Full Professor in Applied Psychology

Offer Description

It is hereby made known that, for a period of 30 (thirty) working days following the publication of the present Notice in Diário da República (the Portuguese Official Gazette), the Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa (FP-ULisboa) is holding an International documental competition for the recruitment of 2 (two) Full Professors, in the disciplinary area of Applied Psychology, to be hired through the celebration of an employment contract in public functions, in terms of the Articles 37 to 51, 61 and 62-A of the Estatuto da Carreira Docente Universitária (University Teaching Career Statutes), issued by Decree-law No. 205/2009, of 31st of August, and altered by Law No. 8/2010, of 13th May (hereinafter referred to as ECDU), and further applicable legislation, namely the Regulamento Geral de Concursos para Recrutamento de Professores Catedráticos, Associados e Auxiliares da Universidade de Lisboa (General Regulations for the Recruitment of Full Professors, Associate Professors and Assistant Professors of the University of Lisbon), published by the Rector’s Order of February 16th 2015, published in Diário da República, 2nd series, No. 45, by Order No. 2307/2015, of 5th of March 2015 (hereinafter designated as ULisboa Regulation).

In compliance with paragraph h) of article 9 of the Constitution, the Public Administration, as the employing entity, actively promotes a policy of equality of opportunities between men and women in access to employment and professional development, scrupulously providing for the prevention of any type of discrimination, in compliance with the joint Order No. 373/2000, of March 31st of the Minister of State Reform and Public Administration, and the Minister for Equality. Therefore, the terms "candidate," "recruited," "professor," and other similar terms are not used in this notice to refer to gender.

Likewise, no candidate shall be privileged, favoured, prejudiced, deprived of any right or exempted from any duty on the basis of ancestry, age, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, financial status, education, social circumstances, genetic inheritance, reduced work capacity, disability, chronic illness, nationality, ethnic or racial origin, place of origin, language, religion, political or ideological beliefs and union membership.

In accordance with Articles 37 to 51 of the ECDU and other applicable legislation, and in compliance with the article 8 of the ULisboa Regulation, the following requirements must be followed:

I – Authorization Order

The opening of this Public Tender follows the Order of the University of Lisbon Rector’s, Professor Doutor Luís Manuel dos Anjos Ferreira, dated September 21, 2026, issued after the cumulative confirmation of the following requirements:

1. Existence of adequate budget provision;
2. The position for which this recruitment procedure is open is foreseen and unoccupied in staffing map of the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon.

II — Workplace

Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa, located in Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013 Lisboa, Portugal, and the selected candidate must perform teaching and research activities, in the latter case being integrated into the Center for Research in Psychological Science (CICPSi), associated with the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon.

III — Admission requirements

1 - Hold a Ph.D. degree, awarded more than five years prior to the deadline for submitting applications, and the title of “Agregado”, under the terms of article 40 of the ECDU.

1.1 - Holders of the doctor's degree obtained abroad must have the same degree awarded by a Portuguese higher education institution in accordance with Decree-Law nº 66/2018 of August 16th, in its current version.

1.2 - The recognition of the doctor's degree, referred to in the previous number, must be obtained before the deadline to sign the contract, if the candidate in an eligible place has obtained a doctorate abroad.

2 – Be fluent in spoken and written Portuguese.

2.1 - Candidates of foreign nationality, except candidates from Portuguese-speaking countries, must demonstrate expertise of spoken and written Portuguese at the common reference level of B1 or higher. This requirement has to be officially recognized by a certificate or diploma of communicative competence in the Portuguese language from the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages of the Council of Europe.

2.2 - The candidate must be a holder of the requirement referred to in 2.1) up to the date of signing the contract, when applicable.

3 - The non-delivery of any of the documents that must instruct the application, within the deadline and under the terms indicated in Chapters VIII, IX and X of this Notice, immediately determines its non-admission, which will be reviewed and decided by the Dean of the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon prior to the Jury’s decision on absolute merit.

4 – Candidates will also be excluded, even if approved and sorted in the unitary list of the final ranking of the present Public Tender in a place that allows them to fill the position, if, in accordance with Chapter VI of the ULisboa Regulation, upon being required to submit the documents proving that they meet the legally necessary conditions for the establishment of a legal relationship of indefinite duration with the Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa, they unjustifiably fail to do so within the established deadline or, having submitted them, the documents prove to be inadequate, false or invalid.

