Procedure

• In order to register with the Doctoral School, you must have a PhD advisor who agrees to supervise the thesis, a research project (most often proposed by the advisor), and sufficient funding provided either by an external organization, by the research team or by the Doctoral School.
• Funding from French institutions may not be less than the amount defined at national level (€1422 net per month). If this funding is below this amount, the research team is asked to find the missing funds to reach the required limit.
• In order for a student to apply for a subject, the thesis proposal must have been submitted by the thesis director on the proposals pages on ADUM and validated by ED’s board.
• Whatever the type of funding envisaged (ED doctoral contract or other), you must:
  1. Fill in the online application form on the ADUM/candidature platform, ADUM/candidature platform, choosing the thesis subject you have previously submitted. You will then receive a confirmation email containing a personal link.
  2. Provide the following documents electronically (in PDF format):
     1. ID card or passport
     2. CV (resume)
     3. Transcript of your master’s courses, including grades
     4. If you have your own funding (other than ED’s CD), the financing plan and supporting documents for your envisioned source of funding.
     which must be uploaded to the ADUM application platform using the identifiers provided when the application was submitted.
  3. The (possible) letters of recommendation and confidential appreciations will be directly uploaded by their authors. The most relevant referees are the advisors of your possible previous research interships. You don't need to ask a recommendation from your future PhD advisor who will have the opportunity to upload their recommendation independently.
  4. If you have your own funding (other than CD ED, CDSN, CDSX or CSC) and if you apply to a PhD project in University Paris-Saclay, you have to be interviewed (10-minute presentation + 5-minute question period, according to the format of the ED competition auditions) by an admission committee. This committee must be made up of at least 2 senior researchers or teacher-researchers from the ED (with HDR), and who are not members of the supervisory team. The thesis advisor is responsible for organizing this meeting.
     The PV d’audition  and must be downloaded and completed by the admission committee and sent by email to: 

Selection of candidates for an audition

Selected candidates will receive by e-mail, approximately 15 days in advance, their date and time of passage, as well as their number of sub-jury and videoconference address.

Audition format: The audition lasts fifteen minutes, including a 10-minute presentation and about 5 minutes of questions. The candidate must presents his·her cursus (academic training and interships) as well as the thesis project: he·she must devote no more than two slides to his·her thesis project in order to hilight his·her cursus.

The jury is composed by members of the laboratories attached to the doctoral school and represents various themes. The auditions are addressed to a jury composed of physicists who are not specialists in the field of the thesis, please take it into account.