Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille

The Université Lille 1 is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

university

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...

located on a dedicated main campus in Villeneuve d'Ascq

Villeneuve d'Ascq

Villeneuve-d'Ascq is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. With more than 60,000 inhabitants, it is one of the main cities of the Urban Community of Lille Métropole and the largest in area after Lille ; it is also one of the main cities of the Nord-Pas de Calais region.Built up...

with 20,000 full-time students plus 14,500 students in continuing education (2004). 1,310 permanent faculty members plus 1,200 staff and around 140 CNRS researchers work there in the different University Lille 1 institutes and 43 research labs.
University Lille 1 is a member of the European Doctoral College Lille-Nord-Pas de Calais that provides 400 doctorate dissertations every year.

University Lille 1 is established in 1854 in Lille with academic roots back to 1562. It later moves to Villeneuve d'Ascq

Villeneuve d'Ascq

in 1967. The University focuses on sciences and technologies. Law, business management and medical fields are taught in the independent campus of Université de Lille II, while literature and social sciences are taught as part of the independent campus of Université de Lille III

Charles de Gaulle University - Lille III

The Charles de Gaulle University - Lille III is a French university. Since 1974, the main campus of University of Lille III is located in Villeneuve d'Ascq in southern Lille, at Pont de Bois metro station, and includes 21,000 students.University of Lille III inherits from the humanities taught for...

. Altogether, the three university campus in Lille include more than 90,000 students and are the main parts of the Université Lille Nord de France
Université Lille Nord de France
The University of Lille -Nord de France , located in Lille, France, is a center for higher education, academic research and doctoral studies located over multiple campuses in the Academie de Lille....

.

University Lille 1 campus

The main University Lille 1 campus, referred-to as 'cité scientifique' is located in Villeneuve d'Ascq area in Lille suburb, and has a surface of 1.1 km². USTL also has secondary campuses in Lille

Lille

Lille is a city in northern France . It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium...

historical city centre, Sallaumines

Sallaumines

-Administration:Sallaumines is located in the Pas-de-Calais department. It belongs to the Lens-Liévin interommunality which consists of 36 communes, with a total population of 250,000 inhabitants.-History:...

, Tourcoing

Tourcoing

Tourcoing is a city in northern France. It is designated municipally as a commune within the département of Nord.Tourcoing is situated near the cities of Lille and Roubaix and the Belgian border.-Main sights:...

and Wimereux

Wimereux

Wimereux is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.-Geography:Wimereux is a coastal town situated some north of Boulogne, at the junction of the D233 and the D940 roads, on the banks of the river Wimereux. The river Slack forms the northern boundary of...

(Marine station).

University Lille 1 is located on the same 'cité scientifique' campus as École nationale supérieure de chimie de Lille and Ecole Centrale de Lille

École Centrale de Lille

Located in the campus of the University of Lille in France, École Centrale de Lille is a renowned Graduate Engineering school, with roots back to 1854 as the École des arts industriels et des mines de Lille, re-organised in 1872 as Institut industriel du Nord.It is one of the Centrale Graduate...

: these independent entities have established a number of joint research laboratories with USTL.

University Lille 1 faculties and doctoral college

University Lille 1 faculties include

UFR biology ("SN" buildings as in "sciences naturelles", natural sciences)
UFR chemistry
UFR geography
UFR mathematics
UFR physics
UFR economy and social sciences
UFR earth sciences
UFR electronics, electrotechnics, control and computer sciences

In addition to standard science curricula, providing bachelor (licence), master and doctorate degrees provided by University Lille 1 faculties, University Lille 1 also includes a number of specialized education and research units run by the University, for undergraduate and graduate students:

:fr:Institut d'électronique de microélectronique et de nanotechnologie (IEMN) Electronics, micro- & nano- technologies
:fr:École Polytechnique Universitaire de Lille (Polytech'Lille) Engineering
:fr:TELECOM Lille 1 Telecommunications
:fr:IUP :fr:MIAGE Information systems for business applications
:fr:IUP :fr:GMI Maths & information theory
:fr:IUP Bio-technologies & Bio-industries
:fr:IUP Génie de l’environnement - Environment management
Institut d'Aménagement et d'Urbanisme de Lille (IAUL) Urban engineering
:fr:Institut universitaire de technologie (IUT "A" de Lille). Undergraduate courses in technologies

