CSC PhD scholarships candidates - Applying to a PhD program at the Université de Lyon

 

To be admitted into a doctoral program in France, you must have a research subject, a supervisor and a funding. Research subjects are provided by the research teams or proposed by the candidates themselves. In human and social sciences, it is quite usual that the proposal is elaborated by the candidate knowing that it has to be part of a thematic area on which a research team works.

A PhD program lasts 3 years but can be extended to 4 years if it is scientifically relevant and if there is available funding.

Usually, French is the language of the dissertation and defense. However, it is possible to write and to defend in another language, but in this case, there must be a written abstract in French (and sometimes an oral abstract too). In natural and experimental sciences, it is very common that the dissertation and defense are in English.
The Université de Lyon offers French language courses to all doctoral students. They are of all levels, from beginners to “Dissertation writing" and they are fully subsidized.

The doctoral student is attached to a doctoral school (in French, a doctoral school is called "école doctorale -ED"), according to his/her scientific area and registered as a student at a selected higher education and research institution. The doctoral school manages and validates the selection of candidates, guarantees the scientific quality of supervision and provides doctoral students with interdisciplinary training The higher education and research institution decide the admission into a doctoral program and awards the degree.

Each doctoral student has to take a certain limited amount of "doctoral courses" adapted to their scientific and professional aims. This training may consist of participation at a scientific seminar or at short training sessions. The Université de Lyon offers a wide range of training opportunities which seek to provide doctoral students with transferable skills and to help them in ensuring their future employability.

Once they are admitted into a doctoral program, doctoral students pay registration fees as well as the Student Life and Campus Tax (CVEC). This tax of €90 must be paid every year. PhD students have to register on their own to France's social security system. This procedure is free of charge.

The Université de Lyon has 17 doctoral schools which cover all fields of research.

• Hold Chinese citizenship;

• Hold a Master's degree or equivalent diploma which proves your aptitude for research;

• Have a very good level of French or English, depending on your scientific area.

Step 1
If one subject or one topic suits your research project: send to the contact-person a detailed CV and a cover letter in the expected language. Specify your level of English or French.

Step 2
Your application will be reviewed by a research team. You may be asked to submit more information or to have an interview on line.

Step 3
The research teams select the candidates. The director of the lab and the director of the doctoral school validate the selection.

Step 4
Before March 10, you will receive a letter of acceptance of your application signed by the director of the lab and the director of the doctoral school. You will add this letter to your application through CSC.

For your information:
The Université de Lyon wishes to encourage applications:

• Coming from partners institutions in Shanghai (ECNU, Tongji, Fudan, Shanghai Jiao Tong);
• Being part of a cooperative program between an institution in Lyon or Saint-Étienne and a Chinese University;
• Joint PhDs.

Download guidelines (in Chinese)

Doctoral school website (in French)

PhD positions:

• Development of a bioinformatic tool to detect epigenetic enrichment of transposable elements: application to tissue and condition comparison in human
• Mechanisms underlying nitrification inhibition by savanna grasse
  

Doctoral school website (in French)

PhD positions:

• Francisella-induced eicosanoid production: Connection with the inflammasome and consequences on the innate immune responses
• Sperm chromatin organization in insects
• Study of Herpes simplex virus 1 neuronal latency in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons using CRISPR/Cas9 edited viral genomes
• Role of translational control by ribosome during epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in mammary tumorigenesis
• Role of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2) methyl transferase in liver disease development and hepatocellular carcinoma

Doctoral school website
PhD positions:

• Macaque Meso-scale Inter-areal Connectome
• The blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier: a detoxification site for the developing brain?
• Development of a murine model of REM sleep behavior disorder, the most specific prodromal stage of Parkinson’s disease

Doctoral school website

PhD positions:

