Our Aix-Marseille site partner structures
The Institute for ocean sciences relies on research teams within 14 research units and connects around 400 staff from Aix-Marseille Université, the CNRS, Centrale Méditerranée, the IFREMER, the IRD, the IRSN and the University of Toulon.
We also have 5 partner faculties with more than 250 students enrolled on master’s programmes affiliated to our institute and 10 partner doctoral schools in our scope, with around 200 PhD students.
Research units
- European centre for research and education in environmental geoscience (CEREGE)
- Comparative and European international law (DICE)
- Study of structures, adaptation processes and changes in space (ESPACE)
- Mediterranean institute of marine and terrestrial biodiversity and ecology (IMBE)
- Mediterranean institute of oceanography (MIO)
- Marseille centre for particle physics (CPPM)
- Provence institute for materials, microelectronics and nanosciences (IM_NP)
- Mediterranean institute for information and communication science (IMSIC)
- Laboratory of environmental chemistry (LCE)
- Computer science and systems laboratory (LIS)
- Mechanics and acoustics laboratory (LMA)
Doctoral schools
AMU
- Legal and political sciences (ED 67)
- Marseille mathematics and computer sciences (ED 184)
- Chemical sciences (ED 250)
- Environmental sciences (ED 251)
- Physics and science of matter (ED 352)
- Engineering sciences (ED 353)
- Spaces, cultures, societies (ED 355)
- Economic and management sciences (ED 372)
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