Université Paris-Saclay | |
Former name | University of Paris Sud XI Paris Faculty of Sciences in Orsay |
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Type | Public research university |
Established | c. 1150 University of Paris 1956 University of Paris in Orsay 1971 Paris-Sud University 2014 As a community[1] 2019 Replaces Paris-Sud University |
Chancellor | Christophe Kerrero (Chancellor of the universities of Paris) |
President | Estelle Iacona[2] |
Academic staff | 10,500[3] |
Students | 60,000[3] |
Undergraduates | 5,400 |
Postgraduates | 23,300 |
6,000 | |
Location | , , 48°42′42″N 2°10′17″E / 48.7117343°N 2.1712888°E |
Campus | Campus of Saclay (Orsay - Gif), Campus of Versailles, Campus of Évry , Campus of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Campus of Paris |
Website | universite-paris-saclay.fr |
Paris-Saclay University (French: Université Paris-Saclay) is a combined technological research institute and public research university in Paris, France. Paris-Saclay was established in 2019 after the merger of four technical grandes écoles, as well as several technological institutes, engineering schools, and research facilities; giving it fifteen constituent colleges with over 48,000 students combined.[4]
With the merger, the French government has explicitly voiced their wish to rival top American technological research institutes, such as the MIT.[5][6][7] The university has over 275 laboratories in particle physics,[8] nuclear physics,[9][10] astrophysics,[11] atomic physics and molecular physics,[12] condensed matter physics,[13] theoretical physics,[14] electronics, nanoscience and nanotechnology.[15] It is part of the larger Paris-Saclay cluster, which is a research-intensive academic campus encompassing Paris-Saclay University, the Polytechnic Institute of Paris, combined with a business cluster for high-technology corporations.[16][17] Paris-Saclay notably also includes the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, where many contributions to the development of modern mathematics have been made, amongst them modern algebraic geometry and catastrophe theory.[18]
As of 2021, 11 Fields Medalists and 4 Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with the university and its associated research institutes.[19]
BBC report 2014
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