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Joint doctoral campaign of the Université de Lyon & the China Scholarship Council (CSC)
The 2022 campaign is now open.
Presentation of the program
Goals
The main goal of this program is to enable eligible students selected by the Université de Lyon and the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) to complete a thesis in a research unit under the Université de Lyon.
The Université de Lyon and the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) have been pursuing an agreement since 2013 which provides for the funding by the Chinese government of 30 Chinese doctoral students per year.
What does being a doctoral student mean?
To be admitted into a doctoral program in France, you must have a research subject, a supervisor and a funding. Research subjects are provided by the research teams or proposed by the candidates themselves. In human and social sciences, it is quite usual that the proposal is elaborated by the candidate knowing that it has to be part of a thematic area on which a research team works.
A PhD program lasts 3 years but can be extended to 4 years if it is scientifically relevant and if there is available funding.
Usually, French is the language of the dissertation and defense. However, it is possible to write and to defend in another language, but in this case, there must be a written abstract in French (and sometimes an oral abstract too).
The doctoral student is attached to a doctoral school (in French, a doctoral school is called "école doctorale -ED"), according to his/her scientific area and registered as a student at a selected higher education and research institution. The doctoral school manages and validates the selection of candidates, guarantees the scientific quality of supervision and provides doctoral students with interdisciplinary training The higher education and research institution decide the admission into a doctoral program and awards the degree.
Each doctoral student has to take a certain limited amount of "doctoral courses" adapted to their scientific and professional aims. This training may consist of participation at a scientific seminar or at short training sessions. The Université de Lyon offers a wide range of training opportunities which seek to provide doctoral students with transferable skills and to help them in ensuring their future employability.
Once they are admitted into a doctoral program, doctoral students pay registration fees as well as the Student Life and Campus Tax (CVEC). This tax of €90 must be paid every year. PhD students have to register on their own to France's social security system. This procedure is free of charge.
The Université de Lyon has 17 doctoral schools which cover all fields of research.
2022 campaign important dates
Note: beware of double applications!
Some member institutions of the Université de Lyon (ENS de Lyon, INSA Lyon & Centrale Lyon) have similar agreements with the CSC. Be careful not to apply through both ways as this could have consequences for other applications.
- July 23, 2021: applications open
- Thesis proposals must be sent to international.office@universite-lyon.fr before September 30, 2021
- Validation Security Defense of thesis offers by the Université de Lyon: until mid-December
- Publication of approved thesis proposals: December 15, 2021
- Student applications to thesis directors and doctoral schools: between December 2021 & February 2022
- A shortlist will be issued by the thesis directors and doctoral schools before March 10, 2022
- The thesis director, via his laboratory, sends his institution's Defense Security Officer (FSD) the complete file of the candidate selected for authorization of the doctoral student's access to the laboratory (approximately 2 months)
- Shortlisted candidates should submit their CSC scholarship applications directly via the CSC website between March 10 and March 30, 2022
- Communicate the names of the successful candidates to the UdL no later than March 7, 2022
- The Université de Lyon sends the exhaustive and final list of candidates selected by the doctoral schools to the CSC on April 01, 2022.
- The CSC communicates the results of the selection to the University of Lyon, which in turn transmits them to the Doctoral Schools: June & July 2022.
- The selected doctoral students will arrive in France on September 1, 2022.
Eligibility criteria
- Be a citizen or permanent resident of China;
- Hold (or be a future holder of) a Master’s degree or equivalent that demonstrates your aptitude for research;
- Be in the 2nd year of a Master’s degree or 1st year of a PhD for a basic grant;
- Be in the 2nd year of a PhD for Cotutelle grants;
- Have a very good level of French or English, depending on your scientific field (a minimum level of B2/C1 is recommended).
How to apply?
STEP #1
If a subject or theme corresponds to your project: send your application to the thesis director (detailed CV and cover letter in the requested language).
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If you have a thesis subject to propose: send your application (detailed CV and cover letter in the requested language) along with the thesis subject to the director of the corresponding doctoral school.
