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Doctor Maria de Fátima de Sousa Basto Vieira, Full Professor of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Vice-Rector of the same University:

I hereby announce that, by my order of July 21, 2025, using competence delegated by Order No. 9493/2022, published in the Official Gazette, 2nd series, No. 148 of August 2, for a period of 30 (thirty) working days from the day immediately following the publication of this public notice in the Official Gazette, a documentary competition is opened for the recruitment of one associate professor for the position with reference 2023.13694.TENURE.028 (Associate Professor in Internal Medicine) which is part of the program-contract between the Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. (FCT, I.P.) and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP), concluded under the Scientific Employment Regulation, Regulation No. 607-A/2017 amended and republished by regulation No. 1083/2023, published in the 2nd series of the Official Gazette of October 12, 2023, within the scope of the FCT-Tenure program – 1st Edition.

In accordance with paragraph j), No. 1 of clause 3 of the aforementioned program-contract:

Job Title: Associate Professor in Internal Medicine

Job category: Associate Professor

Scientific Domain: Medical and Health Sciences

Scientific Area: Clinical Medicine

Scientific Sub-area: Internal Medicine

Field(s) description: Physiology; Cardiac and Cardiovascular System; Neurovascular Medicine; Inborn Errors of Metabolism

1 - Applicable Legal Provisions

This competition is opened under the provisions of:

• Articles 37 to 51, 61 and 62-A of the University Teaching Career Statute (ECDU), republished by Decree-Law No. 205/2009, of August 31, and amended by Law No. 8/2010, of May 13;
• Regulation of Competitions for Recruitment of Full, Associate and Assistant Professors of the University of Porto (abbreviated as Regulation), approved by Order No. 12913/2010, published in the Official Gazette, 2nd series, No. 154, of August 10, amended by Deliberation (extract) No. 380/2019, published in the Official Gazette, 2nd series, No. 64, of April 1;
• Disciplinary and scientific areas of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, approved by Order No. 7793/2022, of June 1, published in the Official Gazette, 2nd series, No. 121, of June 1, 2022, corrected by Correction Statement No. 450/2023, published in the Official Gazette, 2nd series, No. 117, of June 19, 2023, and by other applicable legislation, namely:
• Administrative Procedure Code, approved by Decree-Law No. 4/2015, of January 7, in its current wording, hereinafter referred to as CPA.
• Regulation (EU) 2021/241 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of February 12, 2021, which creates the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism.
• Council Implementation Decision No. 13351/23 of October 17, 2023, which amends the Implementation Decision of July 13, 2021, regarding the approval of the evaluation of Portugal's recovery and resilience plan.
• Decree-Law No. 63/2019 of May 16, the National Science and Technology System (SNCT);
• Program-Contract "Institutional Support Competition Procedure – FCT Tenure 1st Edition, concluded between the Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto", on February 10, 2025.

2 - Administrative Admission Requirements

Administrative admission to the competition depends on fulfilling the following requirement: Hold a doctoral degree in Medicine obtained through a medical school more than five years ago, counted until the day before the application submission deadline, in accordance with article 40 of the University Teaching Career Statute (ECDU).

If the doctorate was conferred by a foreign higher education institution, it must be recognized by a Portuguese higher education institution, under the terms set forth in Decree-Law No. 66/2018, published in the Official Gazette, 1st series, No. 157, of August 16. This formality must be completed by the time of contract signing.

3 - Approval on Absolute Merit

3.1 In the absence of grounds for rejection of applications, the Jury will deliberate on their approval or non-approval on absolute merit, by justified nominal vote, with abstentions not being admitted.

3.2 A candidate is considered approved on absolute merit if approved by absolute majority of the voting jury members.

3.3 Approval on absolute merit of candidates depends on possessing an overall curriculum that the jury considers to have scientific and pedagogical merit, research capacity and developed activity, compatible with the scientific domain Medical and Health Sciences, scientific area Clinical Medicine and scientific sub-area Internal Medicine, within the disciplinary areas of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences and Internal Medicine and adequate to the category of associate professor, as documented in the information submitted to the competition.

