BI M/CBMA/2024

Announcement for the attribution of 2 Research Scholarships

UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO

Centro de Biologia Molecular e Ambiental (CBMA)

Announcement for the attribution of two ResearchScholarships

BI M/ CBMA/2024

A call for tenders is now open for the attribution of two Research Scholarship (BI M/CBMA/2024) within the scope of the “Multiannual Funding of R&D Units (2020-2024) – Centre for Molecular and Environmental Biology CBMA – UIDB/ 4050/2020, with support by the budget of the Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. (FCT, IP) in its OE component, under the following conditions:

       Candidates with a MSc in Biology and related areas

AND

     Students enrolled or available to enrol in courses that do not confer an academic degree

The candidates will carry out R&D activities, aiming at the consolidation of their scientific training.

Work Plan Scholarship 1: High-performance liquid chromatography assays applied to environmental samples, and for the detection and quantification of value-added compounds from complex matrices.

Work Plan Scholarship 2: Flow cytometry assays applied to environmental samples and biological samples from pure cultures.

President:Maria Cláudia Gonçalves da Cunha Pascoal, Associated Professor with Habilitation from the School of Sciences, University of Minho

Effective members: Bruno Branco Castro, Assistant Professor from the School of Sciences, University of Minho and Maria Teresa Correia Guedes Lino Neto, Associated Professor from the School of Sciences, University of Minho

Substitute members: Andreia Ferreira Castro Gomes, Associated Professor from the School of Sciences, University of Minho and Pedro Alexandre Dias Soares, Assistant Professor from the School of Sciences, University of Minho

If the President of the Jury is unavailable, she shall be replaced by the first effective member. The first substitute member will replace the effective member.

The Jury, including the President, undertake the commitment to respect a set of responsibilities essential to the evaluation process, such as the duties of impartiality, of stating any potential situations of conflict of interest and confidentiality.

• (30%) Academic record of the candidate (including performance in related courses, and past experience in research projects).

Work Plan Scholarship 1

• (50%) Experience and keen interest in utilizing high-performance liquid chromatography assays for analysing environmental samples, as well as detecting and quantifying value-added compounds within intricate matrices.

Work Plan Scholarship 2

• (50%) Experience and keen interest in conducting flow cytometry assays for both environmental and biological samples obtained from pure cultures.

• (20%) Motivation letter.

The jury may also decide not to assign the Scholarship if none of candidates meets the minimum required conditions (final grade above 3,8). Documents proving the ownership of academic degrees and diplomas, or their respective recognition when foreign higher education institutions have awarded them may be dispensed with at the application stage, being replaced by a declaration of honour by the candidate, with the verification of this condition occurring only in phase of contracting the scholarship. This statement must attest facts that occurred on a date prior to the application. In situations of divergence between the information contained in the declaration and the documentation submitted for the purpose of contracting a grant, only the information contained in the latter will be considered. If it is verified that the documents proving the ownership of the academic degree and diploma, or the respective recognition under the terms of Decree-Law No. 66/2018, of August 16, do not correspond to the classifications awarded in the evaluation of the academic path and may, consequently, changing the candidate’s ranking, the scholarship will not be contracted.

Note: Applicants with degrees obtained abroad must present proof of recognition of qualifications in Portugal and conversion of the final classification obtained in them to the Portuguese classification scale or declaration under the terms indicated in the previous point. Candidates who do not comply with one of these provisions, the jury will assign the minimum grade in the grade of the degree and/or master’s course, according to the defined scale of values. of a higher education institution, in the area or area related to that requested in notice.

The application is open from 16/02/2024 to 29/02/2024

Applications must be formalized, obligatorily, through the following documents: i) Detailed curriculum vitae (pdf form), including the telephone and email contacts of the candidate; ii) official academic degree certificate or declaration of the candidate; iii) Detailed list of grades (pdf form); iv) Motivation letter explaining the interest in the position (pdf form).

Applications must be sent to the e-mail [email protected] with the documents stated above and in pdf form.

The application email should clearly state the reference BI1/ CBMA/2024 (for scholarship 1) and BI2/ CBMA/2024 (for scholarship 2).

Applications submitted through alternative methods will not be considered.

On the contract signing date, the selected candidates must prove enrolment in non-degree course in the educational project of the institution (UMinho).