Invent the future at ESPCI ParisTech

ECOLE SUPERIEURE DE PHYSIQUE ET DE CHIMIE INDUSTRIELLES DE LA VILLE DE PARIS 1 “Make the choice of ESPCI Jean-François Joanny Director, ParisTech!” ESPCI ParisTech “Choose science and research and join an exceptional scientifi c community of over 530 teachers and researchers, with 9 laboratories on campus. You will walk in the footsteps of six Nobel prize-winners who did Research and taught at the school. You will be taught by the best specialists in physics, chemistry and biology and you can choose your own research fi elds. With more than one professor-researcher per student, ESPCI has the highest supervision ratio of all engineering schools in . ESPCI ParisTech has a unique teaching faculty based on an interdisciplinary Welcome to an exceptional approach and substantial interactions between teaching and research. Here, everything is brought together so that you can fully dedicate yourself to your passion for sciences, raising yourself to the highest level on the international environment for science stage. ESPCI is located in the very heart of Paris, in the Latin quarter on a campus that covers over 30,000 m2. It will be entirely renovated over the coming years. Choosing ESPCI ParisTech means joining some 90 students in Promotion 134 who will invent the science of tomorrow and perhaps create start-ups based on their discoveries. ESPCI ParisTech is an original engineering By joining our school of Nobel prize-winners, you will choose for yourself a life grande école, an internationally renowned of passion and science. research centre and a fertile ground of Choose ESPCI today... we're waiting for you! ” innovation for industry. Every year, it educates top level engineers in three fi elds: physics, ESPCI PARISTECH IS: chemistry and biology.

90 student-engineers per year 6 Nobel laureates The leading The school is a founding member of Paris engineering school in the Sciences et Lettres and ParisTech. 2 Shanghai Rankings patent per week 1 30,000 m of teaching 530 researchers, teacher-researchers, and research space post-doctors and PhD students

1 scientifi c publication 9 mixed research units 3 start-ups created per year per day AND SOON IT WILL BE YOU

2 3 At ESPCI ParisTech, the small size of the yearly intake (90 student-engineers) is a real antidote to anonymity. Students enjoy a privileged environment. Cohesion, close bonds with previous graduates, teachers and researchers... This encourages development and excellence. Life in the Latin Quarter

ince its creation in 1882, the Ecole chemistry, biology of course but also Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie medicine, computer science, human and social Industrielles has always been in the heart sciences. Within the 9 mixed research units (UMR / of Paris' 5th arrondissement, on rue CNRS), ESPCI researchers work everyday with their Vauquelin. The school covers 30,000 square counterparts from Ecole Normale Supérieure, Institut metres all of which are dedicated Curie, Collège de France, Ecole de Chimie de Paris, to teaching, pioneering research and Ecole des Mines et de l'Observatoire de Paris (federated technological innovation. Cohesion, close links with by the Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University Sprevious graduates, teachers and researchers... alliance) and also with the Pierre et Marie Curie this encourages development and excellence. University, Paris Diderot University and INSERM.

2 The school is an integral part of Studying at ESPCI means accessing to a scientific 30,000 m dedicated a scientific campus home to ma- campus and also being at the heart of an historic and jor Parisian research centres. On cosmopolitan area: the Latin Quarter. It means being to teaching, pioneering the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève at the centre of Paris culture, a short walk from the research and and within a 500m radius, the Jardin du Luxembourg, the Saint-Geneviève Library density and variety of subjects as well as the grand museums of Paris, its art-house Campus life technological innovation studied are unique: physics, cinemas and historic theatres… ●

Pioneers, designers and innovators since 1882

Marie Curie (researcher) Frédéric Joliot-Curie (ESCPI engineer) Pierre Gilles de Gennes (Director from 1976 to 2002) Nobel Prize for Chemistry Nobel Prize for Chemistry Nobel Prize for Physics 1911 - isolation of pure radium 1935 - artificial radioactivity Polymers, liquid crystals, soft matter ESPCI renovated 1911 1935 1991 2023 1882 Creation of the school

