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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 (…)
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
Support Us
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 (…)

Platforms

Welcome to the ESPCI Paris platforms page – a comprehensive guide to the technical and scientific facilities available.


The mechanical platform, shared by two institutions (ESPCI Paris PSL and Chimie-ParisTECH PSL), aims to help researchers design and build original experimental devices. It is headed by Ludovic Olanier, who coordinates its operations and collaborations. The platform has a 5-axis machining centre, a multi-axis digital lathe, a CO2 laser cutter, several 3D printers and a micro-milling machine. The platform works in collaboration with the IPGG teams and a self-service area is available to researchers who wish to use it (upon request). Please feel free to contact us by clicking here. Please do not hesitate to contact us by clicking here. For more information → https://atelier-mecanique.espci.fr/
The Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) platform is shared by ESPCI Paris PSL and IPGG. It is managed by Bruno Bresson, who provides training, technical support and scientific advice. It is open to start-ups, companies, research institutes and universities subject to a fee. This platform consists of two Thermofisher SEMs, the Magellan 400, dedicated to high-resolution measurements, and the Quattro S, which can perform measurements in high vacuum as well as in degraded vacuum and in environments with variable water vapour pressure (up to saturated vapour pressure) thanks to a Peltier module. The SEMs are equipped with several detectors, an Everhart-Thornley ETD secondary electron detector, an LVD detector dedicated to degraded vacuum (water vapour) detection, a DBS detector, a directional backscattered electron detector, a STEM 3 detector dedicated to transmission imaging, a retractable and segmented detector (Bright Field, Dark Field and High Angle Dark Field) detector, and a WetSTEM detector with an integrated Peltier stage that allows transmission detection in a temperature-controlled environment. In addition, the Quattro is also equipped with an EDS detector for chemical analysis. Please feel free to contact us at the following email address: bruno.bresson@espci.fr

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