MINUTE OF JURY SELECTION
Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (BI-PD) funded by Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation
On November 28, 2024, at 10:00 am, the jury selection formed by Karina Xavier, Isabel
Gordo Teixeira, and Tanja Dapa met to analyze the applications for a postdoctoral
fellowship funded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
The call was open from 06/10/2023 until 14/11/2023. The jury analyzed the documents
included in the applications found attached to these minutes.
The call received 19 applications that were classified with the following way:NameFullapplicationCV andpreviousexperience(60%)

Motivation
letter (20%)

Evaluation(máx. 80%)

1 – Miguel Osset Alvarez

Yes

55

2075

2 – Pilar Navarro

Yes

50

2070

3 – Raphael Defaix

Yes

40

2060

4 – Parkash S. Rawat

Yes

35

1550

5 - Balwant Singh Paliya

Yes

35

1550

6 - Riffat Shamim Aslam

Yes

30

1545

7 – Carolina Vaso

Yes

30

1040

8 - Victoria Helena Navas Gil

Yes

30

1040

9 – Deepti Sharma

Yes

25

1035

10-Yagani Jayavardhana Rao

Yes

25

530

11- Anand Raj

Yes

25

530

12- Salman Khan

Yes

25

530

13-Idris N. Abdullahi

Not Eligible

NENE

NE

14- Ankur Sood

Not Eligible

NENE

NE

15-Mohamed Amin

Not Eligible

NENE

NE

16- Mohamed El Badry

Not Eligible

NENE

NE

17-Muhammad Imran

Not Eligible

NENE

NE

18-Muhammad Umair Ijaz

Not Eligible

NENE

NE

19-Charu

Not Eligible

NE

NE

NE

After considering all applications, the jury convened to interview candidates 1, 2 and 3.
Candidates marked with * were not considered eligible because these candidates alreadymore than 3 years after defending their PhD or did not yet have a PhD.

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The interviews occurred via Zoom on December 08 and 13, 2023 and January 16, 2024.
The ranking after the interviews was the following:
Evaluation(max 60%) - grade-% of the total
evaluation of theprevious table

Interview(max. 40%)
– grade1 – Miguel Osset Alvarez

6040100

2 – Pilar Navarro

553085

Candidate declined theofferNot Eligible

3 – Raphael Defaix

503080Accepted the Position

NameTotal

Comments

After the interviews, the jury considered all three candidates suitable for the position andoffered the position to candidate number 1. However, the candidate decided not to accept
the position. Following that, we offered the position to the second candidate; while
confirming the dates of the documentation to access the candidate's full eligibility, webecame aware that she was no longer eligible as she had defended her Ph.D. on October
19, 2020, i.e., according to the IGC regulation for a scientific research fellowship, bullet 3.
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (BI-PD). This type of fellowship is intended for
doctorates whose academic degree was obtained less than three years ago for thedevelopment of advanced research work. Finally, we offered the position to candidate
number 3, Raphael Defaix, who is eligible. During the interview the Raphael revealed tohave an experience that is very suitable to the position. We offered the position to Raphael
Defaix, by email on January 22, he accepted the position by email correspondence onJanuary 23.
All the candidates were informed of the deliberations of the Jury until January 21, 2024.
If there are no complaints during the 10 working days following the publication of thisminute, the decisions herein communicated will be considered as effective.
There being no further matters to discuss, the meeting for which these minutes weredrawn up was closed and signed by all the members of the Jury.
Oeiras, February 22, 2024
Chair of the Jury - Karina B. Xavier

Jury member 1 – Isabel Gordo

Jury member 2 – Tanja Dapa

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No. Contrib. 500 745 684