:
1- Publication, in the last five years, of at least ten articles in scientific journals classified in the areas of
the Clarivate Analytics Web of Science relevant to the scientific sub-area for which the tender is open.
Hired candidates that do not master Portuguese and English will be required to learn the language up to
CEFR level C1, which allows them to teach in Portuguese and in English, in order to maintain their contract
after the probationary period.
V – Selection Process
V.1. Preliminary meeting
In the first meeting, which is always preparatory, the jury decides on the admission of applications and on
whether or not to hold a Public Hearing, in the latter case justifying its decision in accordance with
paragraph 2 of article 27 of the RRCPDUC.
Even at the first meeting, the jury checks whether all admitted candidates meet the minimum requirement
of absolute merit.
If any of the admitted candidates do not meet the minimum requirement of absolute merit, the jury decides
to exclude them, refraining from submitting them to the Curricular Assessment.
If the decision is to hold a Public Hearing the Jury must then apply the CV Assessment selection method
to all candidates admitted to the tender and who meet the minimum requirement for absolute merit and
will rank them in accordance with the terms set out in the following point.

In the event of non-compliance, or partial compliance, with any of the requirements defined in point III of
the Public Notice, the jury decides whether this insufficiency prevents the application from being
considered, or whether, having no relevant impact on the evaluation process, the application may
nevertheless be admitted.
V.1.1. On the CV Assessment the merit of the candidates will only be assessed based on their experience
in the disciplinary areas or sub-area for which the tender is open, according to the selection criteria and
evaluation parameters described in this Public Notice (IV.2.). The candidates’ background in other areas
shall not therefore be taken into consideration by the Selection Committee. The ranking of the candidates
shall be based on the methods described below in section VI, up to the number of the approved candidates
according to the terms above herein IV.4. All candidates falling outside this number shall be deemed
excluded.
V.1.2. Candidates both excluded and admitted to the Public Hearing shall be notified by Public Notice,
under the terms mentioned below in section VII.
V.2. Assessment meeting and final ranking of the candidates
V.2.1. In the second meeting, the Selection Committee proceeds to apply the selection criteria, followed
by the candidates’ ranking and the drafting of the final deliberation.
If the Public Hearing is to take place, the Selection Committee shall conduct it by assessing the candidates
based on the selection criteria and evaluation parameters mentioned above herein IV.2., with regard to
their merit only and relevant research background in the disciplinary areas or sub-area for which the
tender is open. The Public Hearing of each candidate shall have the maximum duration of one hour.
However, the Chairman of the Selection Committee may decide to extend it further for a period of 30
minutes. The Public Hearing is conducted by the Chairman of the Selection Committee, without prejudice
to other members of the Selection Committee also interacting with the candidate upon decision of the
Chairman. This hearing shall be held in Portuguese, unless the candidate or any members of the Selection
Committee are not proficient in that language. In this case, it may be conducted in English, upon decision
of the Chairman. Failing to attend the Public Hearing shall result in the exclusion of the procedure.
Similarly, candidates failing to attend a duly scheduled conference call shall also be deemed excluded.
If the decision is not to hold the Public Hearing, the jury applies the CV Assessment selection method to
the candidates, based on the selection criteria and evaluation parameters mentioned above herein IV.2.
At this stage, the merit of the candidates will only be assessed based on their experience in the disciplinary
areas or sub-area for which the tender is open, according to the selection criteria and evaluation
parameters described in this public notice. The candidates’ background in other areas shall not therefore
be taken into consideration by the Selection Committee. The ranking of the candidates shall be based on
the methods described below in section VI.
V.2.2. In view of the final score of the candidates given by each member of the jury, obtained in
accordance with point IV.3. of this Public Notice, the jury carries out an overall qualitative assessment of
the absolute merit of the candidates admitted to this phase of the selection process.
V.2.3. Candidates are approved on absolute merit if, based on reasons, the majority of the jury members
present at the meeting consider that they can contribute to the UC having a global level activity, under