IV Requirements for admission on absolute merit

1 - Only candidates that cumulatively fulfill the following requirements will be admitted on absolute merit:

a) Have an overall curriculum vitae that the Jury considers to demonstrate scientific merit, research capacity and pedagogical achievement compatible with the performance of teaching and research activities in the disciplinary area for which the competition is opened, and appropriate to the rank of Full Professor, in accordance with Article 10 of Chapter III of the Regulations.

b) Demonstrate compliance with the requirements listed below. Candidates shall be considered approved on absolute merit provided that they cumulatively meet the following criteria:

• Have served and/or currently serve as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator of at least two (2) externally funded competitive research projects.
• Demonstrate a sustained record of high-quality scientific output in the disciplinary area of the competition, evidenced by publications subject to international peer review. Candidates must demonstrate the scientific, methodological and/or societal impact of their most significant contributions, including those achieved during the last five years.

2 - Candidates approved by the absolute majority of the voting members of the Jury, through justified roll call vote, with no abstentions allowed, will be considered as approved on absolute merit.

V — Evaluation and ranking parameters on relative merit, respective weighting and final valuation system

1 - Once the candidates who are approved on absolute merit are definitively identified, they will be evaluated and ranked according to their relative merit.

2 - The selection method will be the curricular evaluation, as established in No. 6 of article 50 of the ECDU, as well as No. 4 of article 5 and article 11 of the ULisboa Regulation, and based on ranking criteria, respective weighting and final valuation system indicated in this Notice.

3 – Each member of the Jury assesses the relative merit of the candidates, with the final aim of ranking them, based on the weighted sum of the score obtained in each evaluation criterion discriminated below, on a 0-100 scale (with 0 being the minimum value and 100 being the maximum value).

4 - These evaluation and ranking parameters take into account: scientific performance, pedagogical ability and other activities, developed by the candidate, relevant to the mission of the higher education institution, as well as the content of the scientific and pedagogical project presented by the candidate, compatible with the disciplinary area for which the competition is opened and appropriate to the rank of Full Professor, with particular emphasis being placed on the relevance, quality and timeliness of the candidate’s curriculum vitae and on the most relevant and impactful academic contributions selected and identified by the candidate in the curriculum vitae.

5 - The following weight distribution will be attributed to the scores in each ranking criterion:

A. Scientific Performance — 45%;

B. Pedagogical Ability — 25;

C. Other activities relevant to the University's mission — 20%;

D. Scientific and Pedagogical Project, describing the research and teaching activities that the candidate proposes to undertake and demonstrating their contribution to the scientific and pedagogical development of FP-ULisboa – 10%.

Within each evaluation dimension, candidates shall be assessed according to the parameters set out below, with the respective weightings.

A. Scientific Performance (45%)

Within the Scientific Performance dimension, candidates shall be assessed based on the following parameters:

a) Scientific publications, with particular value attributed to publications in international journals indexed in WoS and/or Scopus and ranked in Quartiles 1 and 2; publications in international journals with impact indicators indexed in other international databases; publications in international journals indexed in international databases but without impact indicators; publications in other scientific journals; and books and book chapters published by internationally recognised academic publishers relevant to the disciplinary field (25%).

b) Participation in internationally and nationally funded competitive research projects in Psychology and related fields (either as Principal Investigator or as a research team member); acquisition of national and international research funding; participation in other non-competitive funded projects and research contracts; service as scientific consultant; editor or associate editor of indexed scientific journals; membership of editorial boards or reviewer activities for internationally recognised scientific journals relevant to the disciplinary field; service in governing bodies of scientific societies within the disciplinary field; scientific achievement awards; and participation in national and international multicentre research networks (15%).

c) Other scientific activities, including invited lectures at international and national congresses, conferences and seminars; oral communications, workshops and posters presented at scientific events; participation in doctoral examination committees; participation in master's examination committees; organisation of congresses, conferences and seminars; and participation in evaluation panels (5%).

Candidates must identify the 5 five publications that, in their view, best represent their most significant contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the disciplinary field of the competition and provide a brief justification for their selection.

