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One Research Fellowship for a PhD student
IA2026-01-BI-D
The Centro de Investigação em Astronomia/Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto (CAUP) opens a call for one Research Fellowship in the field of Astronomy/Astrophysics at the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).

The position is offered in the context of the Funding for R&D Units, funded by Portuguese funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (reference  UID/04434/2025).
Applications from 2 to 27 February
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One Research Fellowship for a Master Student in the field of Extragalactic Astronomy
IA2026-03-BI-M
The Centro de Investigação em Astronomia/Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto (CAUP) opens a call for one Research Fellowship in the field of Astronomy/Astrophysics - Extragalactic Astronomy at the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).

The position is offered in the context of the project ''Exploring the connection between starburst activity and extended nebular halos in galaxies'', funded by Portuguese funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (reference  2024.17990.PEX).
Applications from 13 to 27 February
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One Research Initiation Fellowship (BII) for a Bachelor’s Student in the field of Extragalactic Astrophysics and Machine Learning
IA2026-05-BII
The Centro de Investigação em Astronomia/Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto (CAUP) opens a call for one Research Initiation Fellowship in the field of Astronomy/Astrophysics – Extragalactic Astrophysics and Machine Learning at the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).

The position is offered in the context of the project ''PLATES – Powering the search of LAEs with transformers for large-scale extragalactic surveys'', funded by Portuguese funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (reference  2024.05289.RESTART).
Applications from 20 February to 5 March
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One Research Fellowship (BI) for a Master’s Student in the field of Extragalactic Astrophysics and Machine Learning
IA2026-06-BI-M
The Centro de Investigação em Astronomia/Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto (CAUP) opens a call for one Research Fellowship in the field of Astronomy/Astrophysics – Extragalactic Astrophysics and Machine Learning at the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).

The position is offered in the context of the project ''PLATES – Powering the search of LAEs with transformers for large-scale extragalactic surveys”, funded by Portuguese funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (reference  2024.05289.RESTART).
Applications from 20 February to 5 March
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One Research Fellowship (BI) for a Master’s degree holder in the field of Extragalactic Astrophysics and Machine Learning
IA2026-07-BI
The Centro de Investigação em Astronomia/Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto (CAUP) opens a call for one Research Fellowship in the field of Astronomy/Astrophysics – Extragalactic Astrophysics and Machine Learning at the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).

he position is offered in the context of the project ''PLATES – Powering the search of LAEs with transformers for large-scale extragalactic surveys'', funded by Portuguese funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (reference  2024.05289.RESTART).
Applications from 20 February to 5 March
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Three Research Fellowships in the field of Cosmology
IA2026-08-BI
The Centro de Investigação em Astronomia/Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto (CAUP) opens a call for three Research Fellowships in the field of Astronomy/Astrophysics – Observational Cosmology at the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).

Each position is offered in the context of the project “Phi in the Sky: Astrophysical Probes of Fundamental Physics”, funded by Portuguese funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (reference  2022.04048.PTD).
Applications from 27 February to 13 March
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ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE OPENING OF AN INTERNATIONAL CALL TO HIRE ONE POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER UNDER DECREE-LAW Nº 57/2016, ALTERED BY LAW Nº 57/2017
IA2026-04-CTTI
The Centro de Investigação em Astronomia/Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto (CAUP), by decision of the Board of Directors, opens an international call to hire a postdoctoral researcher, as part of the activities held at Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), in the area of Astronomy/Astrophysics - field of Extragalactic Astronomy, under an unfixed-term contract (contrato de trabalho a termo incerto).

The position is offered in the context of the project "Exploring the connection between starburst activity and extended nebular halos in galaxies", funded by Portuguese funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (reference 2024.17990.PEX).
Applications from 16 February to 16 March
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FCT PhD Fellowships 2026
IA2026-09-BD-FCT
The Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) has opened a call for PhD fellowships. Applications can be submitted until 31 March 2026.
Applications from 26 February to 31 March
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Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia COMPETE 2020 PORTUGAL 2020 União Europeia