1903 1925 1992 2015

Pierre Curie (teacher-researcher) Paul Langevin (ESPCI engineer Georges Charpak and Marie Curie (researcher) and Director from 1925 to 1946) (Associate Professor) Nobel Prize for Physics Professor at the Collège de France Nobel Prize for Physics Particle chamber 1903 - discovery of radium Invention of sonar, Langevin's equation Class 134 90 student-engineers

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Attractive and dynamic associations and clubs

ASSOCIATIONS AND CLUBS are a great way to bring students closer together, creating a strong bond of friendship. They also offer the opportunity to discover new things, share experiences and generate a good balance between academic studies and personal life.

port plays a key role. Team sports (handball, football, basketball, rugby, etc.), individual sports (running, badminton, etc.), dance, astronomy, theatre, humanitarian and environmental 3 university halls for charities, social entrepreneurship, Science, photography, art, music, prototyping... All these activities are available at specifi c times during the THESE HORIZONTAL BONDS are supported by a community of three halls Sstudent-engineers' schedules. students of residence providing accommodation for students. The apartments, ranging from 18 to 35 m2, are single occupancy and Three teams manage the associations and clubs: fully furnished. the Bureau des élèves, the Bureau des sports and the Bureau des arts. It is up to students to be part of the various associations or to create a new club.

To connect with professional life, several structures encourage individual and group experimentation: • Le Kléber halls in Ivry-sur-Seine - The Forum horizon chimie brings together students Examples of the school's associations (44 Rue Raspail), direct to the school and businesses, on metro line 7 - Physique chimie avenir, ESPCI ParisTech's Junior and clubs Enterprise, has been offering its services to companies ● Bureau des Sports for over three decades. ● Physique-Chimie Avenir (PCA), the school's Junior Enterprise - The EPICS association (Public Exhibition of Scientifi c ● Forum Horizon Chimie, which brings students and businesses together, Inventions and Designs) involved a third of the school's opening the door to internships student-engineers in 2014 and organised two ● Gala, which organises the prestigious gala event every year exhibitions: "Moi, chercheur et inventeur" at the ● GRI (IT Managers - Gentils Responsables Informatiques) Palais de la Découverte and "Inventeurs d’avenirs" ● Theatre Club at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie ● ● Art Club ● EPICS: the association which organises exhibitions • Porte d’Orléans hall, known as • Crous Thionville halls in the 19th ● Start’n go: seminars and conferences "La Rèz", in Montrouge (7 rue Théophile arrondissement (26 rue de Thionville), ● Cinema Club Gautier), half an hour from the school, also on metro line 7 More activities ● "PC coup d’pouce", the school's humanitarian charity are the most popular. thanks to PSL ● Bekk, the school’s booklet ● Club Q, the school's culture club Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) is injecting a ● 4L Trophy new dynamic and encouraging exchanges ● Cooking Club with other establishments, in particular arts An extended and renovated campus schools that train professionals in music, dance, dramatic arts, decorative arts and cinema. With over 14,000 students, PSL's coming soon... partnership means we can reach the highest The construction of a completely renovated and larger campus will ensure ESPCI ParisTech to maintain an levels in very competitive sports events, innovative international centre for research and multidisciplinary training: a 21st century campus open to thanks to a critical mass of participants that the city and a symbol of Paris' scientifi c excellence. makes the most specialised activities feasible. A further 10,000 square metres for an ambitious architectural project, a genuine urban campus adapted to the requirements of teachers and researchers, a future-proof structure celebrating science and innovation.