University Lille 1 has also its own Business management school

Institut d'Administration des Entreprises de Lille (IAE)

University Lille 1 participate to the European Doctoral College Lille Nord-Pas de Calais

European Doctoral College Lille Nord-Pas de Calais

- From doctoral research to innovation applications :The European Doctoral College Université Lille Nord de France is a hub for doctoral researchers and contributes to the Lisbon strategy to make Europe 'the most competitive and knowledge-based economy in the world and a reference for high quality...

that provides 400 doctorate dissertations per year.

Religion

The University is owning a pray room for muslims.
The room are situated at the residence : "Camus" and the residence "Bachelar" in the scientific campus.
Mohamed LOUIZI was temporary a prayer organisator.

History

1562: Foundation of the University of Douai, 30km south of Lille city centre, delivering courses in law and humanities;
1854: Establishment of the Faculty of Sciences in Lille city, reporting to University of Douai ;
1854: Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax. His experiments...

as first dean of the Faculty of Sciences of Lille ;
1896: Université de Lille, regrouping Faculties located in Lille, becomes an independent University ;
1971: Transfer of the Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (USTL) on a new campus in Lille suburb ;
2008: Enhanced research cooperation through Université Lille Nord de France
Université Lille Nord de France
The University of Lille -Nord de France , located in Lille, France, is a center for higher education, academic research and doctoral studies located over multiple campuses in the Academie de Lille....

.

Faculty and staff

Faculty and staff in alphabetical order.

Charles Barrois
Charles Barrois
Charles Barrois was a French geologist and palaeontologist.Barrois was born at Lille and educated at the college in that town, where he studied geology under Professor Jules Gosselet...

(1851-1939), professor, geologist.
Émile Borel
Émile Borel
Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel was a French mathematician and politician.Borel was born in Saint-Affrique, Aveyron. Along with René-Louis Baire and Henri Lebesgue, he was among the pioneers of measure theory and its application to probability theory. The concept of a Borel set is named in his...

(1871-1956), mathematician and member of parliament.
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher.Starting from the role of economic capital for social positioning, Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location,...

(1930-2002), lecturer, sociologist.
Joseph Boussinesq (1842-1929), professor, mathematician, fluid mechanics specialist
Henri Cartan
Henri Cartan
Henri Paul Cartan was a French mathematician with substantial contributions in algebraic topology. He was the son of the French mathematician Élie Cartan.-Life:...

(1904-2008), professor, mathematician.
Albert Châtelet
Albert Châtelet
Albert Châtelet was a French politician and scientist. Châtelet received his teaching degree from the École Normale Supérieure in 1908. After earning a doctorate in 1913, Châtelet became a lecturer at École centrale de Lille and a professor at Université de Lille, rising to the rank of ...

(1883-1960), professor, mathematician, politician.
Joseph Kampé de Fériet
Joseph Kampé de Fériet
Marie-Joseph Kampé de Fériet was professor at Université Lille Nord de France from 1919 to 1969...

(1893-1982), professor, physicist, chairman of mechanics from 1930 to 1969.
Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers
Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers
Félix Joseph Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers was a French biologist, anatomist and zoologist who was born in Montpezat in the department of Lot-et-Garonne. He studied medicine in Paris, and worked at Necker Hospital under Armand Trousseau . Later, with Jules Haime , he travelled to the Balearic Islands...

(1821-1901), professor, anatomiste, biologist, zoologist.
Claude Auguste Lamy (1820-1878), professor, chemist, discoverer of the element thallium
Thallium
Thallium is a chemical element with the symbol Tl and atomic number 81. This soft gray poor metal resembles tin but discolors when exposed to air. The two chemists William Crookes and Claude-Auguste Lamy discovered thallium independently in 1861 by the newly developed method of flame spectroscopy...

.
Szolem Mandelbrojt (1899-1983), professor, mathematician.
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax. His experiments...

