CENTRE OF BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING: CEB-BI-54-2026

Organisation/Company Centro de Engenharia Biológica da Universidade do Minho Department Engenharia Biológica Research Field Biological sciences » Biological engineering Researcher Profile Other Profession Positions Master Positions Application Deadline 19 Oct 2026 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon) Country Portugal Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Part-time Hours Per Week 35 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Other EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

A call for applications is now open for the attribution of one research grant(s) within the scope of the R&D project, CIRPOL, Contaminated Polimeric Wastes of Hard Circularity, MPr-2023-8, leaded by BLC3 Evolution, Lda., supported by national funds through ANI - Agência Nacional de Inovação, S.A., within the Operational Programme COMPETE2030-FEDER- , under the following conditions:

Scientific Area : Engineering Sciences and Technologies.

The open position is intended for candidates holding a master’s degree who, on the date of their hiring, prove their enrolment in one of the following courses:

- PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering;

- Non-academic degree course.

• The applicants may apply without prior registration in the course for which the fellowship is open. The requirement to enrol in a degree course or non-degree course will be verified on the date of contracting the fellowship;
• Only fellowships whose selected applicants present a valid proof of enrolment in a degree course or non-degree course issued by a Higher Education Institution will be contracted, according to the type of the fellowship, indicating, respectively, the academic year or its duration (star and term).

Applicants’ eligibility: Candidates who meet the conditions set out in Article 9 of the Research Grant Regulations, No. 950/2019, of , of FCT I.P. are eligible.

Nationals or citizens of other European Union member states, third-country nationals, stateless persons, and citizens with political refugee status are eligible to apply for this competition.

Mandatory requirements:

• Have a master’s degree in Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Biotechnology or in related areas.
• Not to exceed, with the execution of the scholarship contract in question, including possible renewals, a cumulative period of two years, consecutive or intermittent, of a research grant intended for graduates or master's degree holders enrolled in a non-degree awarding program;
• Do not exceed, with the signing of the fellowship contract in question, including possible renewals, a cumulative period of four years of research fellowship intended for doctoral students.

Preferential factors:

• Lab experience in microbiology, reaction processes, separation processes and in analytical methods.

Workplan and objectives to be achieved : Study and evaluation of a technological solution for the treatment and conversion of hospital waste with difficult circularity through microbiological inactivation pre-treatments followed by an advanced thermochemical depolymerization process and a final combined phase of extraction and separation applied to the liquid fraction using organic solvents and fractional distillation.

Applicable legislation and regulations: Research Fellow Statute (EBI), approved by Law nº. 40/2004 of August 18, in its current wording and FCT Research Fellowship Regulation, approved by Regulation nº 950/2019, published in the Diário da República, 2nd series, of December 16, 2019, in its current wording, and Scientific Research Fellowship Regulation (RBIC) of the University of Minho, approved by order nº 4998/2025, published in the Diário da República, 2nd series, nº 81, of April 28, 2025 Amended and republished through amendment statement no. 634/2025/2, published in the Official Gazette, 2nd series, no. 132, of July 11.

Host/Contracting institution and scientific supervision : The workplan will be carried out in the Centre of Biological Engineering of University of Minho, located in the University of Minho, Campus of Gualtar, in Braga, under the direction of Doctor Nuno Miguel Dias Cerca, coordinator of the host entity, and whose scientific guidance will be the responsibility of the Professor Maria Teresa Tavares and of the Professor Pier Parpot.

Fellowship duration : The grant will take place for a period of 12 months, with a provisional starting date in December 2026.

The fellowship grant may eventually be renewed within the limits established for ea