PhD Program Engineering and Systems Sciences - Graduate School Engineering and Systems Sciences

• The HDRs issue an opinion (favorable/unfavorable) for each application on their subject
• Any opinion not filled in will be considered by default as an unfavorable opinion
• Only one favorable opinion per subject is authorized
• The HDRs undertake to forward the application file of the selected candidate to their unit director
• The unit directors transmit a ranking of the applications for the different subjects of their unit
• The thesis directors who present 2 pairs of subject/candidate must choose only one for the continuation of the competition
• The competition jury meets and selects the candidates selected for the audition on the basis of the file and the unit director's ranking. The criteria used are: quality of the academic file (grades), previous experience, adequacy of the candidate/subject, motivation,... rmq: the ED invites to the auditions a number of candidates equal to about three times the number of places available for the competition
• A general classification is established by packages (A+, A, B, C,...) useful at the time of the final interclassification
• A candidate can present several applications; an audition adapted to the situation will be organized.
   

• Depending on the distance and on reasoned request, the hearing can be done by videoconference
• The presentation can be made in English
• It should be divided into 3 parts: candidate and CV (2-3mn), previous research experience (4-5mn), doctoral project (2-3mn)
• A ranking of the auditions is established by package (A+, A, B, C,...), then a general ranking (A+, A, B, C,...) taking into account all the elements (oral, file, laboratory ranking)
• An individual ranking is established by referent financial institution
   

• The applicant must be affiliated to the ED SMEMaG. He/she must be HDR and/or have the rank of Professor and/or Research Director or Research Associate HDR, and belong to a laboratory affiliated to the ED SMEMaG. The laboratory must have as its main supervisor one of the institutions of higher education and/or EPIC that provide doctoral contracts (for the 2021 campaign: Orsay Faculty of Science, CentraleSupélec, ENS Paris-Saclay, University of Evry Val d'Essonne, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin)
• A thesis director can present several subjects but can only present one 'candidate/subject' pair for the audition (he/she can however be a co-supervisor of a second subject/candidate pair)
• The thesis project must fall within the thematic scope of the doctoral school
• The thesis director must not have obtained an institutional doctoral contract the previous year
• The thesis director does not supervise more than 5 PhD students at the time of the audition selection. Total supervision and co-supervision must not exceed 500% on the same date.

• Olivier Hubert, PU, LMT, ENS-Paris-Saclay
• Benoît Fiorina, PU, EM2C, Centrale-Supélec
• Xavier Quidelleur, PU, GEOPS, Orsay Faculty of Science
• Franck Bassinot, DR, CEA / LSCE, University of Versailles Saint Quentin
• Jean Michel Cros, PU, LM2E, University of Evry Val d'Essonne
• Frédéric Schmidt, PU, GEOPS, Faculty of Sciences of Orsay
• Marie Laurence Giorgi, PU, LGPM, Centrale-Supélec
• Bérengère Podvin, CR CNRS, LIMSI, Orsay Faculty of Science
• Ludovic Chamoin, PU, LMT, ENS Paris-Saclay
• Frédéric Moisy, PU, FAST, Faculty of Sciences of Orsay
• Eva Heripré, IR, MSSMAT, CentraleSupélec
• Christian Angelberger, "Turbulent Combustion Modelling" project leader, IFP-EN.
• Stéphane Pattofatto, Department Manager, Safran Aircraft Engines
• Francis Dupoirieux, Doctoral Engineer HDR, Dpt MFE, ONERA
• Habibou Maitournam, PU, IMSIA ENSTA Paristech
   

• Thursday, February 29, 2024:
  Closing date for submission of thesis topics on ADUM
• Thursday April 25, 2024:
  Closing date for applications on ADUM
• Wednesday May 29 to Friday May 31, 2024:
  Candidate hearings
• Date to be defined
  Announcement of results

• The HDRs issue an opinion (favorable/unfavorable) for each application on their subject
• The unit directors transmit a ranking of the applications for the different subjects of their unit 
• Only one subject/candidate couple per HDR will be retained by the audition
• The board of ED Interfaces meets and selects the candidates retained for the audition on the basis of the file and the ranking of the unit director. The criteria used are: quality of the academic file (grades), previous experiences, adequacy of the candidate/subject, motivation,...
   

