Application
Prepare and submit an application
Candidates interested in a MISCEA thesis offer from the second call must contact the supervisor listed in the relevant offer to discuss and prepare their application.
The application form, which must include the documents specified in the attached document, must be sent by e-mail before [date to confirm].
Forms & guides for applicants
Ethics Assessment Form [Download]
Applicant’s guide [Download]
5-pages thesis proposal + 1-page cover letter – [Download]
Eligibility criteria
Eligible candidates must meet the following criteria:
- Recruited researchers can be of any nationality.
- They must not be currently employed at École des Ponts.
- They must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in France for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately preceding the closing date of the MISCEA call for applications (deadline indicated on the PhD offers on EURAXESS). Compulsory national service, short stays such as vacations, and time spent as part of a procedure to obtain refugee status under the Geneva Convention are not taken into account.
- They must hold a Master’s degree (or about to obtain one) or have a university degree equivalent to a European Master’s degree (5 years in duration) at the closing date of the MISCEA program call for applications.
- Researchers must be doctoral candidates, i.e. they must not already hold a doctorate by the deadline of the co-funded program’s call for applications (deadline indicated on the PhD offers on EURAXESS).
- Researchers who have successfully defended their thesis, but have not yet formally obtained their doctorate, will NOT be considered eligible.
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Themes: air quality, pollution dispersal and transportation, atmospheric modeling on an urban and regional scale, data assimilation.
Themes: applied mathematics, sciences computing, modeling, optimization.
Themes: development and environmental economics, energy/waste/transportation/water/food issues, global environmental challenges, precautionary principle, modeling.
Themes: multiscale observation and analysis, system based modeling, management of water as risk and resource, quantity and quality, hydrology for a resilient city.
Themes: social sciences, spatial planning, history, dialogue between social sciences and technology and engineering, in both private sector companies and the public sector. Two major domains tackled: productive organizations and territorial organizations.
Themes: Water, soil and sustainable cities – Uses and innovations – Hydrosystems and society.
Themes: fluid mechanics applied to hydraulics and the environment (rivers, coasts, and harbors).
Themes: algorithms and architectures for image analysis and synthesis; algebraic combinatorics and symbolic computation; software, networks and real time; models and algorithms; signal and communication.
Themes: atmospheric dynamics, study of climate and its interannual fluctuations, continental and global scales.
Themes: analysis and modeling of interactions between transportation and spatial planning.
Themes: basic research on the mechanics and physics of materials and structures, and their applications to geotechnics, civil engineering, geophysics, and the oil industry.
Themes: general economics research laboratory, with broad coverage of the discipline. A worldwide reputation for excellence, more specifically in theoretical economics, public economics, and labor market economics.