Doctorate 2012-2015 edition
Deadline for on-line applications:
Category A students (see below) : CLOSED
Category B, Turkey/Western Balkan students and Erasmus Mundus scholarship holders (see below) : postponed to FEBRUARY 10th, 2012, 12.00am GMT
Category A "Non european students" are students coming from a country other than an eligible applicant country (i.e. a Member State of the European Union, an EEA-EFTA State – Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein), and who are not residents nor have carried out their main activity (studies, work, etc.) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in one of these countries.
Students from Turkey, the Western Balkan countries – Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.-, or Switzerland are considered as Non european students.
Category B "European students" are students who do not fill the conditions above.
Former EM scholarship holders are not subject to the 12 months rule and are therefore considered as category A students.
All candidates finishing their master (120 ECTS) in 2012 (even after the application deadline) are eligible to apply.
EU students should apply to phD projects taking place in countries different from their residence country / country where they studied during the last year.
Deadline for the notification of the evaluation results to the candidates (by e-mail) : March 15th, 2012
In order to apply :
1) NOTE: on Nov. 10th, 2011, we have changed the application procedure. The previous Application form is no longer used. All the information is now filled online (go directly to point 2 just below).
2) The application procedure is available at the page http://www.europhotonics.org/emundusdoctorate/. Go to this page to create your personal account, then follow the instructions that are given by the Application Software. The Application Software will collect all the electronic documents that you have to submit (the list of these documents is given below). You can interrupt the submission at any time and resume the submission later. You can submit the pictures and scanned documents in any common format (JPEG, PDF,...) however PDF is strongly preferred.
In the Application you have to select a list of preference for 4 phD projects maximum among the 11 possible projects (a list of these projects is given below). This choice must be based upon your career project and motivations, as well as your fields of competence.
3) You must finish the electronic submission otherwise your application will not be validated. When done, you will get at the top of the page (when connected to the Application) the "Status of your actual application" ending with "Application sent", and you will receive an email with content: "I hereby confirm that we have received your application to the euroPHOTONICS doctorate course in electronic form. The consortium will evaluate all complete applications and you will be informed by email of the outcome of this process."
If you are unable to provide one of the asked documents (in particular diploma that you are currently preparing), please upload instead of it a document explaining the reason.
If you obtain this document after the application deadline, send us the document as soon as you get it.
Please do not send any printed documents, the originals will be asked after selection.
List of the phD projects (Doctorate 2012-2015 edition) :
The details of the projects can be found here.
| Project number | Project title |
Involved institutions |
| 1 | Nanometric surface probing with ultra-cold atoms | LENS / KIT |
| 2 | Light transport and interaction with matter in strongly heterogeneous media | LENS / UPC |
| 3 | Entanglement‐enhanced atomic instruments | ICFO / LENS |
| 4 | Effect of hydrodynamic forces in integrin mediated leukocyte arrest and migration | ICFO / LENS |
| 5 | Monitoring cells mechanical and structural properties at sub-micrometric scales in 3D | KIT / Inst. FRESNEL |
| 6 | Three-dimensional quantitative microscopy of crystalline nanostructures | Inst. FRESNEL / KIT |
| 7 | Retinal imaging with MEMS scanning mirror for biometric purposes | KIT / UPC |
| 8 | Control of high-order harmonic generation | UPC / LENS |
| 9 | Novel approaches to self-mixing interferometry |
UPC / KIT |
| 10 | Integrated single photon emitters in CVD diamond nano-photonic structures | KIT / ICFO |
| 11 | Nanophotonic systems for reconfigurable ultra-fast signal processing | KIT / ICFO |
List of the documents you need to collect :
| Documents | Electronically collected by the Application Software | |
| Your profile (online form) | to be filled online | |
| Photo | any format | |
| Officially certified copies and translations of your diplomas into English (first university degree and others - do not send secondary school diploma). Selected students will be asked to bring the original diplomas at arrival.In case your current degree is not yet acheived: please upload a letter from your university declaring the expected receiving date, as well as available transcripts. | PDF format preferred | |
| Certified English translation of transcripts (BsC or equivalent, MsC, ..) | PDF format preferred | |
| Clear copy of passport | PDF format preferred | |
| Documentation for language tests (copy of the TOEFL score / IELTS report sheet) | PDF format preferred | |
| Letter of motivation | PDF format preferred | |
| Recommandation letter of reference 1* | PDF format preferred | |
| Recommandation letter of reference 2* | PDF format preferred | |
| Up-to-date curriculum vitae (2 pages maximum) | PDF format preferred | |
| Other optional document | optional |
* In order to submit the recommandation letters, you have 3 possibilities :
- When you give the email address of the person who has written the recommandation letter, he /she will receive a personal email with instructions to upload his recommandation letter. When done, you will see in the Application Software that we have received the recommandation letter, but you will not be able to see the document itself.
- If you have it, you can upload the electronic document using the Application Software, in the optional documents section.
- The person who has written the recommandation letter can send it by post mail to the address below.
In cases 3, instead of the recommandation letter, you will upload a short document telling that your recommandation letter will be directly transmitted to us by [name of the writter of the letter].
Contact :
Nadège GUILLEM
Erasmus Mundus Europhotonics Doctorate
Institut Fresnel - Université Aix Marseille III
Domaine Universitaire de Saint-Jérôme
13397 Marseille Cedex 20
FRANCE
emundus.doctorate@fresnel.fr
tel: +33 491 28 83 26
fax: +33 491 28 80 67
In case of technical problems :
Follow the indications given in the FAQ.
