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Reference: RG_03_DEM_TEMA_2026_LiquidGreen

A tender is hereby opened for the award of one Research Grant(s) (RG) in the scope of R&D projects LiquidGreen-

Production of Liquid Fuels by the electrochemical conversion of biogas”, Department of Mechanical Engineering / TEMA

– Centre of Mechanical Technology and Automation, (reference 2022.09319.PTDC) under the following conditions:

1. Scientific Area: Mechanical Engineering, Science and Engineering of Materials, Chemical Engineering, Physics or related areas.

2. Funding Source Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P./MCTES, through national funds (PIDDAC) (OE).

3. Admission Requirements:

3.1. 3. Students enrolled in doctorate.

3.2. 1. Study Area: Students enrolled in doctoral programs or national, foreign or stateless candidates who fulfil the qualifications necessary to enroll at the University of Aveiro in a program leading to a doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering or related scientific area and holders of a scientific and professional curriculum that reveal an adequate profile for the activity to be developed.

The proof of enrolment must be made available until the contract is awarded, and the candidate may attach a declaration of honor to confirm that they meet the requirements for enrolment in an integrated master's degree, master's or doctoral program or in a course that does not confer an academic degree.

If the qualification has been conferred by a foreign higher education institution it must be recognized by a Portuguese higher education institution, under the terms of the provisions of article 25 of Decree-Law no. 66/2018, of August 16th, which approves the legal regime of recognition of academic degrees and diplomas of Higher Education, attributed by foreign higher education institutions, and of paragraph e) of no. 2 of article 4 of Decree-Law no. 60/2018, of August 3rd, and any formalities established therein must be fulfilled by the date of the hiring act.

4. Other Requirements:

In the application, the scholarship holder must indicate the name of the course, date of registration and duration of the course. Only courses related to the area of the degree held and with a duration commensurate with the duration of the scholarship will be considered.

5. Eligibility: Applicants are eligible if they comply with paragraph a) of no.1 of article 2, of the Research Fellow Statute as amended by Decree-Law no. 123/2019, of August 28th, as well as nos. 1 and 2 of article 6 of the Research Grant

Regulations of the Foundation for Science and Technology.

6. Work plan: The research activity aims at the preparation and fabrication of protonic electrochemical cells, the use of different characterization techniques—including impedance spectroscopy, thermogravimetry, dilatometry, X-ray diffraction, and scanning electron microscopy—to be used in an electrochemical device for the production of synthetic liquid fuels.

7. Applicable legislation and regulations: Statute of Scientific Research Grant Holder, as amended by Decree-Law no.123/2019, of August 28th; Regulation no. 950/2019, of November 29th, published in Diário da República, no. 241, SeriesII, of December 16th (FCT, I.P. Research Grants Regulation); Decree-Law no. 66/2018, of August 16th (Legal regime for recognition of academic degrees and diplomas of higher education awarded by foreign higher education institutions).

8. Workplace: The work will be carried out at TEMA – Centre of Mechanical Technology and Automation / Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Aveiro, under the scientific supervision of Professor/Doctor Duncan PaulFagg.

9. Duration of the grant(s): The grant duration will be 5 months, starting in march of 2026, up to the maximum limit of approved funding. Under no circumstances shall it exceed the limits defined in nos. 3, 4 and 5 of article 6, of Regulation no. 950/2019, of November 29th, published in Diário da República, no. 241, Series II, of December 16th (Research Grants Regulation of FCT, I.P.).

10. Amount of monthly maintenance allowance: The amount of the grant corresponds to €1.309,64 , according to the table of monthly maintenance allowance amounts set out in Annex I of Regulation no. 950/2019, subject to any updates that may be applicable, under the terms of no. 2 of article 18 of Regulation no. 950/2019, of November 29th, published in Diário da República, no. 241, Series II, of December 16th (Research Grants Regulation of FCT, I.P.). The fellow may also be reimbursed for the amount corresponding to the Voluntary Social Security, in case of adherence to this plan.

11. Selection methods: The selection methods to be used will be the following:

The jury deliberates on the approval of absolute merit, based on the merit of the overall curriculum of the candidates in the scientific area of the competition and also taking into account, cumulatively, the fulfillment of at least one of the following requirements:

1 — Author or co-author of at least one article in the scientific area published in the proceedings of a conference or in a national or international journal.