6 7 Teaching methods at ESPCI ParisTech are completely different from anywhere else, offering student-engineers wide perspectives. An original 3+1 teaching approach

t ESPCI, the course covers four years. The two fi rst years are interdisciplinary and provide, as the core curriculum, solid foundations in biology, chemistry, physics, maths, economics, computer science and languages. Practical work is very important. Student-engineers choose a specialisation in their third Ayear: physics, chemistry, physical chemistry or biotechnology. The third year begins with a six- months industrial internship, followed by four months of specialised lessons and a second two to three-month internship in a research laboratory. For the fourth year, students are offered a broad choice Be taught of studies, in France or overseas: Masters, specialised Masters, double degrees, applied technology schools (IFP School, INSTN), MSc, MRes... Two out of three graduates continue their studies You will then choose the discipline with which with a PhD which lasts three years and, for one out you have the greatest affi nity. by the best of fi ve graduates, takes place overseas, at Princeton, MIT, Harvard or Cambridge, for example. This interdisciplinary teaching approach is also supported by a clever balance between fundamental AN ORIGINAL INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH and practical approaches. Experimental teaching ESPCI teaching is based on an interdisciplinary represents 50% of the teaching time. Here, facing approach. Our pure science courses have the each discipline as a reality and understanding through broadest curriculum to be found. Students discover experience becomes a second nature. Student- the rigour of physics and physical concepts, engineers familiarise themselves with a broad the complexity of biology and the originality of range of technique, from the spectrometer to the chemistry and its applications. chromatograph, from laser-optics to micro-fl uidics.

PIONEERING TEACHING METHODS ESPCI ParisTech's originality is also illustrated A few fi gures by its innovative teaching methods: Tutoring sessions. ESPCI is home to around 530 researchers, Student-engineers are educated through scientifi c teacher-researchers, post-docs and PhD students at its main site on rue research. Vauquelin. It has 9 mixed research units in the following disciplines: Beyond the physics-chemistry-biology interdisciplinary - Physics and materials studies approach, teaching at ESPCI ParisTech provides - Soft matter & chemistry student-engineers with the opportunity to drive their - Sciences and soft matter engineering education through laboratory work and tutorials. - Chemical biology innovation This innovation, introduced by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, - Neuroplasticity encourages students to work in small groups on a - Biological & proteomic mass spectroscopy subject chosen by a teacher-researcher and inspired - Gulliver by a research project. This initiative goes beyond the - Physics & mechanics of heterogeneous environments framework of the lecture concerned. - Langevin Institute "waves and images" Annual average volume of industry contracts: 11 million euros (2011) Consolidated budget: 57 million euros (2011)

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PROPORTION 2nd year OF BOYS / TAILORED ACADEMIC SUPPORT the frontiers of fundamental scientifi c knowledge BIOLOGY Physiology GIRLS Because of the small size of the yearly student intake, and industrial applications. They cover a wide range IN THE 133rd each student-engineer can enjoy tailored academic of fi elds from polymers to telecommunications, Cristalline materials PROMOTION support. Complementary teaching is given to student- from nano-bio-physics to organic synthesis, from Molecular characterisation techniques engineers from parallel courses, in subjects where their environmental science to biomedical imagery, from CHEMISTRY Chemistry of inorganic materials 71% initial studies were less advanced. Student-engineers neurobiology to microfl uidics, from soft matter to Colloidal liquids will of course have the opportunity for productive quantum physics. Analytical and bioanalytical sciences discussions with the Academic Affairs as well as with ESPCI ParisTech researchers continuously anticipate their elders, to establish and enrich their professional industry requirements to invent as pioneers in their Quantum physics paths. fi elds. They publish more than one article per day in Optics the best international scientifi c peer-reviewed journals. PHYSICS Fluid mechanics and transport physics RESEARCH AT THE HEART OF TEACHING This constant confrontation with industrial perspectives Mechanics of solids 29% ESPCI ParisTech has a history of breaking down barriers has generated a remarkable powerful entrepreneurial Waves and acoustics between chemistry, physics and biology and also culture that makes technological innovation an PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY Physics of polymers between fundamental research and useful applications. essential lever for commercial success. Scientists at The result is an exceptional scientifi c productivity. ESPCI ParisTech fi le one patent a week and every year MATHEMATICS AND Mathematics and noise processing Lessons + Seminars This is recognised by the Shanghai Ranking where create several start-ups to promote the inventions and NUMERICAL METHODS Numerical methods ESPCI ParisTech is listed as the leading French discoveries generated by their research ● SCIENCE PROJECTS AS A TEAM engineering school. English Practicals LANGUAGES, Another of the school's assets is the role Corporate structure of research. Teaching through research is gradually COMMUNICATION, ECONOMICS Career path taking on a vital importance. Project management ESPCI ParisTech is home to 9 pioneering research units, all associated with the CNRS, operating at 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 3rd year