3.4 For the purposes of the evaluation referred to in the previous point, the reasoned approval on absolute merit of candidates will depend on meeting the following criteria:

3.4.1 Hold a Degree or Integrated Master's in Medicine.

3.4.2 Hold a Doctoral Degree in Medicine.

3.4.3 Hold the degree of Specialist and Consultant in Internal Medicine.

3.4.4 Have at least one of the following criteria (a or b):

a) Publication of at least 14 scientific articles in journals indexed by Web of Science Core Collection (WoS CC) and with impact factor in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) or indexed by Scopus and with SCImago Journal Rank Indicator (SJR), being:

i) first or last author in at least 7;

ii) and at least 7 situated up to the 50th percentile of the disciplinary area(s), having as reference the impact factor of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) or the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) of SCImago Journal & Country Rank. The percentile should refer to the year of publication of the article or, if not available, to the last available year before its publication.

b) The number of citations of their articles and other works, as first or last author, must be greater than 250, having as reference the number of citations in SCOPUS and the total H-index must be greater than 8.

3.4.5 Preparation and coordination of scientific projects, as principal investigator.

3.4.6 Responsibilities in postgraduate training with completed supervision/co-supervision of at least 1 PhD student and at least 4 Master's/Integrated Master's students. The absence of Master's supervisions can be compensated with another completed PhD supervision.

4 - Evaluation and Ranking on Relative Merit

Once the candidates approved on absolute merit are definitively identified, they proceed to their ordering on relative merit, based on the aspects and ranking criteria, respective weighting and final evaluation system, which are discriminated below, established in accordance with the provisions of No. 6 of article 50 of the ECDU and article 14 of the Regulation without prejudice to the minimums identified in the paragraphs of point 3.4 of this public notice, if applicable.

4.1 - Methodology and Evaluation Aspects

Candidates approved on absolute merit are subject to curricular evaluation, taking into account the general functions assigned to university teachers provided for in article 4 of the ECDU, focusing on the following aspects and program, and should highlight the following curricular aspects in the disciplinary areas of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences and Internal Medicine:

a) Scientific Merit (VMC) - 35%

b) Pedagogical Merit (VMP) - 20%

c) University Extension Tasks and Economic and Social Valorization of Knowledge (VTC) - 5%

d) University Management (VGU) - 5%

e) Clinical Activity (VAC) - 15%

f) Scientific/Pedagogical and Extension Program (VPCPE) - 20%

4.2 - Evaluation Criteria

The criteria to be considered in the evaluation of each of the evaluation aspects and project, identified in the previous point, and the weighting to be attributed to each of them in the final classification are those discriminated below:

4.2.1 - Criteria for evaluating Scientific Merit (VMC) - 35%

4.2.1.1 - Scientific production (60%) - the evaluation of this parameter should take into account the quality and quantity of scientific production (full articles, books, conference communications) expressed by the number and type of publications, by the recognition given to it by the scientific community (translated into the quality of publication venues and the references made to it by other authors) and, when applicable, by the capacity for translation of achieved research results. Quality and quantity of scientific production should be measured taking into account the following parameters: full scientific production in journals indexed in WoS CC or Scopus weighted by the quartile classification of JCR or SJR of the journals, respectively; citations from WoS CC or Scopus; H-index of publications (h5-index) in WoS CC or Scopus; other scientific production, namely, full articles in books of conference proceedings indexed in WoSCC or Scopus, publications in journals not indexed in WoS CC or Scopus, conference communications, books and book chapters.

