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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 (…)
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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 (…)
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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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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 (…)
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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 (…)

2019

Research | 30/04/2019

How memories are formed and encoded in the brain network?

A few months ago, a new neuroscientist professor was appointed at ESPCI Paris to strengthen the Brain Plasticity Unit: Gisella Vetere. After a PhD in Italy and a postdoc in Toronto where she worked on memory consolidation in mice, she decided to join the school. “Students here at ESPCI are very

Research | 16/04/2019

Healing neurological disorders with ultrasound

When therapeutic drugs are inefficient, modulating the neural activity is one of the main alternative for treating neurological disorders. While existing techniques are invasive and inaccurate, researchers of the laboratory Physics for Medicine Paris (Inserm, ESPCI Paris, PSL University, CNRS), in

Research | 15/04/2019

Probing quicksand with ultrasound

Involved in phenomena such as quicksand, soil liquefaction is a phenomenon that still holds mysteries. Researchers at Institut Langevin (CNRS, ESPCI Paris, PSL University) shed new light on this phenomenon, showing that it could be caused by vibration-induced lubrication between soil grains. This

Awards, Research | 09/04/2019

Major funding for prebiotic evolution research programme

The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization recently announced 35 $ million over the next 3 years to support pioneering work on the complex mechanisms of living organisms. 34 grants were attributed over 814 applications. Among the winners, the project carried by Philippe Nghe at

Exceptional events, Research | 29/03/2019

TAU-ESPCI Paris Summer School

Tel Aviv University and ESPCI Paris have had fruitful collaborations for several years, especially for research projects. From 8th to 12th September 2019, an International Summer School will take place at Tel-Aviv in this framework on the development of self-assembly and self-organization in

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