FEUP - Research Grant - ESC_SMB -BOLS-FEUP-26-62

Organisation/Company FEUP Department Human Resources Division Research Field Engineering » Chemical engineering Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions Master Positions Application Deadline 3 Nov 2026 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon) Country Portugal Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 35 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

1 Research Grant Announcement (M/F)

Call open for applications for a research grant within the framework of activities on Cyclic Adsorption/Reaction Processes, financed by the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, under the following conditions:

Scientific Area: Chemical Engineering

Admission requirements: Candidates who cumulatively meet the following two requirements may apply for this grant:

Requirement 1:

• Be a student enrolled in a doctoral program in the area of Chemical Engineering, a requirement to be duly proven at the time of signing the contract.
• Holder of an academic degree enrolled in a non-academic degree course integrated in the educational project of a higher education institution, developed in association or cooperation with one or more R&D units, a requirement to be duly proven at the time of signing the contract.

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Requirement 2:

• Hold a master’s degree inChemical Engineering or related field.

If the degree has been awarded by a foreign higher education institution, it must comply with the provisions of the Decree-Law no. 66/2018, of august 16th, and any formalities established there must be fulfilled until the time of signing the contract.

Activity Outline: Development of a real-time optimization algorithm for a simulated moving bed system to correct possible mismatches between the mathematical model and the real process. The approach to be developed is based on Extremum Seeking Control (ESC), a form of adaptive optimization that consists of adding perturbations to the process inputs to estimate the gradients with respect to the decision variables.

Legislation and regulations: Law Nº. 40/2004, of 18th August, in its current wording (Statutes of Scientific Research Fellow) and Regulation of Research Grants of University of Porto .

Work place: The work will be developed at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), under the scientific supervision of Professor Diogo Filipe Mateus Rodrigues and Professor Alexandre Filipe Porfírio Ferreira .

Grant duration: Initial duration of 3 months , with the predicted starting date in November 2026 , on an exclusive basis eventually renewable but never exceeding the project duration.

If the contracting procedures do not allow the scholarship to have a minimum duration of 3 consecutive months, in accordance with paragraph 2 of article 10 of the Research Regulation of Research Grants of University of Porto, the grant will not be awarded.

The eventual renewal of the scholarship will be carried out as determined in article 10 of the Regulation of Research Grants of University of Porto.

Stipend: The grant stipend varies between 1.359,64 €, according to the table of values of the Regulation of Research Grants of University of Porto , and 1.609,64 €, depending on the profile and previous experience of the candidate in the project area.

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