4.2.1.2 - Scientific intervention (40%) - the evaluation of this parameter should take into account the quality, quantity and funding of scientific projects in which they participated and the results obtained in them, giving relevance to project coordination; in quality evaluation, attention should be paid to the type of funding obtained for the project, that is, whether there was evaluation of the application and which entity was responsible for the evaluation; the capacity to generate and organize scientific teams and conduct postgraduate projects, highlighting the supervision/co-supervision of post-doctoral, doctoral and master's students; the capacity for intervention in the scientific community, expressed through the organization of events, collaboration in journal editing, presentation of invited lectures, participation in academic juries, etc., with particular emphasis on intervention at the international level; national and international mobility in the practice of scientific research, measured by the following parameters: coordination and implementation of national and international scientific projects; volume of funding obtained as principal investigator, weighted by type of funding (industry, FCT/Portuguese State, European Commission, international, other); creation and organization of scientific groups, in research unit, in research projects, postgraduate projects, others; participation in scientific teams of funded projects; organization of scientific events; participation in editorial or management bodies of journals; review of articles in scientific journals; lectures and communications presented by invitation; participations in academic juries; scientific research projects in mobility.

4.2.2 - Criteria for evaluating Pedagogical Merit (VEMP) - 20%

4.2.2.1 - In the evaluation of candidates' pedagogical merit, the following will be considered: the capacity to coordinate and promote new pedagogical projects, to reform or improve existing projects and to carry out projects with impact on the teaching/learning process, as well as the quality of service provided in undergraduate and postgraduate training, the pedagogical material produced, publications or conferences of a pedagogical nature, intervention in the coordination of the institution's pedagogical activity and the capacity to create and intervene in training actions outside the Institution itself, including the dissemination of medical science to the community. This parameter will be measured by: creation and participation in the creation of new curricular units, weighted by the average volume of students per edition; creation and participation in the creation of new courses or study programs, weighted by the average volume of tuition fees per edition; reformulation of existing curricular units; reformulation of existing courses or study programs; quality of pedagogical performance, measured through the results of pedagogical surveys; pedagogical coordination, namely, coordinator of curricular units and participation in pedagogical management bodies; pedagogical production, namely, pedagogical material produced, publications or conferences of a pedagogical nature (100%).

4.2.3 - Criteria for evaluating University Extension Tasks and Economic and Social Valorization of Knowledge (VTC) - 5%

4.2.3.1 - University Extension Tasks and Economic and Social Valorization of Knowledge, namely the creation of spin-off companies, patent registration, development of innovative technologies for clinical application, the quality, quantity and funding obtained with FMUP services to the community, in which they participated, as well as creating and intervening in community training actions, including the dissemination of science to the community (100%).

4.2.4 - Criteria for evaluating University Management (VGU) - 5%

4.2.4.1 - Participation in advisory or management bodies of FMUP and other institutions whose mission is relevant to the Faculty of Medicine and is considered in another aspect (100%).

4.2.5 - Criteria for evaluating Clinical Activity (VAC) - 15%

4.2.5.1 - Performance of duly proven clinical functions in the area in which the candidate teaches and researches, excluding the items evaluated in other aspects (100%).

4.2.6 - Criteria for evaluating Scientific/Pedagogical and Extension Program (VPCPE) - 20%

4.2.6.1 - Scientific/pedagogical and extension program (PCPE) that the candidate proposes to develop (scientific domain Medical and Health Sciences, scientific area Clinical Medicine and scientific sub-area Internal Medicine, within the disciplinary areas of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences and Internal Medicine) and which will be appreciated in light of the scientific, pedagogical and extension activities aspects, measured by the following parameters: degree of adequacy of the document structure, clarity and rigor of language according to the proposed objectives; degree of justification of the proposed activities through, namely, technical, scientific and/or university policy references relevant to the proposals in question; degree of originality and innovation of the scientific and pedagogical proposals presented.

5 - Jury Operating Mode

5.1 - Candidate Scoring

Each jury member makes their evaluative exercise, scoring each candidate in relation to each aspect and project, on a scale from 0 to 100 points, with rounding to tenths, taking into consideration the evaluation criteria approved and published in this public notice.

5.2 - Final Result

The Final Result (RF) of each candidate's evaluation by each jury member is calculated through the sum of classifications in each aspect, considering the respective weighting.