B. Pedagogical ability (25 %);

Within the Pedagogical Ability dimension, candidates shall be assessed based on the following parameters:

a) National and international teaching experience in Psychology, with particular value attributed to teaching performed across different levels of higher education (15 %).

b) Supervision of academic work, including doctoral theses, master's dissertations, internships and other student supervision activities; initiatives aimed at innovation and enhancement of teaching quality, including actions to improve teaching and learning processes, quality assurance procedures, the creation of new programmes or curricular units, and curricular restructuring; specialised national and international advanced training relevant to the disciplinary field; and pedagogical publications and teaching materials (10 %).

C. Other activities relevant to the University's mission (20 %);

Within this dimension, candidates shall be assessed based on the following parameters:

a) Holding academic posts and performing academic duties, including serving on academic governing bodies, carrying out coordination activities, and participating in academic and scientific committees and working groups appointed by the governing bodies (10 %).

b) Organisation of educational and science outreach events; community engagement activities; science communication initiatives; and other university extension activities relevant to the mission of FP-ULisboa (10 %).

D. Scientific and pedagogical project (10 %).

Candidates shall submit a Scientific and Pedagogical Project describing the research and teaching activities they intend to undertake, building upon their previous work, explaining the rationale and motivations underlying their choices, and demonstrating their contribution to the scientific and pedagogical development of FP-ULisboa.

The Scientific and Pedagogical Project must be aligned with the research lines of the Centre for Psychological Science Research (CICPSi) and take into consideration the educational programmes offered by FP-ULisboa.

The Scientific and Pedagogical Project must be explicitly and appropriately grounded in the candidate's scientific contributions to the disciplinary area of the competition and demonstrate an original and innovative vision for its future development, providing evidence that the candidate possesses the competence required for the performance of the duties associated with the rank of Full Professor in the respective disciplinary area.

The Scientific and Pedagogical Project shall therefore include:

a) Presentation of the main research problems that the candidate intends to address in future research activities, contextualised within the current state of the art in the disciplinary area;

b) A concise and structured description of the research strategies that the candidate intends to adopt in order to develop such research and contribute to addressing the identified problems;

c) A clear explanation of the rationale and motivations underlying those choices;

d) Presentation of the main pedagogical initiatives to be developed in the future, including the candidate's proposed coordination, participation and leadership roles.

The Scientific and Pedagogical Project shall not exceed 5,000 words, including annexes and references, shall be written using a font size of at least 11 points, double spacing and 2 cm margins, excluding the bibliography.

6 - In the ranking process of the candidates in this Public Tender, each Jury member produces a list of candidates in descending order of merit

7 - The Jury votes initially for the first place, then for the second place, and so on, until the final ranking of all candidates admitted to the Public Tender and previously approved on absolute merit. In each voting, the Jury’s decisions are taken by absolute majority vote and the methodology for the ranking of the candidates is the one stated in No. 5 of article 20 of the ULisboa Regulation, in compliance with the provisions of article 17.

8 - Once the evaluation and ranking criteria have been applied, the Jury will draw up a unitary list of the final ranking of candidates.

VI — Preferential parameters

For the purposes of drawing up the ranking list referred to in point 6 of the previous Chapter, in the event of a tie, preference shall be given to the result obtained under Criterion A, subparagraph a), of paragraph 5 of Chapter V.

VII — Public hearings

1 - The Jury may promote public hearings, on equal terms, to candidates approved on absolute merit which are intended, exclusively, to clarify issues related to the documents presented by the candidates, in compliance with paragraph b), No. 4 of article 50 of the ECDU. In this case, the hearings will take place between the 15th and the 25th working day after the end of the admission process on absolute merit.

2 - The Jury, whenever it deems necessary, may ask the candidate to submit additional documents supporting the candidate’s statements, which may be relevant to the analysis and classification of his/her application, in accordance with paragraph a), No. 4, article 50 of the ECDU.

VIII — Submission of applications

Applications must be delivered personally, up to 30 working days following the publication of the present Notice in Diário da República, from 10:00 to 12:30 and from 14:00 to 16:30, to the Human Resources Divison of the Faculdade de Psicologia, located at Alameda da Universidade, Cidade Universitária, 1649-013 Lisboa, or sent by registered mail with acknowledgment of receipt, within the same period, to the same address.

