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Universidade do Porto

PUBLIC NOTICE n.º 1195/2025

Doctor José Manuel Pereira Dias de Castro Lopes, Full Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Vice-Rector of this University:

Following my Order issued on May 20, 2025, by delegated power under Ordinance no. 9493/2022 published in the Official Gazette (Diário da República), 2nd series, no. 148 of 02 August, and for a period of 30 working days from the working day immediately following publication of this notice in the Diário da República a call for applications is published for one position of an Assistant Professor in the disciplinary area of Informatics Engineering at the Department of Informatics Engineering (DEI) of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.

1. Legal dispositions

Articles 37º to 51º and 62º-A, of the ECDU “Estatuto da Carreira Docente Universitária”, republished by the Decree-Law no. 205/2009, of August 31 and modified by the Law no. 8/2010, of May 13, and “Regulation on Competition for the Recruitment of Full, Associate and Assistant Professors of the University of Porto” – Decision no. 12913/2010, published in “Diário da República”, no. 154, of August 10, and the Deliberation no. 380/2019 published in “Diário da República”, no. 64, of April 1.

2. Funding

This call is open under the FCT-Tenure Program – 1st Edition, published through the Call for Applications Notice (AAC) with reference Investment C06-i06 – Science and Capacity Building, PRR Notice No. 02/C06-i06/2024 (application reference 2023.11089.TENURE.055).

3. Characterisation of the Job

3.1. Scientific Area(s): Computing Systems and Architectures (ASC).

3.2. Disciplinary Area(s): Informatics Engineering

3.3. Category: Assistant Professor

3.4. Number of Positions: 1

3.5. Remuneration: Scale 1, index 195 of the category of Assistant Professor

3.6. Job Description:

The Assistant Professor will be responsible for carrying out the duties set out in Article 4 and Article 5(3) of of the ECDU, namely, and under the terms of the application best identified in point 2 of this notice:

Carry out research, teaching and university extension activities in the disciplinary area to which the competition relates and in particular in the scientific sub-area of Architectures and Computational Systems (ASC) of the DEI*, especially in topics related to Cyber-Physical Systems Systems and Edge Computing.

Carry out research activities namely in software engineering based on models, middleware, tools, and techniques, in the context of Cyber-Physical Systems (Systems) and Edge Computing, with an emphasis on reliable computing, autonomous computing, offloading and energy efficiency.

Strengthen the DEI's training programmes in Cyber-Physical Systems and Edge Computing.

Research activities will be carried out at SYSTEC - Centre for Systems and Technologies.

4. Administrative admission requirements to the competition

According to Article 41º-A of the ECDU, only those who hold the degree of Doctor may be admitted to this competition.

Holders of academic degrees awarded by foreign higher education institutions must hold a recognised doctoral degree under the terms of Decree-Law no. 66/2018, of 16 August, in its current wording, by the date of expiry of the deadline for the signing of the contract.

5. Approval on absolute merit

5.1. If there are no fundaments for rejecting the applications, the Jury will deliberate on their approval or non-approval on absolute merit, by justified nominal vote, abstentions not being accepted.

5.2. The candidate is approved on absolute merit if he/she is approved by an absolute majority of the voting jury members.

5.3 - Candidates will be approved on absolute merit if they have an overall curriculum that the jury considers to be of scientific and pedagogical merit, capacity for research and activity, compatible with the subject area for which the competition was opened and appropriate to the respective teaching category, as documented in the respective information submitted to the competition.

The merit approval of a candidate will depend on the cumulative fulfillment of the following requirements:

a) holding a Ph.D. degree in the area of Informatics Engineering or another scientific area deemed appropriate, considering the scientific subareas* of the Department of Informatics Engineering (DEI) of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), and especially in topics related to cyber-physical systems and edge computing.

b) having conducted high-quality, significant, research activities in the Computing Systems and Architectures (ASC, “Arquitectura e Sistemas Computacionais”) scientific subarea* of DEI, with preference in topics related to cyber-physical systems and edge computing, during the 5 years’ period immediately before the date of this public notice.

c) having a selected set of high-quality scientific publications (as required in 6.3.1), preferably as the first author, providing evidence of the candidate’s capability to publish in journals/conferences of reference (e.g., IEEE/ACM Transactions, Elsevier/Springer SCImago SJR Q1, CORE Ranking A*/A conferences) in topics related to cyber-physical systems and edge computing.

