Presentation
Department of Earth Sciences
The Department of Earth Sciences brings together 40 faculty members, around 20 engineers and technicians, half a dozen postdocs, and around 15 doctoral students involved in teaching Earth Sciences at Paris-Saclay University.
He coordinates various programs from bachelor’s to doctoral degrees to train:
Master’s degree graduates and technicians in Earth sciences and environmental sciences in the following fields: land use planning, water, civil engineering, geophysics, mineral deposits, mineralogy, sedimentary and endogenous petrography, oil reservoirs, GIS, soils, subsoils, public works, etc.
Researchers or research professors in geochemistry, structural geology, geophysics, hydrogeology, micropaleontology, planetology, sedimentology, and volcanology.
The department organizes numerous field internships (20 weeks spread across the Bachelor’s and Master’s programs), emphasizes project-based learning from the second year of the Bachelor’s program onwards, and supports internships in companies or laboratories in the third year of the Bachelor’s program and the first and second years of the Master’s program. It is committed to providing effective scientific equipment and digital work platforms, which are renewed each year.
The Earth Sciences department plays an active role in the socio-economic life of the Île-de-France region, notably through a vocational program, the master’s degree in “Environment, Geological Engineering,” as well as the involvement of business leaders in our training programs.
The Earth Sciences Department promotes initiatives in terms of educational innovation. For example: