Feup| 1 Research Grant Announcement|Feup-Bi-Thermobatt_2_Bols-Feup-26-79

Organisation/Company FEUP Department Human Resources Division Research Field Engineering » Chemical engineering Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions Master Positions Application Deadline 19 Nov ***:59 (Europe/Lisbon) Country Portugal Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time 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
Offer Description 1 Research Grant Announcement (M/F)
Call open for applications for a research grant within the framework of project ThermoBatt: "High-efficiency, low-cost thermal battery with pine resin-based phase change materials", with nr. * and operation code at the Funds Platform (Balcão dos Fundos) COMPETE-FEDER-**, co-financed by the European Union through the COMPETE ** Programme, of Portugal , 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.
or
- 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.
Note: In the case of masters who are enrolled in non-academic degree courses, the scholarship can only be awarded to those who do not exceed, with this scholarship contract, including possible renewals, an accumulated period of two years in that typology of the scholarship, followed or interpolated.
and
Requirement 2:
- Hold a master's degree inChemical Engineering – Process and Product 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. *, of august 16th, and any formalities established there must be fulfilled until the time of signing the contract.
Activity Outline: The work plan includes the study and development of latent heat-based thermal storage batteries, namely: i) conducting preliminary studies and defining technical specifications; ii) performance simulation, analysis and validation of thermal battery cells/elements; iii) performance evaluation and optimization of the laboratory prototype, as well as design and dimensioning of the functional unit (thermal/electrochemical battery); iv) economic feasibility and sustainability study, as well as monitoring and performance evaluation of the latent heat thermal battery in real conditions; and v) promotion and dissemination of the results obtained.
Legislation and regulations:
Law No. *, of 18th August, in its current wording (Statutes of Scientific Research Fellow) and Regulation of Research Grants of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, in force and Regulation of Research Grants of University of Porto, in force .
Work place : The work will be developed at the Department of Civil and Georesources Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), under the scientific supervision of DoctorJoão Manuel do Paço Quesado Delgado and Professor Adélio Miguel Magalhães Mendes .
Grant duration : Initial duration of
12 months , with the predicted starting date in
November
, on an exclusive basis eventually renewable but never exceeding the end of the projec.
If it is not possible to ensure the duration of 12 months estimated in the previous paragraph, this duration will be adjusted according to the end date of the project, and provided that the minimum duration of 3 consecutive months is guaranteed, in accordance with paragraph 3 of article 6 of the Research Grant Regulations of the Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P.
The eventual renewal of the scholarship will be carried out as determined in article 6 of the Research Grants Regulation of the Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P.
Stipend : The grant stipend amounts to ***,64 € according to the table of values of the grants awarded directly by FCT, I.P. in the Country .The payment will be made by bank transfer.
Selection procedure :
The curriculum of the candidates (60%) will be evaluated based on the merit of the candidate and the following factors will be weighted:
a) Academic training (Master in Chemical Engineering – Process and Product - 7 points; Master in Chemical Engineering– 3 points)
b) Score of the Master's Thesis inChemical Engineering – Process and Product, in the area of resinous materials (equal to or greater than 18 points / 90% - 10 points; other scores - 3 points);
c) Research experience in resinous materials -