• Identification, analysis and biochemical characterization of novel lipase inhibitors as potential anti-obesity drug leads
• Molecular-level interactions between the hepatitis B virus capsid and allosteric assembly modulators presenting new HBV drugs
• Molecular simulations of membrane fission mediated by BARS proteins
• Predicting emergency care pathways by machine learning to anticipate the inpatient boarding
• Entrapped bioprotective lactic acid bacteria in edible particles or films: smart systems for the preservation of perishable food
• New antimicrobial and / or antioxidant molecules derived from legume proteins for food preservation

 

Doctoral school website

PhD positions:

• Blur the Line between Online and Offline: End-to-End Flow Management Perspective

Doctoral school website (in French)

PhD positions:

• Design and synthesis of fluorescent glycoconjugates for biomedical applications
• Molecular imprinted material for specific biomolecules immobilization, wastewater treatment and analysis
• Formulation of aqueous core nanocapsules for biomedical application
• Chemical synthesis of 2D materials
• Valorizing CO2 capture for the sustainable production of smart self-assembled materials
• Monitoring and modeling of double emulsions
• Breakthrough in h-BN graphene-like nanosheets synthesis and future applications

Doctoral school website

PhD positions:

• Smart sensors for electrical motors
• Magnetic metamaterials for wireless energy transfer by induction
• Application of Nonlinear observers in visual inertial SLAM algorithms for UAVs
• Green antennas dedicated to RFID tags
• Nonlinear control of reaction network -Application to living system
• Numerical tools for noise and parasites modeling at micro / nano-metric scales, in two-dimensional and three-dimensional circuits: Application to NMR micro / nano antennas
• ROSIE: RObotic SImulator for Endovascular surgery
• Study of Deep Levels in GaN and Ga2O3 based devices by means of Deep level transient spectroscopy

Doctoral school website

PhD positions:

• Epitaxial growth of new semi-conducting carbides by chemical vapour deposition
• Nanocellulose ionic membrane
• In situ Synthesis of highly dielectric materials from Sol-Gel Chemistry in confined polymer medium

Doctoral school website (in French)

PhD positions:

• Inverse methods and identification of mechanical fields and sources from surface imaging of composite structures
• Direct numerical simulation of friction noise
• Porous media flow simulation for the design of innovative thermal energy storage materials
• Coded emission in medical ultrasound imaging
• Design and optimization of an innovative biossourced building envelope component: numerical and experimental studies
• Numerical and multiscale experimental studies of double window

Doctoral school website (in French)

PhD positions:

• Probing the surface alteration of nanoparticles in cells by nonlinear optics
• Big-gels
• Structuration of the dynamics of bacteria dispersions
• Structure of planetary interiors from seismic interferometry
• Modelling nanoscale thermal dissipation in nanostructured polymers
• Giant vapor nanobubbles around heated nanoparticles
• Heavy water at negative pressure as a new route to explain water anomalies
• Active Matter: Microrheology of self-propelled particles
• Transport in model soft nanofluidics channels
• Upsilon production in high-energy hadronic collisions with the ALICE detector at the CERN-LHC

Doctoral school website

PhD positions:

• Modelling and numerical simulations of thermo-mechanical behaviour of RC structures strengthened by high performance composite thin layer
• Lighting solutions to assist low vision people in their mobility
• Multisensory and crossmodal control of behaviour in fish over the development
• Roles of biochemical constraints and ecological selective pressures in the evolution of volatile organic compounds responsible for the attraction of pollinators: the case of mutualistic interactions in the genus Ficus
• Effect of Biopolymers on the mechanical properties of granular soils

Doctoral school website

PhD positions:

• Dimensions of tax design: Optimal Income Redistribution in a Globalized Economy
• Trust/ Distrust toward the brand after a service failure: the role of perceive justice
• Modelling of very high frequency financial data by artificial neural networks and other data mining methods
• How artificial intelligence creates value in human interactions
• Turbulent environment, Information System and industrial project(s): A clinical research

Doctoral school website (in French)

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Doctoral school website (in French)

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Doctoral school website (in French)

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We advise Chinese candidates to contact directly the doctoral school (ED) linked to your research area.

List of doctoral schools and research areas

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