École normale supérieure de Lyon

ENS-CSC doctoral fellowship program: the 2026 call for applications is now open!

CIRI PhD student Amandine Chantharath and LIP PhD student Anne Gagneux are winners of the 20th edition of the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science France Award, the winners of which were announced on Tuesday, October 6, 2026. Thumbnail: From left to right: Anne Gagneux © All rights reserved and Amandine Chantharath © Elisa Llop

On the occasion of European Doctoral Day 2026, celebrated on May 13, the ENS de Lyon is highlighting its PhD studies and the support systems available to doctoral candidates throughout their academic journey at the School.
A webinar on the mentoring program for female doctoral candidates, in partnership with the Femmes & Sciences association, will be held on May 11 at 11:00 a.m (in French). Register now!

In June 2025, Hanadi Bekai joined ENS de Lyon thanks to the Palestine Scholarship program to pursue her doctoral research at CIHAM. Her area of scholarship is Arabic Language and Literature; she studies unpublished manuscripts from the 14th to the 18th centuries. Hanadi’s stay at ENS de Lyon has given her the structure, advising, and resources necessary to advance her research while engaging in international scholarly collaboration.

ENS-CSC doctoral fellowship program: the 2026 call for applications is now open!

On Thursday, March 20, 2025, PhD student Noémie Dumont from the IHRIM laboratory at ENS de Lyon distinguished herself at the local finals of the international Francophone competition “My Thesis in 180 Seconds” by winning the jury’s second prize. She has thus qualified for the regional finals of the competition, which will take place by mid-May 2025.

Chinese students, applications for the CSC-ENS 2025 doctoral scholarships are open from January 20 to February 14, 2025. Discover the thesis topics proposed.

The Middle East and Muslim Worlds (MOMM) Scientific Interest Group (GIS) and the Institute for the Study of Islam and Societies of the Muslim World (IISMM) awarded their thesis prizes on September 26, 2024.

Call for applications for international doctoral students - 2023/2024.
Deadline: June 30, 2023, 12:00 am (Paris time)

Congratulations to Alice Malivert, winner of the L'Oréal-UNESCO 2022 French Young Talent Award - L'Oréal-UNESCO Prize for Women in Science.

Bastien Marguet, alumni of ENS de Lyon and PhD student at the Institut Lumière Matière (CNRS, UCBL), has won a place in the Final of the 2022 edition of the My Thesis in 180 Seconds (MT180) competition.

Organized by the Université de Lyon, the regionalfinal of the My Thesis in 180 Seconds (MT180) competition was played to a full house on Thursday, March 24, 2022. Bastien Marguet and Arthur Guerin-Turcq are the lucky winners of this local final. They will go to the national semi-final on April 8 and 9, 2022 in Paris.

Communication from SAAFE, by Michael Rose, on July 1, 2020.

On 11 December 2019, the ENS de Lyon welcomed a delegation from the East China Normal University (ECNU).

The challenge: Students have to make their thesis topic easily understandable in clear, concise and convincing French or English – and with the help of only one slide! Participants are filmed under competition conditions, and a multidisciplinary jury chooses finalists based on the videos, rating each participant’s performance according to the criteria in the official rules

Theo Tacail in "Archeology", Michael Rao in "Mathematics" and Amina Doumane in "Information Science".

Doctoral student in the Physics laboratory

ENS de Lyon doctoral student in contest final

Christian Ricourt Young Researchers award in Taiwanese studies

Doctoral studies and joint diplomas

A doctoral student and a former ENS student were amongst the prize winners

Laureate of the L'Oréal-UNESCO "Young Talent" grant 2016

Laureate of the L'Oréal-UNESCO "Young Talent" grant 2016

Congratulations to Olga, Pauline, Laurie-Anne and Aline