Application (M1)

Recruiting standard

Selection for the graduate program is made on the basis of
– Quality and feasibility of the proposal.
– Academic or professional record.
– Personal qualifications.
– Relevance and consistency of the research project.
– For non-native English speakers : B2 level in English, at least.

Applicants should pay attention to
– the adequacy of the previous trainings to the requirements of the proposed training,
– the quality of the research project ; we expect a student to have a good analysis of the proposed training offer and use it to build a coherent research training path. With a solid personal project, a student can build a Master with the various expertise required to arm his research project.
– the future prospects towards which the student projects himself.

Three criteria illustrate how your educational trajectory is constructed in a relevant way
– past : valorization of the initial training ;
– present : optimal exploitation of resources provided by the graduate program ;
– future : adequacy between your objectives and your skills gained through the graduate program

Documents for the application form

For applying, you have to prepare the following elements
– Full CV including usual biographical data
– Academic transcripts
– Education and research program, with

• summary : field of study ; concise description of the what, where, and why of the proposed project ; brief description of career and/or educational plans following the AStroParis grant.
• the detailed program for your year(s) with AStroParis (2-3 pages). Develop an intellectually-compelling and feasible project or justification for pursuing a graduate degree program ; pay attention to show how your academic and personal skill can be used for the project, and how they will evolve for building your education/research/professional program.
• two recommendation letters, to be directly sent to the head of the program  ; please indicate the names and function of the persons to whom you have asked for a letter of recommendation.

Application form

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Research projects

All competitive projects in astrophysics conducted in PSL are used as a support for the training.