Doctoral School Astronomy and Astrophysics for Paris Area

All information on the 2021 Doctoral School competition is available in the enrolment menu.

The doctoral school

The Doctoral School offers physics and mathematics students training in the broad interdisciplinary field of Astronomy and Astrophysics through all of its methods of observation, measurement and computation. The subject area continues to grow every year, covering planets to cosmology, using a wide variety of advanced tools preparing for next generation instruments.

The programme prepares students for all activities in research and related fields, and also for teaching, various cutting edge industries, computer science, instrumentation, communications and other fields.

Each year, about 50 new students come from all over the word and a large number of Master degrees to begin a PhD in one of our laboratories within the Paris area. Grants from a variety of sources ensure that all students can finance their doctoral studies.

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  • It is with great sadness that we learn of the sudden death of Manuel Berthet on Friday 3 December in a tragic road accident. The accident that took his life also seriously injured his partner Maud, whose life is not in danger. Their one-year-old child, Silvère, was unharmed.

A former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, Manuel had completed the Master 2 AAIS course in 2011-2012, before passing the agrégation in physics in 2013. He then started a PhD thesis in the radio astronomy laboratory of the ENS, which he chose to interrupt in 2017 to devote himself fully to teaching.

Manuel was a teacher in preparatory classes at the lycée Chrestien de Troyes.

The physics department of the ENS, and in particular the astrophysics team, his former comrades and colleagues of the preparation to the agrégation of physics of Montrouge, as well as the whole doctoral school, associate themselves with the pain of his family and present them their most sincere condolences.

The farewell ceremony will take place at the Crematorium of Mâcon (Saône-et-Loire), on Monday 13 December at 10:30 am. Manuel would have been 32 years old on that day.

  • 26 November 2021: Opening of the 2022 call for thesis projects. PhD advisor can submit their PhD projects on their ADUM account up to January 30th, 2022.
  • 05 July 2021. Accepted for a doctoral contract: AUCLAIR Constant, BALLERINI Giulio, BARRÈRE Paul, BRIGHI Emile, CERARDI Nicolas, COULON Xavier, GALLO Stefano, GODINAUD Leïla, GUERRA Corentin, HAFFOUD Paolo, HENAULT Elsa, KONAKA Mina, LALLEMENT Manon, LAPEL Axel, MASSON Adrien, MANZINI Davide, MAUDUIT Emilie, MERIOT Romain, PAGNINI Giulia, PANEK Emilie, SACCARDI Andrea, TEINTURIER Lucas, TOURENQ Sébastien, VERMERSCH Julie
  • 05 July 2021 Waiting liste by alphabetical order: ABD EL DAYEM Karim, GUÉ Jordan, GOLDMANN Serena, HUET Paul, JOLLY Rodrigo, KHALIL Yassin Rany, LOMAZZI Paul, MAKNAVICIUS Monika, MARIANI Vincenzo, ROTH Olivier, VEILLET Roméo, YOUSFI Fayin
  • 09 june 2021: Apply for teaching missions at Université de Paris. Deadline, 30th June, 5pm
  • 20 May 2021 : Apply for teaching missions at Observatoire de Paris. Deadline, 16th June
  • 18 May 2021: Congratulations to Mathias Nowak, Olivier Chesneau Prize 2021 for his PhD thesis entitled: "The 2017 conjunction of Beta Pictoris b: the life and death of PicSat, followed by a VLTI/GRAVITY observation of the re-emergence" at Paris Observatory
  • 1 February 2021: The AAIF ED competition is open. Please apply before 22 April 2021, 5pm. The rules, subjects, can be found in the enrolment page.
  • 29 January 2021: The call for doctoral contracts of the Physics of Infinite initiative runs until 20 February https://ipi-sorbonne-universite.fr/2021-cpd-ipi-procedure/
  • 4 January 2021: The ED AAIF wish you a happy new year.
  • 1 December 2020: PhD advisor can submit their PhD projects up to Januray 31st, 2021.

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