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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 | 04/08/2022

Sensing the whole brain neuronal activity at the micron scale

Life at ESPCI Paris | 27/07/2022

Science and politics: conversation with Steven Chu

In March this year, the ISC (International Scientific Committee) gathered at ESPCI Paris - PSL to discuss the evolution of teaching and research. For the occasion, Steven Chu, professor at Stanford, Nobel laureate, Former Secretary of Energy in the Obama administration, and chairman of the ISC Read more

Internaional, Students | 22/06/2022

Portrait - Lilia Bouraoui, 3rd year engineer at ESPCI Paris-PSL

For the International Women in Engineering Day, we are very happy to meet with Lilia Bouraoui, a student-engineer with a double degree in engineering from ESPCI Paris - PSL and in atomic engineering from Mines Paris - PSL. Passionate about the nuclear industry, she completed her first Read more

Life at ESPCI Paris | 22/06/2022

Pierre Curie, inventor and researcher of genius

Pierre Curie was born on 15 May 1859 in Paris. Famous for his research on radioactivity and his talents as an experimenter and instrument designer, his dreamy personality did not predestine him to such a future in this field. In 1903, he and his wife, Marie Sklodowska-Curie, were awarded the Read more

Internaional | 22/06/2022

Mickaël Tanter, visiting professor at Caltech

Every year, the prestigious Caltech University (California Institute of Technology, USA) relies on the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to invite foreign professors. This year, Mickaël Tanter, director of the Physics for Medicine Paris laboratory (ESPCI Paris-PSL, Inserm, CNRS) was chosen. This Read more

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