Selection

Doctoral School Competition

The Astronomy and Astrophysics Doctoral School receives 20 full doctoral contracts (1600 euros net per month for 3 years) from its different universities. These contracts are awarded through a joint competition that takes place every spring.

Calendar of the 2024 competition
  • Applications must be submitted by 19 April 2024, 23h59 CEST.
  • Applications will be examined by the jury on 14 May 2024. Selection will be based on academic results, suitability of the training for the thesis subject, letters of recommendation.
  • The selected candidates will be invited to an audition which will take place on 28, 29, 30 May 2024, and 3 & 4 June 2024.
  • All contracts will be awarded by the final jury on 5 June 2024.
  • The Doctoral School Board will validatethe results before they are published on line.
  • The selected candidates have one week to accept or refuse the contract offered to them
Application

Applications must be submitted on the Doctoral School website (application) between February 1st and April 19th, 2024

Course of the audition

The audition lasts 20 minutes. A 12-minute presentation should outline previous research experiences (their scientific objectives, methodologies used and results obtained) and should show that the candidate understands the issues at stake in the proposed topic and how they are able to make a significant contribution to it. Typically, the candidate will spend 2 minutes introducing him/herself, 5 minutes describing his/her research experiences (mainly the M2 internship) and 5 minutes on the thesis topic and its issues.

The presentation will be followed by 8 minutes of questions.

The auditions will take place via Zoom only.

Jury

On June 5th, the jury will award all available contracts and will constitute a waiting list, the ranking of which is not disclosed. Selected candidates are asked to respond to this proposal within a week to allow for the proper management of withdrawals.

Actualités

  • Candidats et candidates en liste principale financés par le concours de l’ED AAIF : ABDO Eddy, AKIB Istiak Hossain, ASHIMBEKOVA Aishabibi, BARALDI Edoardo, BOIN Tristan, BRUCKMANN Franziska, CHERIER Erwan, CRASCALL-KENNEDY Lilian, CRYAN Sasha, EL-BEZ—SÉBASTIEN Noémie, GARNICHEY Marine, GOVEKAR Théo, JACOB Blaise, LE NAGAT NEHER Baptiste, LISSONI Michele, LIU Ziyu, LUKE Kevin, MAINDON Nathan, PERNET Emilie, PIERRE Sébastien, PILUSO Aurélien, PINEY Anthony, PRÉVOTAT Clément, RIZZI Felipe, SANGALLI Valentina, SYTY Angèle, TABARY Maxence, TORNATORE Félix, VENET Mathieu, ZENK Kai
  • Candidats et candidates en liste complémentaire au concours de l’ED AAIF, par ordre alphabétique : ANTHORE Adrien, BELLEC Alice, BELLOIR Léo, CHANDRA Surabhi, CHAWAK Chaitanya, CHOKAR Emma, DESOUBRIE Baptiste, DUSSERRE Tanguy, EL RHIRHAYI Anwar, GANESARATNAM Ganushan, GERASIMOV Ivan, GUILLAUME Claire, KALTIAINEN Aino, LAURENT Valentine, LING Chih Teng, NAMDAR Mohmmad Hossein, PAGES Matthieu, SALIBUR Estelle, SINGIRIKONDA Guru Sai Haveesh, VARSHA NATARAJAN Varsha, VOLOSHYN Petro
  • L’ED AAIF apprend avec tristesse le décès d’un de ses anciens, Paul de Fromont, qui avait effectué sa thèse au LUTH avec Jean-Michel Alimi en 2016. Nous présentons toutes nos condoléances à Diane, son épouse, et à tous ses proches.
  • La rentrée de l’ED AAIF se déroulera le 9 octobre 2023 à l’Observatoire de Paris, Campus de Meudon.
  • L’ED et PhDTalent organise un bilan de compétences à destinations des doctorants et doctorantes le 5 septembre 2023. Rapprochez vous de l’ED si cette formation vous intéresse.

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