NOTICE 24771/2026/2 | INV.JUN.20.2026-DCEA | JUNIOR RESEARCHER | ENERGY

EURAXESS Ireland; Monte de Caparica; À distance; EUR 28 000 - 32 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A NOVA University Lisbon, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, procura Junior Researchers para o projecto LOCATEE/EP-MED, com foco na transição energética justa, pobreza energética e políticas públicas associadas, em contexto internacional.

O posto, situado no Campus da Caparica/Caparica, envolve contrato a termo de até 24 meses, com remuneração conforme legislação aplicável e inglês excelente. Candidato(a) com doutoramento na área é essencial.

Qualifications

• Doutoramento na área de Environment and Sustainability.
• Inglês excelente escrito e falado.
• Experiência em análise de políticas públicas de energia e pobreza energética.

Responsabilités

• Participar em atividades científicas nos projetos de energia, com foco na transição energética justa e na pobreza energética.
• Conduzir revisão de literatura, elaboração de publicações científicas e tratamento de dados sobre pobreza energética.
• Elaborar relatórios técnicos e científicos; disseminação dos resultados junto de diferentes públicos.
• Apoiar atividades de coordenação sob a orientação da equipa NOVA FCT.

Connaissances

Inglês fluente

Comunicação oral e escrita

Formation

Doutoramento em Ambiente e Sustentabilidade

Description du poste

Organisation/Company Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Department Divisão de Recursos Humanos Research Field Environmental science » Other Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Positions PhD Positions Application Deadline 29 Oct 2026 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon) Country Portugal Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 35 Offer Starting Date 9 Oct 2026 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? LIFE Programme Reference Number INV.JUN.20.2026-DCEA Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

New University of Lisbon
NOVA School of Science and Technology
Notice no. º 24771/2026/2, published in Diário da República, 2nd series, no. 195, 08/10/2026
Deadline: 29/10/2026
Opening of an international selection procedure for the recruitment of 2 Junior Researchers
Under the terms of Order no. 13828/2025, of 20 November, by delegation of powers, the Director of the Faculty of Science and Technology of NOVA University Lisbon, Prof. Dr José Júlio Alves Alferes, hereby announces that, by order of 29/09/2026, is open for a period of 15 days, from the date of publication of this Notice in the Diário da República, an international call for tenders, with internal reference “Inv.Jun.20.2026-DCEA”, for the recruitment of 2 Junior Researchers in the scientific area of Energy, subarea in a Fair Energy Transition, with an emphasis on energy poverty, under an indefinite employment contract, pursuant to Decree-Law No. 57/2016, of 29 August, amended by Law No. 57/2017, of 19 July, within the scope of project LOCATEE – “Local Authorities to Tackle Energy Poverty in Private Multi‑Apartment Buildings”, reference LIFE23-CET-LOCATEE-101167621, and EP‑MED – “European Partnership for Personalised Medicine”, reference LIFE-2025-CET-ENERPOV-101293689, both under the LIFE programme, funded by the European Union, currently underway at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the New University of Lisbon.
In compliance with paragraph h) of Article 9 of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, the New University of Lisbon, as an employer, actively promotes a policy of equal opportunities between men and women in access to employment and professional advancement scrupulously ensuring to avoid any form of discrimination. In this sense, terms such as "candidate", "selected", "recruited", "hired", "author", "researcher", among others that refer to people applying for the competition, are not used in this Notice to refer to their gender.
I - Workplace
The place of work will be at the premises of the Faculty of Science and Technology of NOVA University, located on the Caparica Campus, at CENSE – Centre for Research into the Environment and Sustainability, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering.
The employee will make all the journeys, in Portugal or abroad, inherent to their duties or necessary to carry out their activity.
II - Activities and function
The selected candidate will perform the duties of Junior Researcher and will carry out the following tasks:

• Participation in and development of scientific activities within energy projects, focusing on a just energy transition, energy efficiency, the analysis and interplay of energy poverty policies, and the development of energy communities and one‑stop shops;
• Conducting advanced research, including reviewing scientific literature and writing scientific publications; identifying, collecting, analysing and processing data on energy poverty;
• Production of reports and other technical and scientific documentation;
• Organisation and/or participation in the dissemination of results through various channels and to different audiences;
• Support for coordination activities under the responsibility of the NOVA FCT team.

