Thesis topics
For most of you, the subject of your thesis will be born from an encounter with a researcher or teacher-researcher, within your teaching and research department (DER), in the Master 1 or Master 2 courses, during a stay in a laboratory in France or abroad, after a seminar...
Thesis topics are thus most of the time subjects proposed by the thesis director. The way it will be treated depends on you.
How to find a topic?
For normaliens: annual interviews with the department
The idea for a thesis can also be born during annual meetings with your teaching or research department heads, or after consulting websites where subjects are posted or defended.
Check out some of the websites
- For the University of Paris-Saclay, the diffusion of the subjects is done for example via the ADUM tool.
- You can also access the defenses via the ADUM website.
Subjects and defenses are grouped by doctoral school. The institutional sites of other French schools and universities also contain numerous offers.
- The thesis defenses and theses in progress are grouped in a national database that can be consulted.
A personal idea
The idea for your thesis can also be yours and it will be your responsibility to find a laboratory and a thesis supervisor to co-construct and concretize the project. The financing of a thesis by a doctoral contract specific to Normalien is perfectly adapted to this situation.