Program Overview

The Research Program for International Talents gives undergraduate and graduate students coming from international partner universities of the Ecole Polytechnique the opportunity to complete a 3- to 6-month research at one laboratory of its research center.

Each year in October, the International Affairs Office sends a call for applications to the laboratories of the Ecole Polytechnique and, at the end of November at the latest, the research subjects are listed below. To find out more on the selection process.

Located in the heart of the Saclay research cluster, the l'X laboratories offer the chance to work on cutting-edge research topics in a highly internationalized environment.

With 23 research facilities devoted to 8 major specialized or transverse fields, 600 researchers and a €95-million research budget, l'X is ranked 66th in the world for the scientific impact of its publications and for the number of articles co-authored with international institutions (Leiden ranking).

Subjects - Year 2023

Research subjects are updated at the end of November at the latest each year.

 Title SupervisorCode
PHYSICS   
 

Optimisation of an imaging calorimeter for the future Higgs Factories

Vincent Boudry

LLR01

 

Muon reconstruction performance in heavy ion collisions with the CMS Phase-2 detector

Florian Damas

LLR02

 

Polarized Monte Carlo modeling of multi-layered scattering anisotropic media for brain tissue studies

Dr Tatiana Novikova

LPICM02

 

Development of near-field Raman spectroscopy in liquid environment and applications

R. Ossikovski and A. Güell

LPICM01

 

Phase-field simulations of crystal growth and solidification

Mathis Plapp

PMC01

 

Tomographic Imaging of Dynamic Biofluids with Nanocrystal Probes

Jongwook Kim / Thierry Gacoin

LPMC02

 

Development of Compact Permanent Magnet Electron Focussing Devices

Arnd Specka

LLR03

 

Nanomagnetism in fs-laser produced magnetic nanostructures

Vasily Temnov

LSI01

 

Scaling Laws and Figures of Merit for Ultrafast Magneto-Acoustics

Vasily Temnov

LSI02

 

Cold Atmospheric Plasma (CAP) jet vs electroporation: experimental verification

Svetlana Starikovskaia

LLP01

 

Improvement of detection capabilities of neutrons produced by extreme lasers

Julien Fuchs

LULI01

 

Investigation of laser-produced particle transport in a magnetized plasma

Julien Fuchs

LULI02

 

New luminescence characterization methods applied to solar cells

Amaury Delamarre

IPVF01

 

Luminosity measurement at LHCb

Vladislav Balagura

LLR04

MATHEMATICS   
 

Tomography and inverse scattering

R.G. Novikov

CMAP01

CHEMISTRY   
 

Metal-catalyzed C(sp3)-H functionalization of aldehydes via a transient directing group strategy

Sébastien Prévost

LSO01

 

Synthesis of analogues of kingianins

Dr. Yvan Six

LSO02

 

Plasmonic Semiconductor Nanocrystals for Solar Energy Control

Jongwook Kim / Thierry Gacoin

LPMC03

BIOLOGY   
 

Ribosomal Translation in Methanogens

Emmanuelle SCHMITT

BIOC01

 

Acoustic propulsion of microparticles

Sebastien Michelin

LadHyX04

 

Marangoni flows, instability and complex patterns at a free surface

Sebastien Michelin

LadHyX05

 

Unsteady growth and collapse of microscopic gas bubbles

Sebastien Michelin

LadHyX06

 

Collective dynamics of chemically-active droplets

Sebastien Michelin

LadHyX07

COMPUTATIONAL SOCIOLOGY   
 

Analyzing Media bias and polarization with NLP

Etienne Ollion

CREST01

MECHANICS/BIOLOGY   
 

Hydrodynamics of plant dispersal by rain

Arezki BOUDAOUD

LadHyX01

 

Plant morphogenesis in controlled, stable/fluctuating environment

Arezki BOUDAOUD

LadHyX02

Biomechanics   
 

Effect of substrate topography on cellular behavior

Abdul Barakat

LadHyX03

COMPUTER SCIENCE   
 

Reliable numerical integration

Grégoire Lecerf

LIX01

 

Recognition of mathematical handwriting

Joris van der Hoeven

LIX02

 

Automatic refinement of qualitative abstractions for dynamical systems

Sergio Mover

LIX03

 

Runtime enforcement of event-based programs

Sergio Mover

LIX04

 

Runtime Analysis of Randomized Search Heuristics

Benjamin Doerr

LIX05

SOCIAL SCIENCES   
 

The socio-economic sustainability of innovative essential service delivery systems in developing countries: The cases of water, energy and electric mobility

Akil Amiraly

CRG01

    

It is possible to apply for a subject not listed above, developed as part of a collaboration and with the agreement of the tutor and the Research Program coordinators. In this case, please select the "Specific subject defined with the supervisor" option in the application form.

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