National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)

France’s National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) is the largest fundamental research organisation in Europe and is Imperial’s top international institutional collaborator.
In 2018, Imperial and CNRS set up a joint laboratory in London – the UMI Abraham de Moivre –which serves as a hub for collaborations between the French and UK mathematics communities.
The UMI is CNRS’s first international joint research unit in the UK, and has already hosted dozens of French mathematicians, organised workshops, published research papers and collaborated with other fields such as physics, computer science, biology, economics and social sciences.
Explore our programmes
- UMI Abraham De Moivre – joint mathematics lab
- Imperial-CNRS Doctoral Training programme
- Imperial-CNRS Research Seed Fund - closes 1 November 2020
- Imperial-CNRS Fellowships (Mathematics)
- Imperial’s Theoretical Physics Group is the UK lead partner for CNRS International Research Network on Quantum Strings and Fields.
Explore our partnership
- Imperial and France’s CNRS expand partnership with joint PhD and data projects. Imperial and CNRS have launched first projects of their joint PhD programme and announced the first winners of their seed fund on big data. College’s Theoretical Physics has also been named as the UK lead partner for CNRS International Research Network on Quantum Strings and Fields.
- Imperial and France’s CNRS launch PhD joint programme in Mathematical Sciences. Imperial and CNRS have announced the launch of a new joint PhD programme in mathematics and data. The programme provides excellent cross-institutional research opportunities for PhDs students, including visits to each other’s labs.
- Imperial wins major grant to develop data clusters with top global partners. Imperial-CNRS data cluster supports projects in mathematics and fosters joint innovation and academic exchange between the two universities.
- Fields Medal winners launch new mathematics laboratory. The joint Imperial-CNRS mathematics laboratory represents an important milestone in Franco-British cooperation in mathematics, further strengthening strong ties between Imperial and CNRS.