FRANCE: A WELCOMING HOME FOR MATHEMATICIANS
  • A Fertile Ground
  • Studying and visiting positions
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Universities all over France welcome you ! 

Researchers and students from all over the world are welcome to attend workshops and conferences, take part in chairs of excellence programmes or come to France through various administrative and financial initiatives (many designed for graduates and PhD students).

Studying in France

​A large choice of Master degrees is available, from the most theoretical aspects of mathematics to various applications, scientific calculus, statistics, imaging processes, etc.
Check the Masters map to pick the master of your dreams! 
 
Funding options: various possibilities
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- Mathematics departments offer financial support and grants to follow Masters courses, mostly through the LabEx scheme: check the LabEx map for grants in your subject area!
- The Ecoles Normales Supérieures (Paris, Lyon, Paris-Saclay, Rennes) and the Ecole polytechnique are elite competitive institutions that provide support for the most promising students.
Take a look! Perhaps you would be eligible?

​PhD positions and funding
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French research laboratories are keen to host PhD students. Check the list! Your PhD advisor and his contacts in France can help you look for the most suitable grant for you, whether it is financed by a university, a LabEx, the ANR, ERC funding, or other providers (see for example the CIFRE-PhD initiative where the French Ministry for Higher Education and Research grants money to private companies to employ a PhD student). You can also come in France in the frame of a co-tutelle agreement between your own university and a French one.  

Besides, you may check the 'Opération postes’ website for teaching positions on the last year of your PhD or after (ATER position). ‘Opération postes' also lists Postdoc, Assistant professor (MCF) and Professor (PR) positions.

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Check the Masters map to pick the master of your dreams!

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Check the LabEx map for grants in your subject area!

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​Visiting positions as a researcher in France

Postdoc positions

Several types of grants are available, financed by universities, LabEx, ANR, ERC fundings, or others. Follow the link to the 'Opération postes' website to find a position. Or you can of course ask your research contacts in France. 

Visiting professor positions
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Perhaps you already have a contact or an established collaboration in France? There are various ways in which a researcher based in a French institution can set up an invitation for you:

- Chair programmes, for 6-month, 1-year (or longer) stays
- CNRS funding for a 3-month stay
- University funding for visiting positions (usually one month)
- ANR, ERC, LabEx funding programmes for stays of various lengths, etc.


​ANR = National Research Agency 
ERC = European Research Council
LabEx = Excellence laboratory 
 


Website editor: AuDiMath network (GDS 3745 - CNRS), which coordinates all actors involved in initiatives aimed at disseminating mathematical knowledge in France. Contact: audimath@math.cnrs.fr -  audimath.math.cnrs.fr 
AuDiMath is managed by a dedicated team: Olivier Druet (Research Director at CNRS - Lyon), Stéphanie Vareilles (PR & Communication Manager at CIRM), Séverine Voisin (Communication Officer - Labex Milyon), Fabrice Planchon (Pr Nice and Editor in Chief of Images des Maths).
July 2018

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  • A Fertile Ground
  • Studying and visiting positions
  • World-renowned centres
  • French Maths in Numbers