• Depending on the distance and on reasoned request, the hearing can be done by videoconference
• The presentation can be made in English
• The duration of the presentation is between 10 and 12 minutes. The presentation includes an overview of the CV, past research experience and the doctoral project, and will be followed by a question and answer session.
• A ranking of the auditions is established by package (A+, A, B, C,...), then a general ranking (A+, A, B, C,...) taking into account all the elements (oral, file, laboratory ranking)
• An individual ranking is established by the funding institution.
   

• The applicant must be affiliated to the ED Interfaces. He must be HDR and belong to a laboratory affiliated to the ED Interfaces. The laboratory must have as main supervisor one of the referent higher education institutions and/or EPIC providing doctoral contracts (for the 2021 campaign: CentraleSupélec, ENS Paris-Saclay, Université Versailles Saint-Quentin
• A thesis director may present several subjects 
• The thesis project must fall within the thematic scope of the doctoral school.

All the members of the Interfaces ED council (except elected PhD students and ITA representatives) and the Interfaces ED management

Pascale Le Gall (PU, MICS, CentraleSupélec)
Yves Dumont (PU, GEMaC, UVSQ)
Vincent Mousseau (PU, MICS, CentraleSupélec)
Emmanuelle Clément (MCF HDR, Université Marne-La-Vallée)
Pietro Cortona (PU, SPMS, CentraleSupélec)
Pierre-Eymeric Janolin (PU, SPMS, CentraleSupélec)
Xavier Quelin (MCF HDR, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin)
Jakob Puchinger (Pr, LGI, CentraleSupélec)
Anne-Marie Gonclaves (Pr, ILV, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin)
Fabienne Testard (Dr, CEA)
Philippe Fontaine (Dr, SOLEIL, CEA)
Loic Bertrand (PPSM, ENSPS)
 

• The HDRs issue an opinion (favorable/defavorable) for each application on their subject

• The unit directors issue an opinion (favourable/defavourable) with arguments for the applications retained by the HDR thesis directors

ATTENTION, application rule :

• A researcher who has obtained funding from a doctoral program (GS-SIS/MESR, or ADI, or UDOPIA) in year N cannot apply for this same program in year N+1.
• A researcher can present only one thesis subject to the ED recruitment competition, all programs included (the same subject can be presented to several programs)
• The maximum number of applications per subject with a favorable opinion from the thesis director is set at 3.

The jury of the doctoral school will audition all complete applications having received a favorable opinion from the thesis director and the laboratory director (3 applications maximum)

Audition format: The total duration of the interview is 15 minutes (10 minutes of presentation of your background and the doctoral project for which you are applying followed by 5 minutes of questions). The interview is conducted without any written support or presentation. The interview can be conducted in French or English.

• The same HDR supervisor cannot benefit from two MESR doctoral contracts in the same year, nor two consecutive years.
• An HDR supervisor cannot benefit from an MESR contract if he/she already directs 5 theses or has a supervision rate higher than 300%.
• If a doctoral contract has been attributed in the year (N-2) to a supervising researcher of the doctoral school, this parameter will intervene as an element reducing his chances of success in case of equality with another doctoral project presented by another HDR researcher of the ED. The same applies if the researcher / teacher-researcher is already leading four theses.

Composition of the jury

Constituted by the doctoral school's executive committee.
Its composition aims to respect a balance between the ED's themes/poles and the ED's main research units.

