Doctoral School Management Team: team email address : DIRED129

Director : Hélène CHEPFER

Deputy Director : Guillaume GASTINEAU

Doctoral school coordinator : Laurence AMSILI

Deputy Director of Paris Saclay University: Edwige PONS-BRANCHU: Generic email address for Paris Saclay University: EDSEIF

Deputy Director of Paris Saclay University: Jocelyn BARBARAND

Teaching Assistant of Paris Saclay University: Tano ACKA

Teaching Staff:

Gaëlle DE COETLOGON, Nicolas VILTARD et Etienne VIGNON.

Ph.D. student representatives:

Myriam BESSON, Léna  ANDRZEJEWSKI, Mathieu DELTEIL, Pierrick LEMASSON, Nicolas BIENVILLE

Alternate: Massimo CAVALLARO

Doctoral schools organize the training of doctoral students and prepare them for their future careers. They provide doctoral students with a multidisciplinary education within the framework of a coherent research project. They help ensure the consistency and international visibility of the doctoral training programs offered by institutions, as well as the structuring of campus locations.

As part of their action plans, doctoral schools:

• implement a policy for selecting doctoral students based on explicit and publicly disclosed criteria; organize, within the framework of institutional policy, the recruitment process for the contracts allocated to them, particularly doctoral contracts;
• ensure the quality of the supervision provided to doctoral students by research units and teams, ensure compliance with the thesis charter, and implement it. They enable doctoral students to prepare and defend their theses under the best possible conditions;
• offer PhD students training that is relevant to their research and career plans, as well as the training required to acquire a broad scientific understanding. These courses must not only prepare PhD students for careers as researchers in the public sector, industry and the service sector, but also, more generally, for any profession requiring the skills acquired through research practice. They may be organised in collaboration with other public and private bodies;
• set out a support scheme to assist PhD graduates in their career progression, both in public institutions and in the private sector, established in collaboration with organisations or associations working towards the same objective and including, where appropriate, an assessment of the skills acquired;
• monitor the career progression of PhD graduates and, more generally, of all the PhD students they have supervised;
• provide a European and international perspective, particularly through cooperation initiatives carried out with foreign higher education institutions or research centres, notably by promoting international joint supervision of doctoral theses.

The Doctoral School Council adopts the Doctoral School’s action plan and, through its deliberations, manages matters falling within the remit of the Doctoral School. In particular, the Doctoral School Council deliberates on priority thesis topics and the allocation of doctoral contracts. The composition of the Council is renewed every five years (with the exception of doctoral students, who are renewed every two years).

The Doctoral School Council meets three times a year under normal circumstances, and more frequently if necessary.

List of Council members

Doctoral school regulations

Decrees and general orders

• Previous legislation relating to doctoral degrees was repealed in 2016
• Decree of 25 May 2016 (amended in 2022) laying down the national framework for training and the procedures leading to the award of the national doctoral degree
• Circular of 10 April 2019 concerning the implementation of the temporary suspension of studies, known as a gap year, in state-funded institutions
• Decree of 19 April 2019 (amended in 2023) concerning tuition fees at public higher education institutions

The Education, Research and Labour Codes

• Article L121-3 du code de l'éducation, modifié par la loi n°2013-660 du 22 juillet 2013
  which reaffirms the requirement to write in French, whilst specifying the possible exceptions.
• Articles du code de l'éducation L123-2, L612-7, D123 relating to higher education, doctoral studies and the development of the European Higher Education Area
• Article L412-1 du code de la recherche concerning training in and through research.
• Article D6113-19 du code du travail classifying the PhD at level 8 (the highest) of the National Qualifications Framework.

Doctoral contract

• Décret du 23 avril 2009 (modifié en 2016) concerning PhD students on fixed-term contracts at public higher education or research institutions
• Arrêté du 29 août 2016 (modifié en 2022) setting the amount of remuneration for doctoral students on a contract basis
• Arrêté du 22 février 2019 defining the competences of PhD graduates and including the PhD in the national register of professional qualifications
• Décret du 25 août 2000 (modifié en 2023) concerning the organisation and reduction of working hours in the civil service and the judiciary.
• Décret du 25 septembre 2021 relating to the ‘private-law doctoral contract’, established by Article L 412-3 du code de la recherche, pursuant to the Loi du 24 décembre 2020 known as the LPR.

Doctoral regulations:

• Charte du doctorat de Sorbonne Université
• Charte du doctorat de l'Université Paris Saclay 
• Charte du doctorat l'Université Paris Cité
• Charte du doctorat de l'Université Paris Sciences et Lettres