IX - Application instructions

1 - Candidates must submit their application with a written application form, available online at https://www.psicologia.ulisboa.pt/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/FP-FORMULARIO-DE-CANDIDATURA-Docentes.pdf, addressed to the Director of the Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa, and including the identification of this Notice, full name, number and date of identity card or citizen card, taxpayer identification number, date and place of birth, profession, residence and contact address, including the e-mail address and phone number.

2 - In the application form, candidates must indicate their consent so that the communications and notifications in the context of this Public Tender can occur by electronic mail, to the e-mail address specified in the application.

3 - The application form, which is mandatory, must be fully filled, dated and undersigned and shall be accompanied by the documents mentioned below, in paragraphs a) to c), and must be delivered exclusively, in digital format (pen drive), and in pdf format, otherwise the application won’t be considered:

a) The candidate’s curriculum vitae, describing their activities in the areas of Scientific Achievement, Teaching Ability and Performance in other activities relevant to the mission of the higher education institution, taking into account the assessment criteria set out in Chapter V of this call for applications, and which are considered relevant to the subject area for which the post is advertised (incorrectly cited and/or incomplete references, or those that are undated or cannot be objectively verified, will be disregarded in the assessment). The curriculum vitae must highlight the publications or works that the candidate considers most representative, particularly with regard to their contribution to the development and evolution of the academic discipline for which the post is advertised, taking into account the provisions of Chapter V of this call for applications. This selection must be accompanied by a brief explanatory description in which the candidate sets out their contribution.

b) Publications/works mentioned in the curriculum vitae which the candidate considers most representative, up to a maximum of five.

c) Scientific and Pedagogical Project as described in Chapter V (point D) of this Call for Applications.

4 - Failure to comply with the deadline set for the submission of the application, as well as the lack of submission or the late submission of the documents required in the previous paragraphs will determine the exclusion of the application.

5 - The candidates ranked 1st and 2nd position of the unitary list of the final ranking shall deliver to the Human Resources Division, as stated in the declaration on honour on the form, the documents supporting that the legally required conditions for the establishment of a legal public employment relationship of indefinite duration with the Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa are met, within the non-extendable deadline of 10 working days, counting from the date of the notification for delivering the mentioned documents, as established in article 26 of the ULisboa Regulation.

X — Language

The documents supporting the application must be presented in Portuguese or English.

XI — Composition of the Jury

In accordance with articles 45 and 46 of the ECDU, and article 14 of the ULisboa Regulation, the Jury is composed by the following members:

Chairman: Reitor da Universidade de Lisboa

Other members:

Doutor Pedro José Sales Luís Fonseca Rosário, Professor Catedrático da Escola de Psicologia da Universidade do Minho;

Doutora Sílvia Costa Agostinho da Silva, Professora Catedrática da ISCTE Business School do ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa;

Doutor Paulo Manuel Pinto Pereira Almeida Machado, Professor Catedrático da Escola de Psicologia da Universidade do Minho;

Doutora Maria Manuela Pedro Veríssimo, Professora Catedrática do Departamento de Psicologia da Escola de Psicologia e Ciências do Comportamento do ISPA - Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida;

Doutora Maria Manuela de Amorim Calheiros, Professora Catedrática da Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa.

The Director of the Faculty of Psychology

Professora Doutora Ana Sofia Santos

Where to apply

Website: https://www.psicologia.ulisboa.pt/sobre/rh/concursos/#OE202610-0124

Requirements

Research Field: Psychological sciences » Psychology

Education Level: PhD or equivalent

Languages: PORTUGUESE

Level: Good

Additional Information

Website for additional job details: https://diariodarepublica.pt/dr/detalhe/edital-extrato/1236-2026-1176996892

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available: 2

Company/Institute: FACULDADE DE PSICOLOGIA DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA

Country: Portugal

State/Province: Lisboa

City: LISBOA

Postal Code: 1649-013

Street: Alameda da Universidade

Contact

City: LISBOA

Website: https://www.psicologia.ulisboa.pt/

Street: Alameda da Universidade

Postal Code: 1649-013

E-Mail: recursoshumanosfp@psicologia.ulisboa.pt

Phone: 217943785