The 5 (five) year period referred to in point c) may be extended by the jury, at the request of the candidate, when based on suspension of scientific activity for socially protected reasons, exclusively for reasons of parental leave. The extension will be one year per birth during the 5 (five) year period, and the candidate must provide a birth certificate of each child or other official document establishing their link to the child.

(*Scientific subareas of DEI: https://sigarra.up.pt/feup/pt/UNI_GERAL.UNIDADE_VIEW?pv_unidade=151).

6. Evaluation and ranking on relative merit

Once the successful candidates have been definitively identified on absolute merit, they will be ranked on relative merit, based on the aspects and criteria for ranking, their respective weighting and final evaluation system, established in accordance with the provisions of article 50(6) of the ECDU and article 16 of the Regulation.

6.1 Assessment methodology

Candidates approved on absolute merit will be subject to a curriculum evaluation, which may be complemented by a public presentation hearing, to which candidates approved on absolute merit will be submitted, aimed at clarifying aspects related to the curriculum and the scientific-pedagogical programme, bearing in mind the general duties assigned to university lecturers by article 4 of the ECDU, focusing on the aspects and respective criteria identified below.

6.2. Assessment aspects

The assessment of the candidates will focus on the following aspects and Programme, with emphasis on curricular aspects in the disciplinary area for which the competition was opened, with a special focus on in the scientific sub-area of Architectures and Computational Systems (ASC) of the DEI*, especially on topics related to Cyber-Physical Systems and Edge Computing.

1. Scientific Merit (VMC) – 65%;
2. Pedagogical experience and merit (VEMP) – 12%;
3. Extension, economic, and social valorization of knowledge tasks (VTC) - 8%
4. Scientific and Pedagogical Program - (PCP) – 15%

6.3. Assessment criteria

The criteria to be taken into consideration when assessing each of the assessment and Project aspects identified in the previous point and the weighting to be given to each of them in the final classification are as follows:

6.3.1. Criteria for evaluation of Scientific Merit (VMC) – 65%

Quality and quantity of scientific production (books, journal articles, conference proceedings publications…), expressed by the type of publications and by their scientific community recognition (expressed by the quality of the journals and venues, and by the number of citations by other authors, thereby excluding self-citations) regarding the following sets of scientific publications:

• Quality and relevance of 5 (five) scientific papers mentioned in the candidate’s curriculum vitae, published in the last 5 (five) years that the candidates consider the most representative of his/her research activities.

• Quality and relevance of 5 (five) scientific papers mentioned in the candidate’s curriculum vitae, published throughout his/her career, that the candidates consider the most representative of his/her research activities.

For each of these contributions, the candidates must present a summary justifying its international scientific importance and a description of the candidate's contributions.

Special emphasis will be given to publications in international A* or A (CORE ranking) conferences and journals considered as references by the scientific community of Computing Systems and Architectures (ASC) DEI’s scientific subarea*. Special emphasis will be given to publications in ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) or IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) conferences and journals – with emphasis on ACM Transactions and IEEE Transactions. It will be given preference to relevant journal and conference publications and to contributions to the development of the area of this call, particularly in the Computing Systems and Architectures (ASC) scientific subarea, and especially in the topics related to cyber-physical systems and edge computing.

The applications must also include:

- A description of the applicant’s publication strategy and practices in terms of venues (conferences, workshops, and journals);

- The identification of the applicant’s prior published work in conferences/workshops and its subsequent extensions to journal articles;

- The identification of the practices followed by the relevant scientific community regarding the ordering of the authors in the publications.

- The identification for each publication of the respective CORE ranking (conferences) and SCImago (SJR) (journals), if they exist.

CMC2 – Coordination and implementation of research projects Quality of a maximum of 5 (five) scientific projects funded on a competitive basis by national or international agencies or companies in which the candidate participated (indicating their role in the project), as well as quality and impact of their results. Relevance will be given to the role of project coordination.

Project quality will be assessed based on their scope (international, bilateral, or national), size, funding level, call requirements, assessment results, and implemented prototypes, especially those leading to commercial products or services.

