The Ph.D. fundings at IRIF are financed either by IRIF research grants, or by joint applications of IRIF members and the candidate to outside funding agencies with which IRIF is affiliated. More informations at IRIF PhD opportunities.

In particular, several scholarships are allocated directly from the graduate school ED 386 - École doctorale de Sciences Mathématiques de Paris Centre every year (the call opens in spring and its usual deadline is around mid-June, see calendar below).

Starting 2022, and accordingly to the recommendation of Laboratory council & General assembly (March 29th, 2022), a pre-call is organized by IRIF in order to help potential applicants to improve their file before the formal call of the graduate school ED386.

The application to this pre-call is not mandatory. Applicants can always apply solely to the deadline of ED386, especially if they contacted their advisor after the IRIF pre-call deadline. However, when possible, applying to the pre-call is strongly recommended in order to improve the quality of the final application.

• Deadline for IRIF pre-application: Monday, May 27, 2024
• Feedback from lab council: Wednesday, June 4, 2024
• Application to ED386: from May 6 to June 9, 2024 (see also the ED 386 page)

• Advisor(s)
  • List all advisors: specify the main advisor (from IRIF), possible co-advisors (with their affiliations), and who has an HDR. If no advisor has an HDR please specify who will ask for the supervision authorization (usually given just once in a career).
  • For the main advisor: List of all current PhD students with starting dates and expecting ending dates.
  • For all advisors: List all other fundings in the group, and motivate this application to ED386 (this is the occasion to recommend your student and explain why s.he is worth being awarded the grant: a letter signed by all advisors is advised)
• Topic
  • An abstract (1 page) of the research project (mention title and advisor name(s)).
• Applicant
  • A CV including your Master 1&2 years and respective internships
  • Master 1 transcript, and the provisional Master 2 one
  • A motivation letter
• Not mandatory but highly advisable for the final application:
  • include recommendation letters of supervisors of previous internships, or of other researchers who know the candidate
  • describe the content of the previous internships especially if they are related to the proposed research project
  • include any other document that you think it may be used to better defend the application in the final round.

• The applicant sends a single pdf file to direction+phd@irif.fr while cc'ing all her/his advisors, before the IRIF pre-application deadline

If the applicant has not access to this page (no access to IRIF's intranet), the IRIF advisor can send her/him a copy of this page.

Ranking is carried out by the laboratory council, with each application examined by two councils members (whenever possible, one expert in the field and one non-expert). Ranking is based on the quality of the applications, taking into account resource-optimization criteria (candidates who can obtain other thesis funding are not given priority). The ranking is then established by taking into account the following criteria:

• Quality of the application
• Supervisor and context (first supervision, recent integration into IRIF, thesis part of a strategic collaboration/project, etc.)
• Diversity: candidate/supervisor/subject