Defense
 
Terms of filing

First, the candidate should contact the secretariat of the Directorate of Doctoral Studies of their registration instituion (Lyon 1, ENS Lyon or INSA Lyon) to remove a folder of defense.

Before filing its application with the establishment, it must obtain the defense authorization from the Graduate School, which is given by the Director of the Graduate School in view of a file containing:
  • the manuscript
  • the proposal of reporters driven by the Supervisor
  • the proposed composition of the jury in conformity with the decree of August 7, 2006
  • publication category A or making patent
If there is no publication, the Council of the Graduate Schools give notice of defense or not given a letter explaining the situation written by the PhD supervisor.

These documents must be signed by the Supervisor before signing Director of the Graduate School.

Selection of referees

The referees will be chosen outside the «PRES Université de Lyon». The  Graduate School also also request at least one member in the examination board to be is a professor affiliated with the institution's doctoral student and  a member habilitated to watch PhD’s fellow to the Graduate School of Chemistry.

Specialties

On the first page of the thesis must be indicated in clear the specialty of this work which must be chosen from the following list:
  • Chemistry
  • Process Engineering
  • Science and Technology of Waste
Presentation of manuscript

There is no template available at the graduate school of chemistry of Lyon. The manuscript be written in French. Writing in English may be permitted in special circumstancies, as a an international examination board or impossibility to write in French for foreigners.
 
PhD Contracts

  • The PhD contract is a contract signed between the host instution (Lyon 1, ENS Lyon or INSA Lyon) to employ the PhD candidate with the mission to focus fully and exclusively to his research for the preparation of his thesis. Limited other missions may optionnally be assigned to the PhD candidate (expertise or teaching).
  • The decree of April 23, 2009 (No. 2009-464) on contractual PhD’s candidates of the public institution of higher education repeals the age requirements, nationality or date of master obtaining that applied previously and  are now obsolete.
  • The selection of candidates is delegated to units that will present to the council of the graduate school on time, usually late June early July. In case of multiple applications on the same subject it to the council to decide depending on the merit of candidates.
  • For information, 20 contracts were awarded doctorate in 2009 with 3 contracts thematic priorities and 2 others by the PRES Université de Lyon for European mobility.   

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