CMC3– Involvement in the scientific and professional communities

Ability to engage in scientific and professional communities – expressed in particular through the involvement in scientific journals (e.g., as Editor, Associate, or Guest Editor), in the organization of international conferences, in service to the academic community, in the participation in scientific and technical committees of international conferences –, being invited speaker, participating in juries outside the home academic institution, or receiving prizes and awards.

6.3.2. Criteria for evaluation of the Teaching Experience and Pedagogic Merit dimension (VEMP) – 12%

CEMP1 – Pedagogical projects Promotion of new pedagogical projects (e.g., development, creation, and coordination of new courses or study programs), modification and improvement of existing projects (e.g., reformulation of existing courses, participation in the reorganization of existing courses or programs), development of projects with impact on the teaching/ learning process and participation on accreditation and certification processes. Evidence of the link between teaching and research includes engaging undergraduates in research activities and involving graduate students in research projects.

In the evaluation of the quality, a special emphasis on the quality, relevance, and contributions related to a maximum of 5 (five) pedagogical projects, which the candidates consider more representative. For each of these projects, the candidates must describe their principal contributions, roles and executed tasks.

CEMP2 – Production of teaching materials

Quality and quantity of teaching materials produced by the candidate, in particular in the form of books, as well as publications of an educational nature in prestigious journals or at top-level international conferences.

In the evaluation of the quality, a special emphasis on the quality, relevance, and contributions related to a maximum of 5 (five) teaching contributions, which the candidates consider more representative. For each of these contributions, the candidates must describe their principal contributions, roles and executed tasks.

CEMP3 – Teaching activity Quality of teaching activities undertaken by the candidate, whenever possible, measured through objective methods based on the results of extensive feedback collection (e.g., student surveys).

In the evaluation of the quality, a special emphasis on the quality, relevance, and contributions related to a maximum of 5 (five) teaching courses (curricular units), which the candidates consider more representative. For each of these courses, the candidates must describe their principal contributions and executed tasks and include an analysis of the results obtained and of the student surveys.

6.3.3. Criteria for evaluation of the Tasks of Outreach and Economic and Social Enhancement of knowledge dimension (VTC) – 8%

Quality, relevance, and contributions related to a maximum of 5 (five) most representative outreach projects/works/activities of economic and social enhancement of knowledge in his/her curriculum vitae. For each contribution, the candidates must describe its national/international relevance and his/her main contributions. The evaluation must consider the alignment that those projects/works/activities may have with the Computing Systems and Architectures (ASC) scientific subarea, and especially in the topics related to cyber-physical systems and edge computing.

CTC1 – Patents, intellectual property rights, and development of technical standards and regulations Authorship and co-authorship of patents, registration of ownership of intellectual property rights on methodologies, software, algorithms, computational and mathematical methods.

Participation in the development of technical standards and regulations.

CTC2 – Consulting and contracts development

Coordination and participation in consulting activities and/or activities of study and development involving the business community and the public sector. The candidates must emphasize the scientific and technological aspects involved in these activities.

Participation as an expert in evaluation committees of research and technological development projects in businesses and/or in scientific and technological system bodies.

Coordination and participation as a trainer in professional training courses or technological specialization aimed at businesses or the public sector.

The evaluation of this criterion should consider the economic value of the research outcomes, measured by its contribution to new contracts for technology development and transfer and to the creation of spin-off companies.

CTC3 – Dissemination of science and technology Coordination and participation in initiatives for promoting science and technology among the scientific community (e.g., organization of conferences) and various audiences. Publications for science and technology dissemination.

6.3.4. Criteria for evaluation of the Scientific, Pedagogic and Outreaching Program (PCP) – 15%

Scientific, Pedagogic, and Outreaching Program, focused on a 5 (five) year period, in the specific Computing Systems and Architectures (ASC) scientific subarea of DEI, and especially in the topics related to cyber-physical systems and edge computing, and the respective means for implementing it.

The program will be evaluated according to its consistency, feasibility, impact, and alignment to this call, in each of the following dimensions.

CPD1 –Program for the development of scientific activity

CPD2 - Program for the development of pedagogical activity

CPD3 – Program for the development of the university outreach activity

7. Working methodology of the Jury

7.1. Scoring the candidates

Each member of the jury will carry out an evaluation exercise, scoring each candidate for each assessment aspect on a scale of 0 to 100 points, rounded up to the nearest tenth, considering the criteria approved for each assessment aspect and program, with a degree of demand appropriate to the category for which the competition is open.

