• PhD students will be hired through a three-year French work contract including health insurance and various social benefits such as the reimbursement of 75% of transportation costs and of the full tuition fees. The net salary of 2200 €/month (2743 €/month gross salary) is well above the French average. Financial support for international research training and conferences and contribution to research costs are also provided.
• Excellent research conditions in a campus in the heart of Paris which provides an exceptional scientific environment. Each student will be enrolled in a research laboratory and will benefit of all scientific facilities available.
• A Specific Training Programme assembled into six areas, two scientific areas and four soft skills areas: 1) High level scientific and technical training on soft matter by supervisors, seminars, summer schools, a compulsory one-month secondment with an international partner and short stays to non-academic partners, 2) Specific ecological transition and soft matter focused courses 3) Smart career development training to boost employability, 4) Outreach programme to help you to present your results to the general public, 5) Advanced transferable skills training, including a transferable skills cursus covering topics such as Open Access Science, ethics, integrity, and grant application and management. 6) Innovation and entrepreneurship.
• An individual Career development Training Programme and a personalised monitoring providing a high quality interdisciplinary training and a large variety of transferable skills courses. Each fellow will define a Career development plan elaborated at the beginning of the thesis and regularly updated with the supervisor.
• Interactions with our industrial partners through secondments, visits, seminars and conferences organised during their three years at PSL. The PRISM fellows will also have the opportunity to meet the young entrepreneurs of the start-ups companies hosted on the PSL campus.
Plus :
• A Welcome day;
• Administrative support with French regulations;
• French language courses;
• Several activities to promote integration in the local student life and cultural activities.
The PSL Welcome Desk provides information and support to incoming PhD students to help their entry in France. This includes visa procedures before arrival if required, and practical information concerning arrival and installation procedures. In particular, the Welcome Desk can help with French administration procedures, work regulations and rights, and assist PhD students on many practical aspects (bank account, transport card, health, accommodation, insurances), inform about PSL facilities and services and facilitate their integration (e.g. French language courses). The PRISM students will benefit from physical meetings, individual face-to-face meetings, and outings (events presented on the Welcome Desk website). The PSL Welcome Desk is composed of polyglot employees all with extensive international experience, who are dedicated to help foreign students and researchers settle down in Paris and adjust to the French every-day life and culture.
The goal of PRISM is to hire the best possible researchers for the PhD positions regardless of sex, age, ethnicity, country of origin, religion, sexuality, disabilities, etc. PSL will strictly implement the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers promoting open recruitment and attractive working conditions. As being the only way to guarantee scientific excellence, ensuring equal opportunities will be a continuous imperative for PSL.
All PhD supervisors are either researchers or faculty members holding permanent employment in one of PSL’s Joint Research Units.
For PhD co-funded by business partners, an industrial referent is appointed and actively participates to the follow-up meetings of the PhD student with other supervisor(s), they are part of the PhD committee as well which meets once a year. A bilateral agreement is signed with the industrial partner prior the beginning of the PhD.
Supervisors are instrumental in helping the students to identify and address their research development needs. They integrate the PhD students into research group activities, including seminar series and staff meetings. They also coordinate teaching and supervision activities for the students, as determined by the Career Development Plans. Weekly meetings are organised with the supervisor to discuss on the advancement of the PhD project. The co-supervisors provide additional guidance and facilitate the insertion of students during their mobilities. Joint online meetings are organised at least every month for coordination between the two co-supervisors.
For international and intersectorial secondments, a scientific referent is appointed at the hosting partner institution. Complementing the secondment agreement, meetings are organised before, during, and after the secondment, with the PhD student and his PhD supervisor.