The Portuguese R&D Funding Agency (FCT) has announced the opening of the fifth edition of the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus, which will allow the hiring of 300 PhD holders in all scientific fields to work in Portugal.
Submission period: 3 February 2022 – 3 March 2022 (17:00 Lisbon Time).
Further information on the call: https://www.fct.pt/apoios/contratacaodoutorados/empregocientifico/ceec_ind_5.phtml.en
The Centre for Classical Studies – University of Lisbon (https://centroclassicos.letras.ulisboa.pt/) looks forward to hearing from interested candidates to develop research in the areas of
a) Classical Literature (Greek and Latin Literature; Late Antique Literature);
b) Epigraphy (Roman, Medieval, Renaissance);
c) Medieval Latin (critical editions, poetry, hagiography, historiography, documentation);
d) Humanism and Neo-Latin (mainly but not restricted to Iberian texts);
e) History of Science (Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance);
f) Europe and Asia (Latin and Neo-Latin texts on Asia);
g) Women Writers and the Classics (mainly but not restricted to Lusophone Literature);
h) Reception Studies (19th-21st c.; mainly but not restricted to Lusophone Literature);
i) Information Science (libraries; archives).
In addition to these themes, we are also eager to attract new researchers willing to develop in Lisbon new cutting edge research on
j) Classics and Gender;
k) Classics and Postcolonialism; or
l) Classics and Education.
At the Centre for Classical Studies in Lisbon, we are very proud because we were the only Portuguese research centre in this scientific area (Classical Studies, Classical Tradition) to have been assessed as “Excellent” in 2019 by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.
If you are interested in being part of our team, please feel free to contact us (rodrigo.furtado@campus.ul.pt) and send us a draft of your project in order to adjust your research interests with the CEC’s own research goals.
The assessment of the applications is not made by the CEC. It is entirely organized by FCT, with no other intervention of the CEC, except for the initial contacts.
Applications are submitted electronically, in English, through the electronic platform myFCT. Applications for the 5th CEEC will be available soon.
The up to 6 years research contracts to be funded under this call consider FOUR LEVELS, corresponding to different career stages:
- Junior researcher: Ph.D. holders with limited post-doctoral experience in the scientific area of application (c. 1.400-1.500€ net wage * 14 months);
- Assistant researcher: Ph.D. holders with more than 5 but less than 12 years of post-doctoral research, with relevant experience in the scientific area of application and limited scientific independence (c. 1.800-1.950€ net wage * 14 months);
- Principal researcher: Ph.D. holders with more than 12 years of post-doctoral research, with relevant experience in the scientific area of application and demonstrating scientific independence for the last 3 years (c. 2.100-2300€ net wage * 14 months);
- Coordinating researcher: Ph.D. holders with the Portuguese title of “agregação” or “habilitação” (this is mandatory), with relevant experience and demonstrating scientific independence and recognised leadership in the scientific area of application (c. 2.350-2500€ net wage * 14 months).
For further information, you can contact the FCT at info.ec@fct.pt.