2 — The decision of exclusion on absolute merit is notified to the candidates, by email, for the purposes of holding the hearing of interested parties.

3 — At the end of the approval phase on absolute merit, the jury begins to assess the candidacies, taking into account the criteria of this announcement.

4 — Evaluation and selection

4.1 — The selection method is curriculum evaluation.

4.2 — The evaluation of the scientific and curricular path focuses on relevance, quality and timeliness:

a) The scientific and technological production of the last two years considered most relevant by the candidate.

b) Applied research activities, or those based on practice, carried out in the last two years and considered to have the greatest impact by the candidate.

4.3 — The period of two years referred to in the previous number may be increased by the jury, at the request of the candidate, when based on suspension of scientific activity for societally protected reasons, namely, for reasons of parental leave, prolonged serious illness, and other legally protected situations of unavailability for work.

5 — Curriculum Assessment. This assessment component is expressed on a numeric scale from 0 to 20 taking into account the following criteria.

5.1 — The following are curriculum evaluation criteria:

5.1.1: Criteria for evaluating the Scientific Performance of the last two years considered most relevant by the candidate

(18 points);

- Scientific production. Quality and quantity of scientific production in the area for which the competition is open (books, articles in magazines, communications at congresses) expressed by the number and type of publications, and by the recognition given to it by the scientific community (translated into the quality of the places of publication and references made to them by other authors);

5.1.2: Criteria for evaluating the extension and dissemination of knowledge activities carried out in the last two years, namely in the context of the promotion of engineering and scientific practices, considered of greater relevance by the candidate (2 points);

Participation in consulting activities, testing and measurement involving the industrial environment and/or the public sector. Participation as a teacher in professional training or technological specialization courses aimed at companies or the public sector.

5.2 — The score obtained in the curricular evaluation method is expressed on a numerical scale from 0 to 20, considering the valuation to the nearest hundredth.

5.3 — The jury deliberates through nominal voting based on the evaluation criteria; abstentions not being allowed.

12. Composition of the Selection Jury: President: Doctor Duncan Paul Fagg, Principal Investigator at the University of Aveiro; Effective Members: Doctor Margarida Isabel Cabrita Marques Coelho, Full Professor at the University of Aveiro

and Doctor António Carlos Mendes de Sousa, Retired Full Professor at the University of Aveiro; Supplementary Members

Doctor António Manuel Bastos Pereira, Full Professor at the University of Aveiro and Victor Fernando Santos Neto, Associate Professor with Aggregation at the University of Aveiro. .

13. Deadline for applications and how to submit applications: The call is open from January 22nd to February 4th, 2026, and only applications submitted within the deadline will be admitted.

Applications must be formalized by sending a letter of application accompanied by the following documents:

Curriculum Vitae, certificate of qualifications, declaration of honor and other supporting documents deemed relevant. They shall also indicate the e-mail address to which by such indication they accept to be notified for all purposes within this procedure.

Applications should be sent by e-mail to the address of the Grants Area of the Secretary of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Aveiro (dem.bolsas@ua.pt), until the deadline, indicating in the subject line the reference “BI_06_DEM_TEMA_2023_LiquidGreen”. Additionally, candidates are requested to send the scanned documents to the jury president, Doctor Duncan Paul Fagg, email address duncan@ua.pt.

14. Form of publication/notification of results: The final results of the evaluation will be published through an ordered list by final mark obtained posted on the University's website, within 90 working days after the final date of submission of the application, and the successful candidate will be notified by email. For the purposes of prior hearing of interested parties, the deadline of 10 working days is set, as provided for in the Code of Administrative Procedure. At the end of the period for hearing the interested parties, and in the absence of any response from them, the list of candidates will become final.

Candidates may lodge a complaint against the final decision within 15 working days, or appeal to the maximum executive body of the funding entity within 30 working days after notification of the final decision, in accordance with the provisions of article 12 of the Research Grants Regulation of the Foundation for Science and Technology.

15. Tender duration: The final ranking list of candidates will be valid until 31 de March de 2026 for the purpose of constituting a reserve list for selection.

The models of the grant contract and of the final report to be prepared by the grant holder and the supervisor are available at Research fellows - sgrh - Universidade de Aveiro (ua.pt).