III - Remuneration positioning
The definition of the position is based on the remuneration levels of the categories listed in Decree‑Law No. 57/2016 of 29 August, amended by Law No. 57/2017 of 19 July, and in accordance with Regulatory Decree No. 11‑A/2017 of 29 December, corresponding to the 2nd remuneration position, remuneration level 38, which corresponds to the amount of €2.679,17.
IV - Modality and duration
1.The opening of this tender procedure is intended for the selection of a doctoral candidate to carry out scientific research activities under an uncertain fixed‑term employment contract, the basis of the contract being the performance of a specific, precisely defined and non‑durable service, the contract being compulsorily financed regardless of its origin;
2.The fixed‑term contract will last for the time necessary to carry out the project, 24 months, or for as long as the respective justification persists, but may not exceed the maximum limit of 6 years, as provided for in article 6(3) of Decree‑Law no. 57/2016 of 29 August.
V - Candidates Admission Criteria

• National, foreign and stateless candidates who hold a doctoral degree in the area of Environment and Sustainability may apply. If their qualifications were obtained abroad, they must provide proof of the recognition, equivalence or registration of the degree, under the terms of the applicable legislation. This formality must be fulfilled by the date the contract is signed.
• Possess a relevant academic background in the field and area of focus of the competition;
• Experience in policy analysis in the field of energy and energy poverty;
• Experience in stakeholder engagement activities;
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English, particularly the ability to write and present ideas in line with scientific standards;
• Good communication skills when addressing both scientific and non‑scientific audiences.

IX- Evaluation Criteria

1.The present procedure is designed to evaluate the candidate’s capacity and performance in the different parameters under the terms of article 5 of DL no. 57/2016;
2.The curricular evaluation of the various candidates in each of the areas described below must take into consideration the scientific area in which the call is open;
3.The criteria to be considered in the curricular evaluation of the candidates, in each of the aspects, are those listed below:

• Scientific and Technological Production (STP);
• Applied or Practice‑Based Research Activities (APBRA);
• Extension and Knowledge Dissemination Activities (EKDA);
• Science, Technology and Innovation Program Management Activities (STIPMA);

X - Reasons for admission and exclusion

1.The following are grounds for exclusion from the competition:

• Failure to fulfil the requirements referred to in point V;
• Failure to submit the documents required in points a) to (d) of paragraph 3 of point VI, or submitting them in an illegible or invalid format.
• Incorrectly formalizing of the application.

2.The jury will decide on the admissibility of candidates to the competition, in accordance with the established requirements;
3.The members of the jury will make a justified proposal for each candidate.

XI - Sorting and voting methodology

1.Once the approved candidates have been definitively identified in absolute merit, the jury proceed to their classification in relative merit;
2.Each member of the jury will perform a curricular evaluation of the candidates by presenting a written statement, which will later be included in the minute, in which it proposes the ranking of the candidates duly based on the evaluation criteria indicated in this notice, scoring each candidate against each criterion on a numerical scale from 0 to 100 points;
3.The evaluation criteria indicated should be weighted as follows:
Scientific and Technological Production (STP): 70%
Applied or Practice‑Based Research Activities (APBRA): 10%
Extension and Knowledge Dissemination Activities (EKDA): 10%
Science, Technology and Innovation Program Management Activities (STIPMA): 10%
4.The ordering of the Approved candidates is done by vote of the members of the jury, respecting the ranking presented in the statement referred to in the previous number, under the following terms:
a) The first vote is intended to determine the candidate to be placed in first place;
b) In the voting referred to in the previous paragraph, if a candidate obtains more than half of the votes to be placed in first, he is ordained in this position;
c) If the situation referred to in the previous paragraph is not verified, a new vote is held, only among the candidates who obtained votes for 1st place, after withdrawing the lesser candidate voted for that seat in the previous voting;
d) If there is more than one candidate to be withdrawn, due to an equal number of votes, with a minimum of one vote each, a vote is held only on these to determine the candidate for withdraw from the next vote; in this vote, each member will vote, from among the candidates equally of votes, for the candidate occupying the lowest position in the ranking in his opinion;
e) If there is a tie, the tiebreaker is done through the tiebreaker vote or vote of quality of the president of the jury;
f) Voting shall be repeated until it is determined, by the process described above, which candidate is to be ranked first. If only two candidates remain and each of them obtains half of the votes, the tie shall be broken through the quality vote of the President of the jury;
g) Once the candidate for the first place is chosen, he/she is removed from the voting and the entire process is repeated for the second place and so on until the ordered list of all the candidates.

XII - Notifications and Hearing of Interested Parties

1.A prior hearing shall be held, under the terms of the Administrative Procedure Code, for those candidates who have been rejected, and of candidates who have been placed on the ranking list of the candidates who cannot be filled for the position in the competition. All candidates shall be notified of the ratification of the jury's final decision;
2.Notifications shall be made by email;
3.The tender dossier may be consulted by the candidates, in the Human Resources Division of FCT NOVA, under the terms indicated in the above-mentioned notification.

XIV - Jury Composition

President:
Doctor João Pedro Costa da Luz Baptista Gouveia, Principal Research, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa;
Efective Members:
Doctor Rita João Duarte Lopes Gouveia, Assistant Professor, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa;
Doctor Pedro Mendes Aleluia Martins da Palma, Assistant Research, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa;

XV. Data Protection

In accordance with the RGPD - General Data Protection Regulation, the data collected will be processed exclusively for the processing of the application.

And for the record, this notice is published.
08/10/2026 - Prof. Doctor José Alferes, Dean