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ESPCI Paris - PSL
ESPCI Paris - PSL is a major institution of higher education (a French "Grande École d’ingénieurs"), an internationally renowned research center, and a fertile ground of innovation for industry. Founded by the City of Paris in 1882, for over a century the School has attracted leading scientific innovators like Nobel Prize laureates Pierre and Marie Curie, Paul Langevin, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, and Georges Charpak, who continue to contribute to the institution’s international reputation. The School’s culture of excellence remains as vibrant as ever. Fully 60% of (...)
Educational programs
Welcome to PSL University! By joining ESPCI paris- PSL, you also join PSL university and its 17 000 students. You get access to an exceptionnel education in sciences, arts, litterature and culture. From Bachelor to PhD, academic programs cover all the fields from sciences, human and social sciences, engineering and arts. PSL targets high-potential students, from every horizon, an accompagnies them towards excellence. Your education will be operated by ESPCI paris - PSL, and your degree delivered by PSL University. Discover the education programs of PSL University Ingénieur ESPCI Paris - (...)
Research
ESPCI Paris - PSL is home to 10 research laboratories (all of them being endorsed and jointly sponsored by CNRS) operating at the frontiers of scientific knowledge and experimental know-how, extending from fundamental research to innovation, and covering areas ranging from polymers to telecommunications, from nanobiophysics to organic synthesis, from environmental science to biomedical imaging, from neurobiology to microfluidics, from soft matter to quantum physics, and from colloids to prototyping for industry. ESPCI researchers publish around 500 scientific articles in leading (...)
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- Entrepreneurship and business start-ups
ESPCI: generating innovation and jobs ESPCI is also known for its capacity to encourage major innovations. Did you know that as well as radium, polonium, actinium and lutecium, many other objects from our everyday lives were first discovered or created at ESPCI, like the neon tube, the black box, the quartz watch, sonar, wireless technology, self-healing rubber or even ultrafast ultrasound imaging? An entrepreneurial culture More and more graduates create their own companies after graduation or after their PhD. This capacity to innovation is highly valued today. ESPCI courses (...)
Internationalisation
The Department of International Relations is pursuing the intellectual globalisation in postgraduate education and interdisciplinary research, ambitioned since the foundation of our institution, and welcoming the most talented people from around the world. We are focusing on branding of the iconic French elite engineering education and boosting european and international mobilities throughout the world-distinguished institutions. French Engeering Degree webpage Master Programme webpage Doctoral Study (...)
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ESPCI Paris is at the center of a large network of partnering agreements. These are three-way institutional partnerships - notably with the City of Paris, and ParisTech -, as well as academic, scientific and industrial partnerships enriched by the School’s energy, expertise and creativity. The commitment to transdisciplinarity extends beyond the School’s Paris campus. Today’s complex scientific and technological issues often demand a broader view and collaboration, with the deployment of complementary, hybrid approaches and the sharing of best practices in order to pool resources and (...)

News

Exceptional events | 01/10/2015

PHASME 2016: Summer School on Physics and Mechanics of Soft Complex Materials

We are pleased to announce that the International Summer School on Physics and Mechanics of Soft Complex Materials (PHASME, August 8-20, 2016, Cargese, France) is open for application. This 10-day school aims at the formation of students and researchers with a double culture in physics and Read more

Exceptional events, Partnerships, Students | 23/09/2015

Arkema, sponsor of the ESPCI’s 134^th promotion

The french leader group in chemistry Arkema succeeds Withings, French flagsphip of connected objects for Health, as the sponsor of the new promotion.

Research | 15/09/2015

Scientists found a new link between sugar and drowsiness

Contrary to what one might think, sugar promotes sleepiness and not hyperactivity. There may be a good reason to sleep after a high-sugar meal. That is the conclusion of a new study published by neuroscientists at ESPCI ParisTech in collaboration with the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center. This study demonstrates that glucose promotes sleep by activating the neurons responsible for sleep onset and maintenance. These neurons integrate energetic signals such as ambient glucose directly to regulate vigilance states accordingly. This work was published in the Journal of Neuroscience.

Research | 10/09/2015

Soda cans based networks to imagine new superlenses

What does happen when one blows in a soda can? An almost pure tone is generated, a signature that it resonantly interacts with audible sound. At a different scale, a similar phenomenon occurs when a light wave interacts with a material. The interaction depends on two criteria: the chemical composition of the material, and its atomic structure.

Researchers from the Institut Langevin (ESPCI ParisTech, CNRS) have developed an original experiment based on honeycomb arrangements of soda cans to create an acoustic superlens. Their work was published in the renowned Nature journal on september 4th, paving the way for new research in the field of composite materials.

Innovation, Life at ESPCI Paris | 07/09/2015

A gender-equal start to the year

50%. This is the percentage of female students present in the ESPCI’s 134th promotion of 2015. For the first time in the school’s history, the traditional male tendency of engineer schools is overturned.

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