Presentation
Earth Sciences Department
The Earth Sciences Department brings together 39 teacher-researchers, 3 researchers, around twenty engineer-technicians, half a dozen post-docs and around fifteen PhD students to teach Earth Sciences at the University of Paris-Saclay.
The Department of Earth Sciences coordinates a range of courses from undergraduate to doctoral level to train :
Master’s graduates and technicians in Earth sciences and environmental sciences in the following fields: land use planning, water, civil engineering, geophysics, deposits, mineralogy, sedimentary and endogenous petrography, petroleum reservoirs, GIS, soils, subsoils, public works, etc.
Researchers and lecturers in geochemistry, structural geology, geophysics, hydrogeology, micropalaeontology, planetology, sedimentology and volcanology.
The department organises a large number of field placements (20 weeks between the Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees), emphasises project-based teaching from L2, and supports company or laboratory placements in L3, M1 and M2. It is committed to providing effective scientific equipment and digital work platforms that are renewed each year.
The Earth Sciences department is a key player in the socio-economic world of the Île-de-France region, with two vocational courses in particular, the L3pro ‘Civil engineering and construction’ course and the ‘Environment and geological engineering’ apprenticeship, as well as the involvement of a large number of business people in our courses.
The Earth Sciences department promotes initiatives in terms of pedagogical innovations. For example :