STEP #2
Your application will be reviewed by a research team. You may be asked to submit more information or to have an interview on line.
STEP #3
The research teams select the candidates. The director of the lab and the director of the doctoral school validate the selection.
STEP #4
You will receive a letter of acceptance of your application signed by the director of the host laboratory, the thesis director and the director of the doctoral school. You will attach this letter to your CSC application.
STEP #5
You submit your application file directly on the application portal hosted on the CSC website from March 10 to 30, 2022.
STEP #6
You are notified of the result of the CSC scholarship by the doctoral school, subject to the access authorization (FSD) to your host research laboratory.
FYI
The Université de Lyon wishes to encourage applications:
- From universities in Shanghai (ECNU, Tongji, Fudan, Jiao Tong Shanghai, New York Univeristy Shanghai) partners of the Université de Lyon,
- As part of an existing program between an establishment in Lyon or Saint-Étienne and a Chinese institution,
- For joint doctorates.
Guidelines from the CSC
Topics and subjects proposed by the doctoral schools
2022 topics & subjects
Life sciences
Evolution, Ecosystems, Microbiology, Modelling (ED 341 E2M2)
Integrative and Cellular Molecular Biology (ED 340 BMIC)
- Biophysical Study of Plants’ Morphogenetic Motions
- Deciphering hepatocellularcarcinoma mechanism in relation to hepatitis B deleted variants
- Deciphering the role of RNA binding proteins and translation regulation in the control of glioblastoma stem cell fate
- Epigenetics of neuronal and neuromuscular disorders
- Impact of gain-of-function mutations of NLRP3 on in vivo inflammation and related syndromes
- Involvement of the cholesterol metabolite OCDO, a new ligand of the glucocorticoid receptor, in the triple negative breast Cancer
- Macaque Meso-scale Inter-areal Cortical Connectome
- Mitochondria and ER contacts and exchanges during cellular senescence and age-related alterations
- NLRP3 and DNA repair
- Studying network-signaling in Pituitary tumors to identify new tumor-microenvironment interactions and actionable therapeutic targets
- Uncovering how the plasmacytoid dendritic cells sense and control SARS-CoV-2 infection
- Uncovering Hox-splicing networks in Drosophila development
Neurosciences and Cognition (ED 476 NSCo)
- Anti-CASPR2 autoantibodies in limbic encephalitis: impact on neuronal excitability through Kv1 potassium channel modulation
- Deciphering neuron/microglia signaling involved in synaptic plasticity
- Mechanisms of habituation learning in larval zebrafish
- Nutrition and sleep, interactions via the blood-brain-barrier
- Role of seizure-related respiratory and arousal codysfunction in the pathophysiology of Sudden and Unexpected Death in Epilepsy
- UNDERSTANDING THE NEURAL MECHANISMS UNDERLYING FOOD VALUATION
Sciences-Health Interdisciplinary (ED 205 EDISS)
- Investigating metabolic and lifestyle determinants of multimorbidity
- Natural food preservation by using encapsulated antimicrobial and antioxidant molecules
- New antimicrobial and / or antioxidant molecules derived from legume proteins for food preservation
- Search for early markers of the biochemical degradation of animal origin foodstuffs during their shelf life
- Smart systems for the preservation of perishable food: entrapped bioprotective lactic acid bacteria in edible particles or films
- Deciphering the stealth-bomber effect of heavy ion irradiation at the molecular, cellular and immune levels in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Formal and physical sciences
Chemistry, Processes and Environments (ED 206)
- Chalcogenide based materials for photocatalytic applications
- Control of Manganese Oxidation States Enabled by Joint Computational and Electrochemical Approaches
- Development of new SET-generated chiral radical organocatalysts for the enantioselective difunctionnalization of alkenes
- High-Field DNP Enhanced NMR Spectroscopy of Reactive Catalytic Surfaces
- Modeling of Pickering emulsion and dispersion polymerization processes
- Multiscale computational approaches to probe the properties of new-generation lanthanide complexes consolidating proteinprotein interfaces
- Optimizing bi-functional catalysis via kinetic and reaction-mass transfer modelling for CO2 valorisation