7.2. Public hearing

The Jury can hold a public hearing, under equal circumstances, for all candidates who have passed the competition on absolute merit to personally clarify the evaluation elements contained in the documentation they have submitted.

If it is necessary to hold these public hearings, they will take place between the 30th and 70th day following the deadline for submitting applications, and all candidates will be informed by email at least ten working days in advance of the date and place where these public hearings will take place.

7.3. Final result

The Final Result (RF) of the assessment of each candidate by each member of the jury is calculated using the formula for weighting the various curricular aspects:

RF= (0.65*VMC) + (0.12*VEMP) + (0.08*VTC) + (0.15*VPCP)

which reflects the weights associated with each aspect.

Following the reasoned individual assessment, each member of the jury draws up their ranked list of candidates, with which they participate in the votes that lead to the decision and the final ranking of the candidates under the terms of point 6, and it is not possible for there to be a tie between candidates in the final ranking.

7.4 Deliberations of the Jury

7.4.1. Any deliberations will be the result of Article 17º, no. 12, of the Regulations for Competitions for the Recruitment of Full, Associate and Assistant Professors of the University of Porto, applicable under Article 83º-A of the ECDU, which determined the approval of the same to implement the rules of that legal diploma, covering the procedural process of the competitions, namely the system of evaluation and final classification. Therefore, under the terms of Article 17º, no. 12 of the aforementioned Regulation, the Jury will decide by roll call vote based on the selection criteria adopted and publicized for the approval and ranking of candidates, with an absolute majority required for any decision, and abstentions are not permitted.

7.4.2.Ranking methodology

In the various votes, each member of the Jury must respect their ranking list, observing the following in the votes:

1. the first vote is intended to determine the candidate in 1st place, counting the number of votes each candidate received for that position;
2. if a candidate obtains an absolute majority of the votes for 1st place, they are placed in that position and removed from the ballot, and the procedure for choosing the candidate who will take 2nd place begins;
3. if no candidate obtains an absolute majority of the votes for 1st place, a new ballot begins, only among the candidates who obtained votes for 1st place, after the candidate who received the least votes for that place in the previous ballot has been removed;
4. in the event of a tie between two or more candidates for the position of least voted, a tie-breaking vote is held between them only, counting the number of relative first positions for each, and the least voted candidate is removed;
5. if there is still a tie between two or more candidates in the least voted position, but the number of tied candidates in the least voted position has been reduced compared to the previous round of voting, a new tie-breaking vote is held between the tied candidates in the least voted position only, counting the number of relative first positions of each, and the least voted is removed;
6. in the event of a tie between two or more candidates in the least-voted position, without the number of candidates tied for the least-voted position having been reduced compared to the previous round of voting, the tie-breaker is made by the Chairman's casting vote or by exercising the casting vote, as the case may be, and the candidate voted for by the Chairman is chosen to take part in the subsequent vote for the same position;
7. in the event of a tie when there are only two or more candidates left for 1st place, the tie-breaker is the Chairman's casting vote or the casting vote, as the case may be;
8. if the candidate for 1st place is chosen, he or she is removed from the ballot, and the procedure for selecting the candidate for 2nd place begins, and the process referred to in the previous paragraphs is repeated for the subsequent places until a single ordered list of all the candidates is obtained.

8. Submission of applications

8.1. Submission of applications

Applications must be submitted exclusively on the FEUP’s website, at the following address: https://sigarra.up.pt/feup/pt/CNT_CAND_GERAL.CONCURSOS_LIST, by the deadline.

