Post-doctoral research grants
The next campaign will be open from January 10 to March 31, 2022 HERE
Goal of the post-doctoral study :
The post-doctoral research grants are awarded for a maximum period of two years to young doctors working of domains related to the space programmes in order to complete their resume for an integration in the research or industrial worlds.
By doing so, CNES wants to promote the recruitment of high-skilled researchers to work on focused topics of the space programmes. The applicant selection is thus mainly focusing on the qualities and future capacities to integrate a research organisation or an industrial establishment.
Criteria selection
This quality condition leds CNES to establish extremely rigorous selection criteria basing themselves on the recruitment criteria of the French Committee of scientific research (formation, profile, scientific productions, mobility, etc.) even if the topic remains crucial for CNES.
The post-doctoral study has to be achieved in France in a non-CNES laboratory However, a partnership with a foreign laboratory can be considered.
Since the post-doctoral CNES study topic in theses domains are not shortlisted, applicants are invited to propose first their research project and the host laboratory to the CNES responsible of the thematics for a first evaluation.
Thematics and contacts for universe sciences, microgravity and exploration
- Astronomy, astrophysics : Philippe LAUDET
- Exobiology, exoplanets : Christian Mustin
- Fundamental physics : Isabelle PETITBON
- Exploration : Jean BLOUVAC
- Sun, heliosphere, magnetosphere : Kader AMSIF
- Solar system : Francis ROCARD
- Material sciences : Christophe DELAROCHE
- Life sciences : Guillemette GAUQUELIN-KOCH
Thematics and contacts for Earth sciences, enviRonment and climate
- Atmosphere, meteorology : Adrien DESCHAMPS
- Atmosphere composition : Carole DENIEL
- Ocean : Annick SYLVESTRE-BARON
- Ocean, continental environment, cryosphere : Anne LIFERMANN
- Continental surfaces, hydrology : Philippe MAISONGRANDE
- Continental surfaces, health : Mireille Paulin
- Solid Earth, geodesy, cartography : Mioara MANDEA
Thematics and contacts for Humanities and Social Sciences
- Humanities and Social Sciences : Céline Calleya
Thematics and contacts for orbital systems
- Quality assurance : Pierre TASTET
- Automatics and attitude control : Pascal DESMAZEAUX
- Avionics ans systems architecture : Françoise PERREL
- Command and control : Françoise PERREL
- Digital technologies for remote sensing : Céline TISON
- Electrical : Yann Michel
- Electronics Components: Pierre TASTET
- Flight dynamics : Pascal DESMAZEAUX
- GNSS and Navigation system, Telecommunications and Time-Frequency : Anthony Bellion
- Materials and processes : Pierre TASTET
- Mechanical and Thermal Engineering : Yann Michel
- Microwave and optical scientific instrumentation : Jean-Marc LAHERRERE
- Onboard software : Yann Michel
- Physical principles and image processing (for earth observation) : Jean-Marc LAHERRERE
- Propusion : Yann Michel
- Space environment and effects : Pierre TASTET
- Structures : Yann Michel
NB : Please note that only post-doctoral topics in space transport systems are preselected. You can find the complete list HERE