Senior Administration

President: Monique CANTO-SPERBER Vice-President: Jean-Louis BOUGERET A university open Dean of Research: Antoine TRILLER to the world Deans of Teaching: Blaise WILFERT-PORTAL, Isabelle CATTO Dean of Valorization: Jacques LEWINER

Chimie ParisTech, Collège de France, Conservatoire national supérieur d’Art PSL’s cultural, social dramatique, Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de , École and international missions nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, École normale supérieure, ESPCI ParisTech, Fondation Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, IBPC- Fondation Edmond de Rothschild, Institut Curie, Institut Louis Bachelier, La Fémis – École nationale supérieure des métiers de l’image et du son, Lycée Henri IV, Mines PSL is a research university that plays an active role ParisTech, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris-Dauphine, CNRS, INRIA, INSERM. in addressing the major issues facing today’s world. Founding Members Its ambition is threefold:

To make the university a major intellectual and cultural hub, open to the general public: conferences, debates, exhibitions, performances, concerts, a knowledge portal, the PSL museums network, etc. To guarantee equal access to all students. PARIS To play host to leading members of the international academic community and so to the exchange of SCIENCES ideas. Associate Members & LETTRES

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900 foreign students and postdoctoral researchers each year CYAN : 82 CYAN : 90 CYAN : 100 CYAN : 57 MAGENTA : 0 MAGENTA : 0 MAGENTA : 10 MAGENTA : 0 JAUNE : 28 JAUNE : 28 JAUNE : 0 JAUNE : 6 NOIR : 52 NOIR : 22 NOIR : 28 NOIR : 13 Villa Pasteur 300 62 bis rue Gay Lussac - 75005 PARIS partnerships _ with foreign [email protected] universities www.univ-psl.fr CYAN : 82 MAGENTA : 0 JAUNE : 28 NOIR : 52 facebook.com/parissciencesetlettres @SciencesLettres Teaching at PSL Research at PSL

a pedagogic model of teaching through a unique environment geared research and of success for all towards creativity and innovation

From undergraduate to PhD level, PSL provides an Boasting more than 100 laboratories, a 2,500-strong exceptional university education that offers the best research and teaching staff, an outstanding career prospects in both the public and private student community at Master’s and PhD level, sectors. All academic disciplines are taught at PSL. 12 endowed research institutes (Labex) and many cutting-edge scientific facilities (Equipex), PSL enjoys It aims: an exceptional potential for research, matched by an ambitious scientific strategy that puts it on a To offer not only first-rate disciplinary teaching, but par with the greatest universities worldwide. also to provide all students with a well rounded education that will serve them for life. Research at PSL covers all academic fields. The different disciplines across these fields are in To provide an excellent environment to each and ongoing dialogue with each other, collaborating every student. in major cross-discipline research. To develop innovative new study programs, such as the multidisciplinary PSL-Henri IV syllabus and the SACRe doctorate in the creative arts, the PSL-ITI new doctorate (innovation and entrepreneurship).

To offer an enriching and dynamic campus in the heart of the Latin Quarter – thirty-eight libraries, digital workspaces, a doctoral studies center, a choir PSL, a unique Research and a symphonic orchestra, a range of physical and sporting activities and so on.

University in France 21 Nobel Prizes 10 in Physics 3 in Literature 5 in Chemistry 2 in Physiology 10 Fields Medals PSL Research University was born as a result of the 1 in Economics or Medicine 29 CNRS Gold Medals strategic alliance between twenty-one prestigious French institutions sharing common values and 4 INSERM Grand Prizes practices, based on scientific excellence and on 1 INRIA Grand Prize the outstanding potential of their students. PSL member institutions are united in a common desire to create a unique Research University in order Technology transfer at PSL to enhance their profile and so compete with the greatest universities across the world. at the service of innovation and economic growth Labeled as an “Excellence Initiative1”, PSL is the 14,000 21 member students, 70% 2,500 institutional response to a shared ambition: to institutions of which are researchers encourage innovation and creativity, to attract postgraduates In order to transform the exceptional results of their the most outstanding researchers, professors and research into a powerful engine for growth, PSL and its members have committed to ensuring the students, to equip students to take on the major effective management of their intellectual property challenges of the future, and to make research a and to undertaking a dynamic collaborative 1 genuine factor of economic growth. The eight French “Excellence Initiatives” (Initiatives d’Excellence) are large-scale research strategy. PSL plays an active role in the research and higher education projects chosen by an international panel of experts creation of start-up companies. to receive significant endowment.