8.2. Application instructions:

Applications must be accompanied by the following documents, under penalty of exclusion:

1. Application form (personal details and declarations), fully completed, dated and signed, in accordance with the compulsory form available at https://sigarra.up.pt/up/pt/conteudos_geral.ver?pct_pag_id=1004282&pct_parametros=p_pagina=1004282&pct_grupo=3123&pct_grupo=2013&pct_grupo=2015&pct_grupo=2461#2461;
2. PhD certificate, except for cases corresponding to obtaining a PhD from the University of Porto. Applicants who are selected for the post(s) to be filled and hold a doctoral degree obtained abroad must present the 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 16 August, under penalty of exclusion;
3. c) Curriculum Vitae containing all the relevant information for assessing the application, as well as demonstrating compliance with the criteria set out in point 5 of this notice, considering the assessment and ranking criteria set out in point 6 of this notice for the assessment strands and parameters. Candidates must structure their Curriculum Vitae in such a way as to facilitate the rapid and complete identification of their contributions, and attach the sections that clearly identify the sets of contributions/activities/projects requested in point 6 of this notice;;
4. Work mentioned in the curriculum vitae submitted to prove the requirements of point 5 and to assess the criteria set out in point 6 of this notice;

e) File with the scientific/pedagogical and outreach programme. The document must not exceed 10 A4 pages (Times or Times New Roman font, minimum 10-point font), with the exception of the references section, and will be assessed in the PCP section.

8.3. Each document listed in d) of point 8.2 of this notice must be submitted in an individual file and in full in the Sigarra system. The documents can be integrated into folders with a compressed format (zip, rar, 7z). However, it is necessary to consider the system's limit for uploading, which is set at a maximum of 720 MB per file or compressed folder. Each application can submit several compressed files or folders, each with a limit of 720 MB, and the total number of compressed files/folders submitted is not limited.

8.4. To access applications, any documents that can be accessed via links will not be considered, except those that refer to publications with a DOI.

8.5. The documents mentioned in point 8.2. must preferably be submitted in a non-editable format.

8.6. Failure to comply with point 8.1. will result in the application being rejected.

8.7. Failure to submit or submit after the deadline of the documents referred to in points a) to e) of paragraph 8.2. will result in the application not being accepted.

9. Notification and hearing of interested parties

9.1. The Human Resources Department of the University of Porto's Common Resources and Services Centre will notify candidates of the order admitting or not admitting them to the competition, which will be based on compliance or non-compliance with the requirements laid down in the legislation in force and in no. 4 of this notice, and with the conditions established regarding the application form referred to in no. 8.2.

9.2. Candidates who have not been admitted administratively, those who have not been approved on absolute merit, and candidates ranked in a position on the list of candidates who cannot be filled for the post in the competition will be given a hearing under the terms of Articles 121º and 122º of the Code of Administrative Procedure. All candidates will be notified of the Jury’s final decision.

9.3. Notifications are made by email, in accordance with Articles 112.º, no. 1, al. c) and 113.º, no. 5 and no. 6 of the CPA.

Candidates have ten working days to submit their written comments.

10. Composition of the Jury

Chairman:

Doctor Rui Artur Bártolo Calçada, Director and Full Professor of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, in the use of delegated competence by order no. 4953/2025, published in the Diário da República, 2nd series, no. 80 of April 24.

Members:

Doctor José Carlos Alves Pereira Monteiro, Full Professor of the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon;

Doctor Susana Isabel Barreto de Miranda Sargento, Full Professor of the Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics of the University of Aveiro;

Doctor Estela Guerreiro da Silva Bicho Erlhagen, Full Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho;

Doctor João Manuel Paiva Cardoso, Full Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto;

Doctor Pedro Nuno Ferreira da Rosa da Cruz Diniz, Full Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.

11. Other provisions

Joint Order no. 373/2000 of 31 March, issued by the Minister for State Reform and Public Administration and the Minister for Equality, stipulates that the following must be mentioned in entry and access competitions:

"In fulfillment of point 9 of Article 9 of the Constitution, the Public Administration, as an employer, actively promotes a policy of equal opportunities for men and women in access to employment and professional advancement, taking scrupulous care to avoid any form of discrimination."

In this sense, the terms "candidate(s)", "teacher(s)" and the like are not used in this notice to refer to people's gender.

Likewise, no candidate may be favored, benefited, disadvantaged, or deprived of any right or exempted from any duty on the grounds of ancestry, age, sexual orientation, marital status, family situation, economic situation, education, social origin or condition, genetic heritage, reduced working capacity, disability, chronic illness, nationality, ethnic origin or race, the territory of origin, language, religion, political or ideological convictions, and trade union membership.

The Vice-Rector, ProfessorJosé Manuel Pereira Dias de Castro Lopes, 20 of May of 2025.