- Redox-Responsive (Supra)Molecular Systems for Switchable Magnetic Properties
- Synthesis of Cryptophanes with Fully Hydrocarbonated skeleton: Applications to Molecular Receptors with Enhanced Affinity toward Methane and Xenon
- Structural and functional investigation of a molecular regulator involved in bacterial silver resistance using NMR
Electronics, Electrotechnology and Automatics (ED 160 EEA)
- Extension of forwarding technique to infinite-dimensional systems
by elaborating Lyapunov functionals: application to real systems - Improved cardiac strains quantification from multiviews DENSE MRI
- Multimodal (MRI/optics) imaging techniques for the exploration of optical and mechanical properties of tissue
Computing and Mathematics (ED 512 InfoMaths)
- Modelisation of Digital Cities for Environmental Simulations
- Wireless networks carbon footprint and virtuous deployment
- Integration of location and distribution decisions in the healthcare context
- Research on Early Warning Diseases and Pests for Crops Based on Advanced Artificial Intelligence Technologies
- Deep learning using few examples: application to plant recognition on smartphone
Materials (ED 34)
Mechanical Engineering, Energetics, Civil Engineering and Acoustics (ED 162 MEGA)
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- Design of advanced composites for structural rehabilitation
- Developing musculoskeletal human models for understanding sitting postural discomfort
- Experimental characterization and modeling of thermomechanical behaviour of road pavement structures in fatigue and large strain domain
- Image processing and void space extraction in porous materials
- Multiobjective and multicriteria optimization: application to Civil Engineering building
- Modelling and imaging of the cardiac muscle microstructure with 3D ultrasound imaging
Physics and Astrophysics (ED 52 PHAST)
- Multiscale simulations of membrane deformation induced by heated nanoparticles
- Optical properties of gold nanoclusters/2D graphene oxide nanocomposites: from fundamental to bio-applications
- Photoluminescence in Atomically Precision Ligand Protected Metal Nanoclusters: Elucidating Mechanism and Applications in Sensoring and Bio-Imaging
- Plant-derived and mechanically-tunable ultrasonic metamaterials
- P-process nucleosynthesis: cross-section measurements employing high-intensity beams
- Pulling hard on heavy water: properties at negative pressure to explain water anomalies
- Role of frozen-in stresses on the mechanical response of colloidal gels
- Search for a second low-mass (mh<110 GeV) Higgs boson and measurement of the properties of the 125 GeV Higgs boson, decaying to two photons with the CMS experiment at the LHC Run 3
- Shear-induced aggregation in colloid-polymer suspensions
- Simulation of active clustering
- Tomography of big structures using cosmic muons
Sciences, Engineering, Health (ED 488 SIS)
- Development of a robust and agile approach for the design and management of new outpatient surgical units
- Estimation of the geometry of a bearing defect
- Granger causality based on neural networks of cardiac signals, blood pressure and respiration for the prevention of arterial hypertension and its effect on the prediction of cardiovascular pathologies
- Heat and mass transfer numerical modeling of carbonated recycled cement based material microstructure at high temperature
- Incorporation of phase change materials in the bio-based concretes composition:
assessment of hygrothermal and mechanical behavior
- Numerical modeling of coupled heat and mass transfer through damaged building envelopes
- Thermomechanical modeling of multi-cracked TRC
- Ultrafast laser photo-inscription of multiscale 3D optical functions in bulk glasses for applications in spectroscopy, from the visible to the mid-infrared spectral domain
Humanities & social sciences
Law (ED 492)
History, Geography, Town Planning, Urbanism, Archaeology, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology (ED 483 ScSo)
Literature, Languages, Linguistics, Art (ED 484 3LA)
Philosophy: History, Representation, Creation (ED 487 Philo)
Sciences of Education, Psychology, Information and Communications (ED 485 EPIC)
Economics and Managerial Sciences (ED 486 SEG)
You already have a thesis subject?
We advise Chinese candidates to contact directly the doctoral school (ED) linked to your research area.
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