Paris Diderot University

Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (French: Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7)), was a French university[1] located in Paris, France. It was one of the seven universities of the Paris public higher education academy. The university was a member of the Sorbonne Paris University Group since March 31, 2010. It merged with the Paris Descartes University in 2019, gaining its new appellation, the University of Paris.

University of Paris 7
Université Paris 7
TypePublic
Active1970–2019
ChancellorMaurice Quénet
Chancellor of the Universities of Paris
PresidentChristine Clerici
Students26,000
Location
Paris
,
France

48°49′47″N 2°22′51″E
AffiliationsUniversity of Paris
Websitewww.univ-paris-diderot.fr

It was one of the heirs of the old University of Paris, which ceased to exist in 1970. Professors from the faculties of Science, of Medicine and of Humanities chose then to create a new multidisciplinary university. It adopted its current name in 1994 after the 18th-century French philosopher, art critic and writer Denis Diderot.

With two Nobel Prize laureates, two Fields Medal winners and two former French Ministers of Education among its faculty or former faculty, the university is famous for its teaching in science, especially in mathematics.[2] Indeed, many fundamental results of the theory of probability[3] have been discovered at one of its research centres, the Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires (Laboratory of Probability and Random Models). The university is also known for its teaching in psychology, which adopts a specific approach that draws from both psychopathology and psychoanalysis.

The university also hosts many other disciplines: currently, with 2,300 educators and researchers, 1,100 administrative personnel and 26,000 students studying humanities, science or medicine.[4]

Paris Diderot University is a founding member of the higher education and research alliance Sorbonne Paris Cité, a public institution for scientific co-operation, bringing together four renowned Parisian universities and four higher education and research institutes.[5]

Formerly based at the Jussieu Campus, in the 5th arrondissement, the university moved to a new campus in the 13th arrondissement, in the Paris Rive Gauche neighbourhood. The first buildings were brought into use in 2006. The university has many facilities in Paris and two in other places of the general area. In 2012, the university completed its move in its new ultramodern campus.

List of facilities in Paris
"Grands Moulins de Paris" in PRG
Condorcet building, headquarters of the Department of Physics

There are:[6]

UFR (Unité de Formation et de Recherche)

Paris Diderot University offers courses in many fields, each taught in a different sections of the university called UFR - Unité de Formation et de Recherche (Unity of Teaching and Research).[7]

  • UFR of Life Sciences
  • UFR of Chemistry
  • UFR of Computer Sciences
  • UFR of Mathematics
  • UFR of Physics
  • UFR of Science of the Earth, Environment and Planets
  • UFR of English studies
  • UFR of Cross-cultural and Applied Languages studies
  • UFR of Geography, History and Social sciences
  • UFR of Languages and Cultures in East Asia studies (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese)
  • UFR of Letters, Art and Cinema
  • UFR of Linguistics
  • UFR of Psychoanalytical Studies (formerly Human clinical sciences)
  • UFR of Social Sciences
  • UFR of Medicine
  • UFR of Odontology

Academic degrees

There are:

Teachers and former teachers
Nobel Laureate George Fitzgerald Smoot, professor of the university

References
  1. "University Ranking by Academic Academic Performance". URAP. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  2. The university is ranked 47th in the world in mathematics by the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2010.
  3. Brief history of the Laboratory of Probabilites and Random Models Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine
  4. University education in Paris Diderot figures
  5. Presentation of the Sorbonne Paris Cité alliance
  6. Detail of all facilities
  7. List of the Fields and departments
  9. Claude Allègre's resume Archived 2008-12-05 at the Wayback Machine(in French)
  10. resume
  11. Agence universitaire de la Francophonie(in French)
  12. International Federation of Film Critics Archived 2010-11-22 at the Wayback Machine
  13. Vincent Courtillot CV Archived 2010-11-17 at the Wayback Machine(in French)
  14. "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1980". NobelPrize.org. 1 February 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  15. Luc Ferry's CV(in French)
  16. "Julia Kristeva". Julia Kristeva (in French). Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  17. "Élisabeth Roudinesco - Université Paris Diderot". Academia.edu (in Swahili). Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  18. Jean-Michel Savéant CV Archived 2010-06-26 at the Wayback Machine(in French)
  20. Press release Archived 2010-02-18 at the Wayback Machine of the University Paris-Diderot (in French)
  21. "Les leçons du recrutement d'un Prix Nobel américain à Paris-Diderot, par Vincent Berger". Le Monde.fr (in French). 15 February 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  22. "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006". NobelPrize.org. 1 February 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
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