Deadline for on-line, e-mail and express mail applications :
- non-EU students : THE APPLICATION IS NOW CLOSED
- EU students : THE APPLICATION IS NOW CLOSED
“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.
“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.
EU students must apply to phD projects involving countries in which they did not obtain their last university degree
Deadline for the notification of the evaluation results to the candidates (by e-mail) :
European and Non european students : THE APPLICATION IS NOW CLOSED
In order to apply :
1) Download the Application form, and fill in all the required fields. You can use the spreadsheet software of your choice, for instance OpenOffice Calc that can be freely downloaded here for the standard version, or here for a portable version (Windows only). PLEASE SAVE THIS FORM IN THE EXCEL FORMAT : NO PDF.
In the Application form you have to select a list of preference for 4 phD projects maximum among the 15 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. EU students must apply to phD projects involving countries in which they did not obtain their last university degree.
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. Note that the maximum size of each uploaded document is 6MB.
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.
Finish the electronic submission using the “Declaration & Post” menu.
3) When the electronic submission is finished, send us by post mail the signed Application Form to the postal address given below.
List of the phD projects for the 2010 application :
The details of the projects can be found here.
| Project n° | Project Title | Involved Institutions |
| 1 | Transport at the nanoscale | LENS – ICFO |
| 2 | Functional bio-imaging in cells and tissues | LENS – Institut Fresnel |
| 3 | Metamaterial-based optical manipulation and trapping | ICFO – Institut Fresnel |
| 4 | Hybrid transparent electrodes for organic optoelectronic devices | ICFO – KIT |
| 5 | Volume reduction and enhanced molecular detection with Nano-antennas | ICFO – Institut Fresnel |
| 6 | Nanostructuring for light trapping in solar cells | ICFO – Institut Fresnel |
| 7 | Depth Resolved Cerebral Blood Flow (CBF) Imaging in Animal Models using Spatial and Temporal Statistics of Laser Speckle | ICFO – Institut Fresnel |
| 8 | Plasmon-soliton coupling | ICFO – Institut Fresnel |
| 9 | Photogrammetric fringe-projection techniques for reflective surfaces | UPC – KIT |
| 10 | Optimization of light supercontinuum generation by temporal pulse shaping for nonlinear microscopy | ICFO – Institut Fresnel |
| 11 | Light propagation in periodic gain/loss modulated materials | UPC – LENS |
| 12 | Integrated Atom devices | LENS – ICFO (not identified) |
| 13 | Nanostructured photonic materials | LENS – KIT |
| 14 | Photonic quasicrystals | LENS – Institut Fresnel |
| 15 | 3D Deflectometric measurement techniques for highly reflecting surfaces | UPC – KIT |
List of the documents you need to collect :
| Documents | Electronically collected by the Application Software | Sent by post mail |
| Your profile (online form) | * | |
| Application Form | * | * |
| Photo | * | |
| 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. | * | |
| Certified English translation of transcripts (BsC or equivalent, MsC, ..) | * | |
| Clear copy of passport | * | |
| Documentation for language tests (copy of the TOEFL score / IELTS report sheet) | * | |
| Letter of motivation | * | |
| Recommandation letter of reference 1* | * | |
| Recommandation letter of reference 2* | * | |
| Up-to-date curriculum vitae (2 pages maximum) | * | |
| Other optional document | optional |
* In order to submit the recommandation letters, you have 3 possibilities :
- If you have it, you can upload the electronic document using the Application Software,
- The person who has written the recommandation letter can send it electronically to emundus.doctorate@fresnel.fr,
- The person who has written the recommandation letter can send it by post mail to the address below.
In cases 2 and 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].
For students who are not able to provide the documents online, there is a possibility to send the copies by express mail (before deadline) to the address below. Please send an e-mail first to emundus.doctorate@fresnel.fr justifying your request (indicate in the subject of your e-mail : “EXPRESS MAIL APPLICATION REQUIRED”).
The printed and signed version of the Application Form should be sent by post mail to :
Cynthia JULIEN
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.