CHEMISTRY PHYSICS PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY BIOTECHNOLOGIES Breakdown of hours of lessons/ practical work per subject CORE CURRICULUM English Essential finance 1st year Soft matter and development / rheology BIOLOGY Biochemistry and cellular biology Statistics / Statistics, modelling and chemometrics Organic chemistry 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 Organic compound identification CHEMISTRY Polymer chemistry Microfluidics Microfluidics / Molecular biotechnology / Colloids and biomolecules Theory of chemical bonds and groups Organic chemistry Physics of measurement Colloids and biomolecules and green chemistry Physics of measurement Electronics and process control Quantum chemistry Synthetic biology and system biology Electromagnetism and electrochemistry Biomechanics Physics of solids or Biophysics Inorganic chemistry PHYSICS Quantum physics and solid-state physics Waves in complex environments Physics of measurement / Medical imagery Statistical physics Advanced materials Waves in complex Molecular biotechnology environments / Transition of critical phases Bioanalytics, complex Applied mechanics Colloids and biomolecules Medical imagery and phenomena samples and miniaturisation 0 10 20 30 0 10 20 30 0 10 20 30 0 10 20 30 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY Thermodynamics Mathematics MATHEMATICS AND Linear systems and signals analysis Advanced organic chemistry Microfluidics or Advanced telecommunications NUMERICAL METHODS or Microfluidics Computer programming Polymer chemistry Relativity or or or SCIENCE PROJECTS AS A TEAM Transition of critical Medical imagery Lessons + Seminars Biophysics phases and phenomena Advanced materials or English Biomechanics or Physics of solids Biophysics Communication and social relations Bioanalytics, complex Biomechanics

LANGUAGES, Practicals OPTIONS samples and Numerical methods or Industrial property COMMUNICATION, miniaturisation for physics or Biophysics Innovation management Colloids and biomolecules ECONOMY 0 10 20 30 0 10 20 30 0 10 20 30 0 10 20 30 "Sciences, techniques and society" conferences Employment law 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 4th year The choice is broad for the 4th year spent in France or overseas: Masters, specialised Masters, double degrees, applied technology schools. Two out of three graduates continue their studies with a PhD which lasts three years and, for one out of fi ve graduates, takes place overseas, at Princeton, MIT, Harvard or Cambridge, for example.

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How to join ESPCI Job prospects:

ADMISSION BY ENTRANCE EXAM More than 1 in 3 student-engineers Two-thirds of ESPCI student-engineers are recruited engineers for by entrance exams at the end of the second year of receives fi nancial support grande école preparatory classes, PC courses (shared entrance exam with the École Polytechnique) and exams and have interviews. banking courses for written exams with the ENS. Several courses allow the school to welcome every industry A few places are available through entrance exams international students who enrich the yearly intakes for A PC BIO courses. with their different cultures and experiences.