Following their evaluative exercise, each jury member constructs their ordered evaluation list of candidates, with which they participate in the votes that lead to the decision and final ordering of candidates in terms of point 4, with no possibility of ties between candidates in the final classification.

5.3 - Jury Deliberations

5.3.1

Any deliberation will result from article 17, No. 12, of the Regulation, applicable by force of article 83-A of the ECDU which determined its approval with a view to executing the norms of that legal diploma, covering the procedural processing of competitions, namely the evaluation system and final classification.

Consequently, under the terms of article 17, No. 12 of the referred Regulation, the jury will deliberate through nominal voting based on the selection criteria adopted and disclosed for the approval and ordering of candidates, with absolute majority being required for any deliberation, with abstentions not being permitted.

5.3.2 - Ranking Methodology

In the various votes, each jury member must respect their ordering list, observing the following in the votes:

a) The first vote is intended to determine the candidate placed in 1st place, counting the number of votes each candidate obtained for that place;

b) If a candidate obtains absolute majority of votes for 1st place, they are placed in the respective position and removed from scrutiny, initiating the procedure to choose the candidate who will occupy 2nd place;

c) If no candidate obtains absolute majority of votes for 1st place, a new scrutiny begins, only among candidates who obtained votes for 1st place, after removing the candidate with the fewest votes for that place in the previous vote;

d) If there is a tie between two or more candidates in the position of least voted, a tie-breaking vote is held only among these, counting the number of relative first positions of each, with the least voted being removed;

e) If the tie persists between two or more candidates in the position of least voted, but the number of candidates tied in the position of least voted has been reduced compared to the previous voting round, a new tie-breaking vote is held only among candidates tied in the position of least voted, counting the number of relative first positions of each, with the least voted being removed;

f) If the tie persists between two or more candidates in the position of least voted, without the number of candidates tied in the position of least voted having been reduced compared to the previous voting round, the tie-break is made through the President's casting vote or by exercising a tie-breaking vote, as the case may be, with the candidate voted by the President being chosen to integrate the subsequent vote for the same place;

g) If there is a tie when only two or more candidates remain for 1st place, the tie-break is made through the President's casting vote or by exercising the tie-breaking vote, as the case may be;

h) Once the candidate for 1st place is chosen, they leave the votes and the procedure for choosing the candidate to place in 2nd place begins, repeating the process referred to in the previous paragraphs for subsequent places until a single ordered list of all candidates is obtained.

6 - Application Submission

6.1 - Application Delivery

The application must be submitted exclusively on the FMUP website, at the following address https://sigarra.up.pt/fmup/pt/CNT_CAND_GERAL.CONCURSOS_LIST until the end of the deadline.

6.2 - Application Instructions

The application must be mandatorily accompanied by the following documents:

a) Application request (personal data and declarations), completely filled out, dated and signed, according to the mandatory use 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;

b) Certificate of Degree or Integrated Master's and certificate of Doctorate, except for cases corresponding to obtaining the degree at the University of Porto. The candidate who is selected for the position to be filled and holds a doctoral degree obtained abroad must present recognition or registration (as applicable) of their degree by the time of contract signing, under the terms of Decree-Law No. 66/2018, of August 16, under penalty of exclusion;

c) Document proving possession of the specialist and consultant degree;

d) Curriculum Vitae, in Portuguese or English, containing all information pertinent to the evaluation of the application, as well as for demonstrating compliance with the criteria set in point 3 of this public notice, as well as for evaluating the application taking into consideration the evaluation criteria contained in point 4.2 and including a listing with all scientific publications submitted within the scope of the application, specifying, for each of them, as well as in aggregate for the set: 1) whether it appears in the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS CC) database and/or the Scopus database; 2) if affirmative, whether it is in the first two quartiles of Journal Citation Reports and SCImago Journal Rank; 3) whether they are first or last author; 4) the number of citations in the Web of Science and Scopus databases; 5) the number of citations in the Web of Science and Scopus databases, of works of which they are first or last author;

e) One copy of each of the works mentioned in the presented curriculum, which allow verifying and evaluating the criteria contained in points 3.4 and 4.2 of this public notice. Additionally, candidates may highlight in the presented curriculum, up to ten of these works/activities, which they consider most representative of the activity developed by them, namely in the disciplinary area in which the competition is opened;

f) File containing the scientific/pedagogical and extension program proposal, prepared under the terms set forth in point 4.2.6.1.

