Ecole Doctorale des Sciences de la Terre et de l'Environnement

Thesis topics 2025

Géraldine SCHVERER — 2025-04-04T19:33:40Z

Thesis topics open for application 2025

'IRON' from the ground as a source of energy
Subject submitted by: WELTER Richard - Details and application

Architecture of the Lower Buntsandstein, basement-sediment interval: an outcrop, core and well-log approach
Subject submitted by: BOZETTI Guilherme - Details and application

Integrated Geodetic and Seismic Analysis of Enhanced Geothermal Systems
Subject submitted by: SCHMITTBUHL Jean - Details and application

Depositional and post-depositional processes of the Great Oolite (Jurassic, Upper Rhine Graben): paleo-environments, geodynamic significance, and implications for reservoir properties
Subject submitted by: SCHUSTER Mathieu - Details and application

Forest Hydric Functioning and Modelling
Subject submitted by: BELFORT Benjamin - Details and application

The Bay of Biscay: birth and death of a spreading ridge
Subject submitted by: MARQUIS Guy - Details and application

Multi-modal self-supervised models applied to massive terrain motion products for landslide inventory at regional scales
Subject submitted by: MALET Jean-Philippe - Details and application

Planetary response to Gravitational Waves: applications to the Earth and the Moon
Subject submitted by: ROSAT Séverine - Details and application

Tomography and monitoring of the Astrolabe glacier in Terre Adélie
Subject submitted by: MAGGI Alessia - Details and application

LIVE

Development of a tool for evaluating territorial organization models fostering people adaptation to global change and aid decision-making in terms of mobility
Subject submitted by: BLOND Nadege - Details and application

Ecophysiology and impact of the quagga mussel in Lake Geneva
Subject submitted by: BEISEL Jean-Nicolas - Details and application

Evaluation of Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) and Regulating Ecosystem Services (RES) provided by Green and Blue Infrastructure (GBI) in French Urban Metropolises
Subject submitted by: ZINGRAFF-HAMED Aude - Details and application

A geochemical approach to the geoarchaeology of Ostia and Pompeii
Subject submitted by: ERTLEN Damien - Details and application

RADAR : Riverbed Anthropogenic Debris Analysis and Remediation
Subject submitted by: RIXHON Gilles - Details and application

PhD admission and registration

2016-04-04T09:00:27Z

How to register

In any case, before starting registration, a personal contact with a PhD advisor is necessary (see Research Departments affiliated to the Doctoral School) to define a PhD thesis project and its associated funding.

Case 1 : You hold a university diploma delivered by a foreign university

Before registering, you will have to file an exemption application record (see below)

Case 2 : You hold a french master degree or DEA delivered by a french university

You have to :
Apply for admission : https://amethis3.unistra.fr/

Once you obtain your login and password by email, you must complete an online folder and specify the name of your future Research Department, the title of your thesis, the name of your supervisor.

You will also need to upload online:
an outline of the thesis project (3 pages)
a curriculum
a copy of your master's degree or the validated exemption application, and your Master's degree transcripts
a report of the interview signed by the PhD advisor, the Departement director (interview jury with 3 members from at least 2 of the Departments of the Doctoral School)
proof of funding (copy of the working contract or grant certificate or any another document that justifies a monthly income for at least 3 years)
the signed Doctorate Charter - the Charte does not need to be signed by ED 413 at this stage
the signed doctoral school rules

Once your file is completed it needs online approval by the PhD advisor and by the director of the Research Department

Then you must make an appointment with the director of the doctoral school to validate the whole application.

Then you will proceed to the second step called administrative registration.

What is a PhD

2016-04-04T08:47:47Z

Description and rules

WHAT IS A PhD ?

It is a post-graduate degree (Ministerial act passed 26 May 2016)

What is it to be a PhD student or Doctorate ?

As a post-graduate student, you will work towards your PhD, the highest level of academic degree, whilst carrying out your first professional research experience.

THE PhD STUDENT AND THE DOCTORAL SCHOOL

The main goal of the school is to ‘organise the training of post-graduate students, and to assist their integration into the world of work'.

The Doctoral School :

Provides a range of complementary training.

Ensures compliance with the rules set out in the PhD Charter from the University of Strasbourg for post-graduate students, their supervisors, and the directors of the research departments. This is in order to guarantee a high quality research, and the smooth-running of the PhD.

Sets the rules for post-graduate recruitment.

The PhD Student :

Receives training in research and through research.

Is prepared to continue his/her professional career at the end of the PhD, through additional teaching

Agrees to comply with all the rules and principles of the Doctorate Charter from the University of Strasbourg.

Agrees to comply with the rules set by the Earth and Environmental Sciences Doctoral School