B-0194-22 – Research Grant – BIM – UIDB/50008/2020

The Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) opens a call for a research grant, hereinafter referred to as a PhD Research Grant, in the field of Biomedical Engineering, complying with the provisions of the FCT Regulation for Research Studentships and Fellowships (RBI) and the Research Fellowship Holder Statute (EBI).

The scholarships will be financed by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) under the Collaboration Protocol for Financing the Multiannual Plan for Research Grants for Doctoral Students, signed between FCT and the Research & Development (R&D) Unit Instituto de Telecomunicações, UIDB/50008/2020

The call is open from November 1st to November 30th, 2022 at 11:59 pm (Lisbon time).

Applications, and all the supporting documents described in this Notice of the Call, must be submitted online at the IT portal https://www.it.pt/Positions/OtherResearchPosition/7710

Each applicant must submit one application only, under penalty of cancellation of all applications submitted.

Providing false statements or committing acts of plagiarism by applicants leads to the exclusion of the application, without prejudice of taking other corrective and punitive disciplinary measures

Work Objectives:

The work plan must fall strictly within the scientific area defined in Section 3. It must be in line with the mission of Instituto de Telecomunicações, contribute to the development of its R&D strategic plan, and must be supported and supervised by one of the PhD members affiliated with the Lisbon External Laboratory (https://www.it.pt/ITSites/Members/1 ). The work plan document must contain, necessarily, all the elements indicated in Section 4.2 of this notice. The evaluation criteria to be applied is provided in Section 6.

Place of work:

The PhD research grant aims to finance the research activities, by the grant holder, to obtain a PhD degree from Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa (IST-UL). These research activities will take place at Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT), in its External Laboratory at Lisbon. IT will be the host institution for the scholarship holders, without preventing that the work may be carried out in collaboration with more than one institution.

The research activities of the selected grant holder leading to the PhD academic degree must be framed in the activities plan and strategy of the Instituto de Telecomunicações, and must be developed within the scope of the following Doctoral Program:

• Doctoral Programme in Biomedical Engineering, IST-UL;

Duration:

As a rule, the duration of the grant is annual, renewable up to a maximum of four years (48 months), and the grant cannot be awarded for a period of less than 3 consecutive months.

Required Documents:

The research grant contracts are signed directly with FCT.

The following documents are mandatory, upon granting of the scholarship, for hiring purposes:

a) Copy of the documents of personal identification, tax number and, if applicable, social security ;

b) Copy of the academic degree certificates;

c) Workplan to be developed

d) Submission of the recognition of foreign academic degrees and the conversion of the respective final grade to the Portuguese grading scale, if applicable;

e) Document proving the acceptance and registration in the Doctoral Program identified in this Notice;

f) Supervisor(s) statement declaring the commitment to supervise the PhD work, as established in Article no. 5-A of the Statute for Research Fellowships (template will be made available by FCT);

g) Document proving the candidate’s acceptance by Instituto de Telecomunicações, guaranteeing the necessary conditions for its successful development, as well as the fulfillment of the duties provided for in article 13 of the Research Fellowship Holder Statute (template will be made available by FCT);

h) Updated document proving the exclusive work regime (template will be made available by FCT).

The scholarship granting is further dependent on:

• The fulfilment of all the requirements listed in this Notice of the Call;

• The results of scientific evaluation;

• The absence of unjustified non-compliance of the grant holder duties during previous directly or indirectly FCT funded fellowships;

• The FCT’s available budget.

The contracting of the scholarship is foreseen during the month of January 2023

Failure to deliver any of the necessary documents to complete the hiring process by January 2023 may imply the expiration of the referred grant and the termination of the process.

The whole selection process is conducted through the IT web portal. No actions outside this platform are valid.

All the selection process is conducted through the IT web portal. No actions outside this platform are valid.