the terms set out in article 19 of the RRCPDUC taking this assessment also taking into account the selection
criteria and evaluation parameters indicated in point IV.2., considered qualitatively.
V.2.4. The Selection Committee finally ranks the candidates approved on absolute merit, based on the
methodology described under VI, proceeding to the drafting of the final deliberation.
V.2.5. The position will not be filled if the Selection Committee decides that none of the candidates fulfils
the requirements established in this Public Notice.
V.2.6. Candidates will be notified of the draft final decision, which contains the list with the proposed
ranking of successful candidates, as well as the list of unsuccessful candidates, in accordance with point
VII of this notice.
V.3. If any of the candidates exercises their right to be heard, the Selection Committee shall hold a third
meeting, in order to analyze the request, and the candidates will be notified of its deliberations, under the
terms of section VII.
V.3.1. If the Selection Committee finds such allegations well founded, it shall proceed according to its
deliberations, thereby notifying the candidates under the terms of VII.3.
V.3.2. If the Selection Committee finds such allegations unfounded, following the candidates’ notification
under the terms of V.II.3. herein, the procedure shall then be submitted to the Rector’s approval.
V.4. All candidates will be notified regarding the approval decision under the terms of section VII. herein.
The administrative records of the tender may be consulted by the candidates, upon previous appointment,
requested by e-mail sent to the Human Resources Management Service's e-mail address: sgrh@uc.pt.
VI – Ranking and voting methods:
VI.1. After the debate on the candidates towards establishing a final deliberation about the ranking, each
member of the Selection Committee will present a written document, which will be attached to the meeting
minutes with their individual ranking proposal, based on the selection criteria and evaluation parameters
stated in this Public Notice. Throughout the various vote rounds, each member of the Selection Committee
must respect their proposed rankings.
VI.2. The first vote round is intended to select the candidate to be ranked in the first place. If a candidate
obtains more than half of the votes, they shall be placed in the first position. If this is not the case,
candidates with no votes shall be eliminated, as well as the candidate with the least votes, provided the
latter obtained at least one vote. In the event of more than one candidate being placed in the last position
with only one vote, there shall be a vote to decide whom to eliminate. In this vote round, committee
members shall vote on the candidate who had the lowest score according to their individual ranking, and
the candidate who obtains the most votes shall be eliminated. If a tie persists between two or more
candidates, the Selection Committee Chair shall decide which candidate should be eliminated. After this
process, the Selection Committee shall vote on the ranking of the remaining candidates. This process is
repeated until one of the candidates obtains more than half of the votes for the first place.
VI.3. The candidate placed in the first position shall then be excluded from the next vote round, which
shall decide the second place. This process shall be consecutively repeated until all approved candidates
are ranked.

VI.4. During the voting of the Selection Committee abstentions are not allowed.
VII — Notification of candidates
VII.1. All acts of the procedure are published on the Apply UC electronic platform during the course of
the procedure. The candidates are notified by public notice of the following acts: the list of approved and
excluded candidates; in the event of Public Hearing, the time, place and identification of the candidates
admitted to this selection method, as well as, among these, the identification of the candidates to whom
the President of the Jury has approved the provision of evidence via teleconference; the draft final decision
of the tender; decisions regarding possible allegations made by candidates; the final result of the tender,
after approval. The Public Hearing, to be held, will take place 02/06/2025.
VII.2. If the Public Hearing date stated in the previous point cannot be met, the new date will be published
in the notice confirming that it will take place and indicating the list of candidates admitted and excluded
to the Public Hearing.
VII.3. Notifications by notice provided for in point VII.1. are made by publication on the Apply UC
electronic platform, in accordance with paragraph d) of number 1 of article 112 of the CPA and article 63
of the RRCPDUC, producing their effects in accordance with article 113 of the CPA.
VII.4. Candidates may, if they so wish, within 10 working days, appeal the decision of the Committee, in
due respect for their right to a fair hearing, under the terms of article 121 of the Code of Administrative
Procedure (CPA). The time limit begins on the day following notification of the candidates, under the terms
of article 87 of the CPA.
VII.5. The entire tender records may be consulted by candidates, upon previous appointment, requested
by e-mail sent to the Human Resources Management Service's e-mail address: sgrh@uc.pt.
VIII – Selection Committee:
Chairman: Edmundo Heitor da Silva Monteiro, Full Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Sciences and
Technology of University of Coimbra
Committee members:
Pedro José Gonçalves Ribeiro, Associate Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon;
Eduardo Filipe Vieira de Castro, Associate Professor, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto;
Zeila Zanolli, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science,
University of Utrecht;
Myrta Grüning, Associate Professor (“Reader”), School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen’s University,
Belfast;
José António de Carvalho Paixão, Full Professor, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of
Coimbra;
Fernando Manuel da Silva Nogueira, Associate Professor, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University
of Coimbra.

In the event of absences or impediments of the Chairman he/she shall be replaced by Luís José Proença
de Figueiredo Neves, Full Professor and Vice-Rector of the University of Coimbra whom shall be replaced,
likewise, by the Committee member José António de Carvalho Paixão, Full Professor, Faculty of Sciences
and Technology, University of Coimbra .
This Public Notice will be published in Portuguese in Diário da República, 2nd Series, and on the website
Bolsa de Emprego Público (Governmental Public Employment Portal), as well as in both Portuguese and
English at Apply UC (apply.uc.pt) and on the EURAXESS Portugal Portal, at https://www.euraxess.pt/.
Pursuant to subparagraph h) of Article 9 of the Portuguese Constitution, the University of Coimbra, as
employer, actively promotes a policy of equal opportunities between men and women in access to
employment and professional development and takes action to prevent each and every kind of
discrimination, and encouraging underrepresented minorities in each area to apply.
Therefore, no one can be privileged, benefited, harmed or deprived of any right or immune from any duty
on account of, in particular, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, family, economic
situation, education, origin or social condition, genetic heritage, reduced work capacity, disability, chronic
illness, nationality, ethnic or racial origin, territory of origin, language, religion, political or ideological
beliefs and trade union membership.
The University of Coimbra also promotes measures to facilitate worklife balance, recognizing the efforts of
workers and promoting motivation.
To the current tender shall apply PhD researchers who perform or have performed functions in the
University of Coimbra in the scientific area(s) of this tender and are covered by the transitional regime
provided in Decree-Law nr. 57/2016, of 29th august, in its latest version, as well as further applicable
legislation.
Paço das Escolas,
The Rector, Amílcar FalcãO