Once you have completed your thesis manuscript and set up your thesis jury strictly in accordance with the instructions below, you can start your defense application on ADUM.
We strongly advise you to have the jury validated by the Doctoral School Management as soon as you know it, without waiting for your defense application.
Statutory deadlines are:
- 8 weeks between manuscript submission and defense date
- Rapporteurs must submit their reports no later than 3 weeks before the defense.
Deadlines are extended during the summer and end-of-year holidaysFor
any further questions, please contact the Doctoral School: ed352-direction@univ-amu.fr
The jury must be made up of:
- 4 to 8 membersat
- least half of whom must be A grade: Research Director, University Professor.
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at least half of whom must be from outside Aix Marseille Université (including CEA-Cadarache and Ecole Centrale Méditerranée).
- The jury chairman must be A grade. A rapporteur may act as chairman. A Professor or Director of Research Emeritus may not be Jury President - The Jury President must be physically present at the thesis defenseThe
- thesis director participates in the Jury but does not take part in the decision.
- The composition of the Jury must allow a balanced representation of both sexes.
Here is a document with grade equivalences for foreign members of the Jury.
Important : For doctoral students enrolled in a cotutelle program, the official agreement determines how the jury is constituted.
- Any holder of an HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches), whatever their position (grade A or B), may act as rapporteur.
For foreign grades: Full Professor only is equivalent to holding an HDR, and no CV will be requested in this case.
- For proposed rapporteurs whose functions do not fall into the above-mentioned categories, an exemption will be requested. A CV will be sent to the ED management along with a letter from the thesis director justifying the choice of this rapporteur. Please note that the process of acceptance and appointment of the rapporteur by the Doctoral School Management and then by the Doctoral College Council may take up to 4 weeks, in addition to the 8 weeks initially required.
- Both rapporteurs must be from outside Aix-Marseille Université (including CEA-Cadarache and Ecole Centrale Méditerranée), and in the case of a co-director from another institution, the rapporteurs may not be members of his or her institution.
- They must not be attached to the same laboratory.
- They must not have co-authored any publications with the doctoral student, nor be involved in his or her work.
- Except in duly justified special cases, the referees must not have co-authored any publications with the thesis supervisors during the last 5 years.
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Rapporteurs must not be members of the Comité de Suivis Individuels (CSI).
Important : For doctoral students registered on a cotutelle basis, the official agreement determines how the committee is constituted.
The manuscript can be written in French or English.
The AMU template to be used is available here:
first pages of the manuscript should include:
- the manuscript cover page according to the AMU template (to be completed without making any modifications and without changing the font), the laboratory logo should be located at the bottom of the template.
- (in the case of a cotutelle thesis, the logo of the partner university must appear at the top right of the template),
- the dated and signed affidavit,
- the list of publications and conferences: the doctoral student must be the principal author of a publication relating to his/her thesis work in a peer-reviewed journal,
- the abstracts in French and English (1700 characters, or 1 page max each),
- the extended abstract in French of the thesis if the manuscript is in English (10 pages).
- the thesis itself.
In the event of a request for confidentiality, the completed form, signed by all parties, must be submitted to ADUM beforehand
. If the defense is held outside AMU premises: submit the form, signed by all parties, to ADUM, together with a letter from the thesis director explaining the reasons for a delocalized defense.