• It includes 3 of the 6 members of the executive committee and 6 researchers/teacher-researchers HDR attached to the doctoral school, that is to say 9 members in total who will attend the oral hearings of all the selected candidates. In addition to these members, there may be a number of substitutes equal to the number of jury members involved in a funding application.
• Each year, 4 of the 6 external members of the ED board are renewed, and a rotation is carried out among the members of the board of directors, leading to a renewed year-(N+1) jury but keeping a memory of the year N.
• If possible, the jury will be composed of colleagues who are not candidates for funding of a doctoral project; if a colleague member of the jury of year N happens to apply for funding for a candidate interested in one of his/her thesis subjects, he/she is replaced by a substitute member during the oral hearings and does not speak during the deliberations concerning the candidate for whom he/she is a referent.

The jury will be composed of :  Jean-Charles Arnault (Nimbe-CEA), Imen Bahri (GEEPS), Elie Lefeuvre (C2N), Jean-Pau Adam (C2N), Jean-Christophe Ginefri (Biomaps), Sophie Bouchoule (C2N), Xavier Mininger (Geeps), Mounira Berkani (SATIE).

How the jury works

• Each doctoral project is examined in detail by at least one reporter chosen among the two members of the jury. Each rapporteur fills out a standard summary form, the model for which is provided each year by the doctoral school administration. All of these evaluations prior to the hearings are made available to the 9 members of the jury before the beginning of the next phase.
• Carries out the oral auditions (typically 3 days)
• Produces a main list and a supplementary ranked list of doctoral projects from three types of data: i) the complete files of the candidates, ii) the elements transmitted by the DUs (arguments for each doctoral project), iii) the oral hearings of the candidates
   

• Quality of the candidate's file (results of the Master's degree or equivalent, the candidate's aptitude for research as assessed from the internship or research thesis, recommendations from supervisors)
• Suitability of the candidate's profile for the thesis project.
• Quality of the oral presentation and mastery of the project (appropriation of the question and the approach to be implemented). These elements will be related to the time since the candidate became aware of the project
• Conditions of supervision.
   

Auditions can be held in French or English. Projection of documents during the presentation is highly recommended (a computer and a video projector are available).

• The applicant must be affiliated to the ED STIC. He must be HDR (or benefit from an equivalence or a derogation) and belong to a laboratory affiliated to the ED STIC. The laboratory must have among its supervisors one of the institutions or components providing doctoral contracts for this competition
• A thesis director can present several subjects. He/she may submit a maximum of three applications, including a maximum of two as thesis director and a maximum of two as co-supervisor
• The thesis project must fall within the thematic scope of the doctoral school.
   

The jury is composed of the members of the ED STIC board (except for the elected PhD students and representatives of the ITA), plus the director of the ED STIC. It may be extended to representatives of specific calls for projects if necessary. The jury is chaired by the director of the ED STIC.

As of February 9, 2021, the members of the ED STIC board (excluding elected PhD students and ITA representatives) are : 

Mr. AIT SAADI Nadjib UVSQ
Mr. ANGEL Eric IBISC UEVE
Ms APPERT Caroline LISN CNRS
Mr. BERTHET Antoine L2S CentraleSupélec
Mr. BLANQUI Frédéric LMF INRIA 
Mr. FINKEL Alain LMF ENS Paris-Saclay
Ms. KLAUDEL Hanna IBISC UEVE
Mr. MAMMAR Saïd IBISC UEVE
Mr. MONACELLI Eric LISV UVSQ
Mr. OVARLEZ Jean-Philippe SONDRA ONERA
Mrs. VEQUE Véronique L2S UPSaclay / Faculty of Science
Ms. VILNAT Anne LISN UPSaclay / Faculty of Science
Mr. ARLOT Sylvain LMO UPSaclay / Faculty of Sciences
Mr. BATTEUX Michel SystemX
Mr. BAUDEL Thomas IBM
M. BOUHTOU Mustapha Orange Labs Research
Mr. DEFUDE Bruno SAMOVAR Télécom SudParis
Mr. DESSANTE Philippe GeePS CentraleSupélec
Mr. GIAVITTO Jean-Louis IRCAM CNRS.

The director of the ED STIC is Mr. DENISE Alain (LISN, UPSaclay / Faculty of Sciences).
The elected PhD students and the representatives of the ITA members of the board are invited to attend the jury as observers.