ADMISSION BY QUALIFICATIONS FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE he two-fold interdisciplinary and In addition to the traditional entrance exam and to ESPCI ParisTech is committed to social openness research teaching approach makes ESPCI Careers of graduate broaden the playing fi eld and horizons of the student- and equality; it has created its own grant system. graduate engineers particularly competent engineers, ESPCI ParisTech also recruits students on The Joliot Grants provide support for any student- in the fi eld of innovation. Whilse 20% of engineers qualifi cations through a selection of students from engineer whose fi nancial situation may hinder our graduates focus on academic research Government, public sector preparatory classes at the Fédération Gay-Lussac or interrupt his/her studies. For example, it can reduce and teaching, 80% move towards industry or hospital and also other students, through admission via the cost of accommodation for the student. The in every sector. qualifi cation. They present application fi le, do written Joliot Grants are in addition to any fi nancial support, ESPCI training provides student-engineers with the Other services 15% including CROUS grants, and have a wider assessment Tright refl exes to cross different approaches, explore 15% basis than other grants. Today, over a third of our interdisciplinary interfaces, transpose concepts and 59 students recruited by exam student-engineers receive regular fi nancial support use their intuition to imagine new Other through this grant system, fi nanced by the school 84% of graduates ways of doing and thinking. They are industries 15% Energy and 37 by parallel admission and by tuition fees paid by those who do not receive trained for technological invention 17% 14% of students come from overseas, grants. The ESPCI Association des Ingénieurs also work in R&D and ground-breaking innovation. promotes assistance and supports student-engineers The school's reputation with the 4% 4% have dual nationality through loans, advice, rent deposits, donations and 1 out of 4 ESPCI international scientifi c community as Aerospace much more. with multinationals directly benefi ts 13% 8% engineers is the student-engineers who have no Electrical, electronic and LANGUAGE based overseas diffi culties in fi nding internships and 4% 4% 5% computer engineering Since most courses are taught in French, we provide research projects all over the world. Pharmaceutical industry Recruitment of student- intensive language courses for international students, 60% choose to Chemical industry engineers in 1st year before the start of the school year ● continue their The more traditional teaching Engineering, service providers methods, like the six-month Production of minerals, construction internship within a company, remain materials, ceramics, glass X/ESPCI entrance exam education with pillars of engineering education. A PC BIO entrance exam a PhD Today, these long internships are often completed overseas. They 2% Fédération Gay-Lussac give student-engineers in-depth The average gross annual preparatory classes knowledge of the professional world. ESPCI engineers 7% are educated to be industry generalists ● salary of an ESPCI graduate is 43,450 euros 5% PSI - Admission with qualifi cations Sponsorship The average time between 57% and interview Each year is sponsored by a company with 11% graduation and recruitment MP - Admission a technological focus: is 1 month with qualifi cations Arkema, Withings, Safran, Nestlé, Nexans, and interview Lundbeck, Total, Michelin, Schlumberger, 14% Areva, L’Oréal, Rhodia, Saint-Gobain, Thales. Licence (L2 and L3) and DUT France and overseas Admission with qualifi cations and interview