6.3 Each of the documents indicated in paragraph e) of point 6.2 of the competition public notice must be submitted in an individual file and in full version in the Sigarra system. Documents can be integrated into folders with compressed format (zip, rar, 7z), however, it is necessary to consider the system limit for upload, which is set at a maximum of 720MB per file or compressed folder. Each application can submit multiple files or compressed folders, each with the 720 MB limit, with no limit on the total number of files/compressed folders submitted.

6.4 For the purposes of evaluating applications, no documents whose access is provided through links will be considered, except those that refer to publications with DOI.

6.5 The documents mentioned in point 6.2 should preferably be submitted in non-editable format.

6.6 Non-compliance with the provisions in 6.1 determines the exclusion of the application.

6.7 Failure to present or late presentation of the documents referred to in paragraphs a) to f) of No. 6.2 determines the non-admission of the application.

7 - Notifications and Hearing of Interested Parties

7.1 The Human Resources Service of the Center for Resources and Common Services of the University of Porto will notify candidates of the order for administrative admission or non-admission to the competition, which will be based on compliance or non-compliance with the requirements demanded in current legislation, the conditions established in No. 2 and in numbers 6.1 and 6.2 of this public notice.

7.2 There is a prior hearing, under the terms set forth in articles 121 and 122 of the Administrative Procedure Code, for candidates who have not been administratively admitted, candidates not approved on absolute merit and candidates ordered in a place on the candidate ordering list not capable of being filled in the job position in competition.

All candidates are notified of the homologation of the jury's final deliberation.

7.3 Notifications are made by email, under the terms of articles 112, No. 1, paragraph c) and 113, No. 5, of the CPA.

The deadline for candidates to respond, in writing, is ten working days.

8 - Jury Composition

President:

Professor Maria de Fátima de Sousa Basto Vieira, Vice-Rector of the University of Porto, using competence delegated by Order 9439/2022, published in the Official Gazette, 2nd series, No. 148, of August 2.

Members:

Doctor Anabela Mota Pinto, Full Professor, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra;

Doctor Lino Manuel Martins Gonçalves, Full Professor, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra;

Doctor Pedro Manuel Sarmento Rodrigues Povoa, Full Professor, Faculty of Medical Sciences/NOVA Medical School of the New University of Lisbon;

Doctor Joaquim Adelino Correia Ferreira Leite Moreira, Full Professor, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto;

Doctor Inês Maria Falcão Sousa Pires Marques, Full Professor, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto.

9 - Other Provisions

Joint Order 373/2000, of 31 March, of the Minister for State Reform and Public Administration and the Minister for Equality, determines the obligation in entry and access competitions to make the following mention:

"In compliance with paragraph h) of Article 9 of the Constitution, the Public Administration, as an employer, actively promotes a policy of equal opportunities between men and women in access to employment and professional progression, scrupulously providing to avoid any form of discrimination". In this sense, the terms "candidate(s)", "professor(s)" and other similar terms are not used in this public notice to refer to the gender of persons.

Similarly, no candidate may be privileged, benefited, prejudiced or deprived of any right or exempted from any duty by reason of, namely, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, marital status, family situation, economic situation, education, origin or social condition, genetic heritage, reduced working capacity, disability, chronic illness, nationality, ethnic origin, territory of origin, language, religion, political or ideological convictions and trade union affiliation.

Porto, 21 July 2025.

The Vice-Rector, Professor Maria de Fátima de Sousa Basto Vieira