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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 (...)
Innovation
- Inventions
- 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 (...)
International
The International Relations of ESPCI Paris - PSL aim to support the School’s policy and propose key strategies in response to the specificities of the school. In line with its identity, ESPCI Paris attaches great importance to collaborating with international institutions that capitalize on interdisciplinary research, innovation, basic and applied sciences. This central thread stimulates both didactic and scientific partnerships. ESPCI is a component school of PSL University. The objective of the international relations is to enable ESPCI Paris to develop the mobility of (...)
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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

Research | 01/02/2021

Sand transport and geomorphology on the surface of Mars

The transport of grains by the wind leads to the formation of dunes and ripples, which can be observed on beaches or deserts, but also on the surface of different planets or celestial objects (Mars, Comet Chury). A crucial point is that it is necessary to exceed a certain wind speed threshold Read more

Exceptional events | 21/01/2021

ParisTech International Summer School

ParisTech and its schools are organizing for the first time an International Summer School from July 1 to 16, 2021. The summer school is a great opportunity for international students to discover how French engineers are trained, and their contributions to key societal challenges. Preservation Read more

Research | 04/12/2020

Brain activity and repetitive behaviour

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them." In this quote, the philosopher A. Whitehead underlines the importance of automated low-level tasks when performing a complex and repetitive task. Tying shoelaces, writing, Read more

Awards | 01/12/2020

Several grants for Gisella Vetere

In 2018, Gisella Vetere was appointed professor at ESPCI Paris – PSL, at the Brain Plasticity Unit. In 2020, she won three grants for her promising work : the NARSAD BBRF young investigator grant supporting promising young scientists from all the world conducting neurobiological research, the Read more

Research | 02/11/2020

Paristech CSC PhD programme

In 2017, ParisTech and the China Scholarship Council (CSC) signed an agreement to fund thirty Chinese doctoral students wishing to carry out their thesis in one of the laboratories of the ParisTech schools. Since then, ParisTech launches the recruitment campaign for this program mid-October Read more

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