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International exchanges and double degrees for International double degrees French double degrees Student exchange agreements (with ECTS credits) Links North America MIT, Harvard, Stanford (United States) x everyone Northwestern University (United States) x École polytechnique de Montréal (Canada) x McGill University (Canada) x South America Campina (Brazil) x UFRJ (Brazil) x UNAL (Colombia) x t the end of the curriculum, almost Asia all students have had at least one Hokkaido� Kyo�iku Daigaku (Hokkaido University, Japan) x experience abroad : Academic Doshisha University (Japan) x experience (20%), or an internship Tongji University (China) x ESPCI: generating within a company (60%). Student- Seoul National University (South Korea) x engineers can go anywhere in the Europe world and are welcomed by the Imperial College London (United Kingdom) x school's partners. innovation and jobs Cambridge University (United Kingdom) x AWith its international network of academic partners, Novossibirsk University (Russia) x ESPCI ParisTech offers its students many opportunities ETH Zü rich () x of double degrees and academic experience. Politechnika Warszawska () x x SPCI is also known for its capacity to perpetuate this strong innovation culture which stems Through the ParisTech network, ESPCI can participate Technische Universitä t Mü nchen () x encourage major innovations. Did you know from the people who have worked at the school, like in the Athens Programme (Advanced Technology High Universitä t Konstanz (Germany) x that as well as radium, polonium, actinium Paul Langevin, theoretical physicist and the inventor of Education Network Socrates). During the third year, and lutecium, many other objects from sonar, Pierre and Marie Curie and our contemporaries Technische Universitä t Wien (Austria) students can follow a one-week intensive course in one our everyday lives were fi rst discovered or Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Georges Charpak. of the schools in the Athens international network. Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary) x created at ESPCI, like the neon tube, the Their heritage encourages students to contribute ESPCI is also involved in a hosting programme for Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway) x black box, the quartz watch, sonar, wireless Chinese, Brazilian, Russian, Columbian and other Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic) x technology, self-healing rubber or even ultrafast students. KU Leuven (Belgium) x Eultrasound imagery? Over 60 innovative high-tech companies These students follow second and third year classes at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain) x have been created at ESPCI since the ESPCI ParisTech and receive the school's diploma at the Politecnico di Milano () x AN ENTREPRENEURIAL CULTURE end of their time here. Instituto Superior Tecnico Lisboa (Portugal) x More and more graduates create their own companies beginning of the 1990s. Istanbul Technical University (Turkey) x after graduation or after their PhD. This capacity INDUSTRIAL INTERNSHIPS IN FRANCE AND Universidad complutense de Madrid (Spain) x to innovation is highly valued today. ESPCI courses OVERSEAS Stockholm University (Sweden) x to future technological progress through their The school's reputation with the international scientifi c Imperial college of science, technology and medicine knowledge and their innovations. (United Kingdom) x community and in multinationals directly benefi ts the ESPCI ParisTech researchers continuously anticipate Universidad polytecnica de catalunya (Spain) x ESPCI and its start-ups student-engineers who have the opportunity to do industry requirements to invent viable solutions as Universidad de Siena (Italy) x their internships and/or research projects all over the • An average of three start-ups are created every year in every pioneers in their fi elds. They challenge nature Universidad de Bologna (Italy) x world. high-tech fi eld: medical imagery, therapy, telecommunications, intelligent and materials through concrete situations inspired Rwth Aachen University (Germany) x Student-engineers also have the possibility to do their materials, sustainable materials, etc. Some of these start-ups that generate by industry issues. They publish more than an France 3rd year mandatory industrial internship overseas (6 highly qualifi ed jobs have the potential of revolutionising entire sections article a day in the best international scientifi c HEC Grande École x months). On average, nearly two-thirds of students of French and even international industries. peer-reviewed journals. ESSEC Grande École x seize this opportunity ● • Consolidated sales of start-ups created over the last 10 years: This ceaseless confrontation with industrial Sciences-Po Paris x 1.5 billion euros perspectives has generated a remarkably powerful Ingénieur AgroParisTech x • Fluigent (2008) • TR Com (2009) (2010) entrepreneurial culture that makes technological Ingénieur de l’Institut d’optique Graduate School x • Cytoo (2009) • SuperSonic Imagine • SmartView (2011) innovation an essential lever for commercial success. IFP School x • Sculpteo (2010) • Sensitive Object Echosens • Vision Objects Scientists at ESPCI ParisTech fi le one patent a week Institut national des sciences et techniques nucléaires (INSTN) x • Withings (2010) LLTech (2010) • Platod (2012) • Invoxia (2011) • RainDance Technologies • EOS Imaging (2000) and every year create several start-ups to promote in- Ecoles de ParisTech x • Winovel (2012) (2008) • HiFiBio (2013) ventions and discoveries generated by their research ● Ecoles de PSL x • Capital Innovation Partners (2012) • Capsum (2010) • Biomillenia (2014) Ecoles de Chimie de la Fédération de Gay-Lussac x • Inventel • Ademtech Ulifetec (2012) • Microfactory (2014) • Cy-Play • CDP Innovation (2008) • Millidrop (2015) Collège des Ingénieurs x • Finsécur • Acanthe Biotech Nexdot • Cardiawave (2015)

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