(1822-1895), professor, chemist and physicist, first dean of the science faculty.
Paul Painlevé
Paul Painlevé
Paul Painlevé was a French mathematician and politician. He served twice as Prime Minister of the Third Republic: 12 September – 13 November 1917 and 17 April – 22 November 1925.-Early life:Painlevé was born in Paris....

(1863-1933), professor, mathematician.
Henri Padé
Henri Padé
Henri Eugène Padé was a French mathematician, who is now remembered mainly for his development of approximation techniques for functions using rational functions.He was educated at École Normale Supérieure in Paris...

(1863-1953), professor, mathematician.
Ernest Vessiot
Ernest Vessiot
Ernest Vessiot was a French mathematician. He was born in Marseille, France and died in La Bauche, Savoie, France...

(1865-1952), professor, mathematician.

Alumni

Alumni in alphabetical order. This list include alumni who are also faculty.

Charles Barrois
Charles Barrois
Charles Barrois was a French geologist and palaeontologist.Barrois was born at Lille and educated at the college in that town, where he studied geology under Professor Jules Gosselet...

(1851-1939), professor, geologist.
Louis Chauvel
Louis Chauvel
Louis Chauvel, born in 1967, is a French sociologist, full professor at Sciences Po , PhD Université de Lille , Habilitation Sciences Po . He is specialized in social generations, in the analysis of social structures, in cohort and generational change...

(1967-), professor, sociologist.
Marc-Philippe Daubresse
Marc-Philippe Daubresse
Marc-Philippe Daubresse was the French Minister for Youth and Active Solidarities.-Biography:Marc-Philippe Daubresse was born on August 1st, 1953 in Lille, Nord. He is a graduate of the École centrale de Lille, the Institut Industriel du Nord, and the Institut d'Administration des Entreprises...

(1953-), mayor, member of parliament, French
French people
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Minister
Minister (government)
A minister is a politician who holds significant public office in a national or regional government. Senior ministers are members of the cabinet....

for Youth and Active Solidarities.
Louis Dollo
Louis Dollo
Louis Antoine Marie Joseph Dollo was a French-born Belgian palaeontologist, known for formulating Dollo's law. He graduated as an engineer at École Centrale de Lille in France. In 1878, he supervised the excavation of the famous, multiple Iguanodon find, at Bernissart, Belgium. Recently, the...

(1857-1931), paleontologist
Jean Théodore Delacour
Jean Théodore Delacour
Jean Théodore Delacour was an American ornithologist of French origin. He was renowned for not only discovering but also rearing some of the rarest birds in the world...

(1890-1985), doctor, ornithologist.
Jean Hélion
Jean Hélion
Jean Hélion was a French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist. His midcareer rejection of abstraction was followed by nearly five decades as a figurative painter...

(1904-1987), painter.
Jacky Hénin
Jacky Henin
Jacky Hénin is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. He is a member of the French Communist Party, which is part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.He is also...

(1960-), politician.
Vladimir Jankélévitch
Vladimir Jankélévitch
Vladimir Jankélévitch was a French philosopher and musicologist.- Biography :Jankélévitch was the son of Russian Jewish parents, who had emigrated to France....

(1903-1985), philosoph, musicologist.
Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi
Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi
Dr. Mohammad Ali Modjtahedi was an Iranian University professor and lifetime principal of the highly prestigious Alborz High School in Tehran, Iran....

(1908-), Iranian University professor and lifetime principal of the Alborz High School in Tehran.
Faustin-Archange Touadéra
Faustin-Archange Touadéra
Faustin-Archange Touadéra has been Prime Minister of the Central African Republic since January 2008.-Background and academic career:Touadéra was born in Bangui; his family was originally from Damara, to the north of Bangui...

(1957-), professor of mathematics, rector of the University of Bangui
University of Bangui
The University of Bangui is a public university located in Bangui, Central African Republic. As of 2006, it is the only university in the Central African Republic.- History :...

and Prime Minister of the Central African Republic
Central African Republic
The Central African Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the north east, South Sudan in the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo in the south, and Cameroon in the west. The CAR covers a land area of about ,...

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See also Notable alumni and faculty from Université Lille Nord de France

External links

Université Lille 1 website

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