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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, ambitioned since the foundation of our institution, in postgraduate education and interdisciplinary research, 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 webpage
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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 (…)

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Life at ESPCI Paris | 17/11/2023

Guillaume Pakula, founder of Project Celsius and former student of the school."

Guillaume Pakula, the ’Founder’ of Projet Celsius, a scientific and educational consulting firm specializing in environmental issues, graduated from ESPCI in 2016. In January 2023, he conducted a highly successful course on ecological transition within the school.

Research | 05/10/2023

Korotkoff sounds: a century-old enigma of physics is finally solved

Invented over a century ago, it certainly is the most common clinical examination: each one of us already had its blood pressure measured using an inflatable cuff and a stethoscope. However, the fundamental principle of this measurement remained until now a mystery in the world of physics. Researchers from the Institute Physics for Medicine Paris (Inserm, ESPCI Paris-PSL, CNRS – France) have solved this enigma by studying in details the mechanical phenomena occurring in the arm when blood pressure is measured. The results are published on October 4th 2023, in frontpage of Science Advances.

Exceptional events | 04/10/2023

ESPCI Paris - PSL hosted the Falling Walls competition

Three minutes to convince, no more! Falling Walls is a renowned international academic competition where verbosity has no place. Competitors face off through very short 3-minute speeches presenting their research topics and work. A jury composed of professionals from the academic world then deliberates to determine the winner, who will be offered a spot in the competition finals in Berlin next month. We offer you a summary of the projects that caught the jury’s attention.

Exceptional events | 09/05/2023

May 22nd: Lecutre by Steven Chu

Exceptional events | 16/03/2023

March 27: Day in honor of José Eduardo Wesfreid

On March 27, there will be a day-long workshop in honor of Jose Eduardo Wesfreid, researcher at the PMMH Lab for more than 40 years. We will begin at 9:00 in lecture hall 25 at Sorbonne University (Jussieu) and will end with a cocktail 18:00-20:00 in the Tour Zamansky. Registration via email at

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