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Research grant for Doctors (1 vacancy) REFERENCE: BI/CITAB/UTAD/ENG/2015

It is available one research grant for doctors, within the Research Unit CITAB – Centre for The Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (AGR-Norte-VilaReal-4033) from the Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal, funded by national funds through FCT, under the following conditions: Scientific area: Engineering Admission prerequisites: PhD in Mechanical Engineering, with experience in experimental and computational methods applied to solid mechanics. Preference will be given to candidates that demonstrate to have solid background in digital image correlation method, finite element method and inverse identification methods of constitutive parameters.

Work plan: The selected candidate work will be in the area of mechanical behaviour of vegetable tissues and structures (wood, chestnut, sherry and grape).The work will focus on the development of experimental and inverse identification methods (coupling finite element simulation with optimization strategies) of elastic and viscoelastic properties of vegetable tissues and on the study of microstructure/properties relationships.

Legislation and regulations: Law N º. 40/2004, of August 18 (Status of Scientific Research Fellow); the current Research Grants Regulation

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(http://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/regulamento.phtml) and Research Grant Regulation from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro - Order RT.36/2011, July 6, Mr. Rector, published in the Official Gazette by Order No. 9157/2011 (Series II) of 19 July.

Workplace: The work will be conducted at the Centre for The Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences under the supervision of Professor José Joaquim Lopes Morais, located at UTAD in Vila Real, Portugal.

Grant duration: The grant duration is 12 months, starting at July 2015, and may be renewed up to the maximum number of months in accordance with current legislation and financial availability (subject to FCT funding).

Monthly maintenance grant:

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(http://alfa.fct.mctes.pt/apoios/bolsas/valores). Payment is done on a monthly basis through bank deposit, cheque or other equivalent way.

Candidates’ selection criteria: The selection methods to use will be the following: The candidates will be ranked based on their personal merit as assessed by Curriculum Vitae (60%), research experience under the work plan scope (weight: 20%), and interview (weight: 20%). In the interview will be valued aspects related to interest in research careers, particularly with the topics studied in this project, and professional skills. The candidates will be classified with a scale of 1 to 20 for each criterion. Candidates classified with a score below 15 in the Curriculum Vitae will not be admitted to the interview.

Jury Composition:: Prof. José Joaquim Lopes Morais, PhD (President) Prof. Pedro José de Melo Teixeira Pinto, PhD (effective member) Prof. José Luis Penetra Cerveira Lousada, PhD (effective member) Results publication/ Candidates notification: The final results will be made available publicly in a sorted list according to candidates’ marks. The list will be placed in a visible and public place at CITAB office (building P2 - UTAD). The best candidate will be informed by e-mail.

If the decision is unfavorable to the grant of the scholarship, the applicant has a period of 10 days following such disclosure, to pronounce himself in a preliminary hearing, under the terms of the Administrative Procedure Code.

Application deadline and method: Applications will be received from 28 May until 11 June 2015.

The documents for the application are the Form Mod4_BIUTAD, the curriculum vitae, a certificate containing the marks of the disciplines completed during the BSc. and Master and any other documents that the candidate may find relevant.

The form Mod4_BIUTAD-Application Form for Fellowship is available in UTAD’s website, using the following instructions: •

Access to the homepage of UTAD: www.utad.pt. Select the menu "Investigar" Option "Bolsas de Investigação".

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In the "Bolsas de Investigação" page, select the option "Download" next to the title "Modelos de Documentos[...]"

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Download Mod4_BIUTAD-Application Form the research grant, in Portuguese or English version.

The applications should be sent by email to Prof. José Joaquim Lopes Morais, jmorais@utad.pt