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DOCTORAL EDUCATION
at UNIVERSITE DE LYON
17 doctoral schools in all fields
of research
5,500 Doctoral students
10% under a PhD joint
Agreement (« cotutelle »)
900 thesis defended per year
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Our scientific scope
A multidisciplinary approach for exploring 3 central themes :
 Global Health and Society
 Modeling of complex systems
 Sciences and Engineering for sustainable Development
Means : 16 « LABEX »- Labs of Excellence
(created through « Investments for the Future » national programme, 2011)
They bring together research teams from different disciplines and
receive funds to invest in innovative equipements and to recruit PhD
students, post-docs and Senior scientists.
http://imagine.universite-lyon.fr/labex/
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Our International Policy
Internationalization of doctoral studies by:
Supporting inwards and outwards mobility of doctoral students &
scientists
Encouraging thesis under Joint Phd Agreements (« cotutelles »)
Developing international joint PhD programmes :
- Erasmus Mundus Doctorate in Sustainable Chemistry
- « PhD track » with Universität Passau and Università di Milano in
Computer Sciences & Engineering
- Project of PhD in Economics with Università di Torino
Fundings from Rhone-Alpes Region and Université de Lyon :
- Mobility grants for doctoral students (3 to 6 months), postdocs & scientists
(3 to 10 months)- inwards and outwards
- French language courses for doctoral students and scientists
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Doctoral school EPIC
Education, Psychology, Information & communication
Dr: Pr. André ROBERT
404 PhD students
37 ongoing Cotutelles
99 thesis supervisors
32 thesis defended/year
5,5 years: average duration of a thesis
8 Research Units
1 LABEX : ASLAN
(Advanced studies on
language complexity)
Main themes of research :
Pratiques cliniques de terrain, appréhension des différents
dispositifs de soin.
Santé, société, handicap, vieillissement.
Psychologie sociale et du travail.
Identités, langages et pratiques médiatiques ; bibliothèques et
documents numériques, médiations.
Politiques éducatives, identités et professionnalités enseignantes,
diversité et inclusion, arts à l’école.
Etude du phénomène scientifique, didactique.
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Doctoral School PHILO
Philosophy: History, Representation,
Societal invention
Dr: Pr. Bruno PINCHARD
186 PhD students
27 ongoing Cotutelles
27 thesis supervisors
thesis defended/year
Research Units
1 LABEX : COMOD
(Constitution of Modernity)
Main themes of research :
Post Modernism : Nietsche, Foucault, Deleuze
Modern thought : Spinoza, Leibniz, Malebranche, Giambattista
Vico, Hegelian studies
Renaissance : Ficino, Machiaveli, Rabelais, Giordano Bruno,
Medieval studies : dantology, Thomism, Cajetan
Western Esotericism and German Idealism :Fichte, Shelling, Heigel
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Doctoral school NsCO
Neuroscience & Cogntion
Dr: Pr. Rémi Gervais
130 PhD students
32 foreign students
10 ongoing Cotutelles
88 thesis supervisors
28 thesis/year
7 Research Units
1 LABEX : CORTEX
(Construction, cognitive function
and rehabilitation of brain)
KEY WORDS:
Neurobiology, neuropharmacology, clinical neurosciences
Psychiatry, neuroimaging, cognitives neurosciences
Neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, neurolinguistics
Neural modeling, artificial intelligence
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Université de Lyon in EUROPE
Lyon, 2nd largest metropolitan
area in France (2,118 000
people)
2 hours from Paris
1H45 from Marseille
1H30 from Geneva
www.universite-lyon.fr