Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 (french: link=no, Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, UCBL) is one of the three public universities of Lyon, France. It is named after the French

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Claude Bernard and specialises in science and technology, medicine, and sports science. It was established in 1971 by the merger of the 'faculté des sciences de Lyon' with the 'faculté de médecine'. The main administrative, teaching and research facilities are located in Villeurbanne, with other campuses located in Gerland, Rockefeller, and Laennec in the

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. Attached to the University are the

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, including the 'Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud', which is the largest teaching hospital in the Rhône-Alpes region and the second-largest in France. The university has been independent since January 2009. In 2020 it managed an annual budget of over €420 million and had 2857 faculty.

History

On 17 March 1808,

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founded the University of France, a national organisation with responsibility for formal education from

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through to university level. This decree created the

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within the University and established the Lyon Faculty of Science. The Lyon Faculty of Medicine was founded on 8 November 1874 and was later merged with the Faculty of Science on 8 December 1970 to create Claude Bernard University.

Locations and buildings

Main sites

The university is not located on a single campus but has departments and other facilities distributed across several key sites throughout Lyon and the wider region. The LyonTech-la Doua campus located north of Villeurbanne and east of Lyon's

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hosts the administrative headquarters of the university as well as its Faculties of Science and Technology and of Sport Sciences. A second key site, the Lyon Health East Campus, is located in the eighth arrondissement next to the Edouard Herriot hospital and the Vinatier medical centre. It hosts the Faculty of Odontology and the Lyon East Faculty of Medicine, in addition to several research institutes dedicated to medical and biological sciences.

Areas of study

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Natural science

* Biology *

Chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

and Biochemistry *

Mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

* Physics *

Earth science Earth science or geoscience includes all fields of natural science related to the planet Earth. This is a branch of science dealing with the physical, chemical, and biological complex constitutions and synergistic linkages of Earth's four spheres ...

Electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

* Computer science * Mechanical engineering

Public health

* Medicine *

Pharmacy Pharmacy is the science and practice of discovering, producing, preparing, dispensing, reviewing and monitoring medications, aiming to ensure the safe, effective, and affordable use of medicines. It is a miscellaneous science as it links heal ...

Odontology Dentistry, also known as dental medicine and oral medicine, is the branch of medicine focused on the teeth, gums, and mouth. It consists of the study, diagnosis, prevention, management, and treatment of diseases, disorders, and conditions o ...

* Audiology *

Occupational therapy Occupational therapy (OT) is a global healthcare profession. It involves the use of assessment and intervention to develop, recover, or maintain the meaningful activities, or ''occupations'', of individuals, groups, or communities. The field of ...

Physiotherapy Physical therapy (PT), also known as physiotherapy, is one of the allied health professions. It is provided by physical therapists who promote, maintain, or restore health through physical examination, diagnosis, management, prognosis, patient ...

Speech therapy Speech is a human vocal communication using language. Each language uses phonetic combinations of vowel and consonant sounds that form the sound of its words (that is, all English words sound different from all French words, even if they are th ...

* Ophthalmology * Psychomotricity

Other

* Sport (STAPS, "''Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives''") *

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of Lyon * ISFA, Graduate School of Actuarial Studies (ISFA, "''Institut de Science Financière et d'Assurances''") * Engineering school

École polytechnique universitaire de l'université Lyon-I École polytechnique universitaire de l'université Lyon-I (''Polytech Lyon'') a French engineering College created in 1992. The school trains engineers in six majors: * Computer Science Engineering * Materials Science and Engineering * Applied ...

Reputation

The university was ranked 9-11 out of universities in France and in the 201-300 band of world universities by

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2021.

Notable faculty

Mathematics

Geneviève Comte-Bellot Geneviève Comte-Bellot (born 29 July 1929) is a French physicist specialising in fluid dynamics. She is known for her work on turbulence and aeroacoustics. Biography Comte-Bellot was born on 29 July 1929. After obtaining her diploma from the ...

(born 1929) - physicist *

John Adrian Bondy John Adrian Bondy (born 1944 in London) is a retired English mathematician, known for his work in combinatorics and graph theory. Career Bondy received his Ph.D. in graph theory from the University of Oxford in 1969. His advisor was Dominic W ...

(born 1942) - mathematician * Michelle Schatzman (1949-2010) - mathematician * Jean-Louis Nicolas - number theorist * Pierre Auger (born 1953) - bio-mathematician *

Fokko du Cloux Fokko du Cloux (20 December 1954, Rheden – 10 November 2006) was a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist. He worked on the Atlas of Lie groups and representations until his death. Career in mathematics Du Cloux was based at the Institut Gi ...

(1954-2006) - Dutch mathematician and computer scientist *

Christian Krattenthaler Christian Friedrich Krattenthaler (born 8 October 1958 in Vienna) is an Austrian mathematician. He is a professor of discrete mathematics (with a focus on combinatorics). From 2016 to 2020 he has been the Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics at the ...

(born 1958) - mathematician *

Marta Macho Stadler Marta Macho Stadler (Bilbao, 1962) is a Basque mathematician, expert in scientific divulgation. She teaches undergraduate courses on geometry and topology at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU and her research area is the Geometric The ...

(born 1962) - Basque mathematician *

Marie-France Sagot Marie-France Sagot is director of research at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) and a member of staff at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 where she works on algorithms for computational biology and gene ...

- computational biologist *

Isabelle Daniel Isabelle Daniel is a mineralogist at the Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in Lyon, France. She studies minerals under extreme conditions, such as those that exist in Earth's mantle, as well as biosignatures of early life. Education Daniel earn ...

- mineralogist *

Marivi Fernández-Serra Maria Victoria (Marivi) Fernández-Serra is a Spanish condensed matter physicist known for her research applying density functional theory to the structure and dynamics of water. Other topics in her research include supercomputer simulations of ...

- physicist *

Tuna Altınel Tuna Altınel is a Turkish mathematician, born February 12, 1966, in Istanbul, who has worked at the Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, University Lyon 1 in France since 1996. He is a specialist in group theory and mathematical logic. With Alexan ...

(born 1966) - mathematician *

Sylvie Benzoni Sylvie Benzoni-Gavage (born 1967) is a French mathematician known for her research in partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, traffic flow, shock waves, and phase transitions. In 2017 she was named as the director of the Institut Henri Po ...

(born 1967) - mathematician *

Vincent Calvez Vincent Calvez (born 24 August 1981) is a French mathematician. He is currently a directeur de recherche (senior researcher) at the Institute Camille Jordan at the Claude Bernard University Lyon 1. He is known for his work in mathematical model ...

(born 1981) - mathematician

Medicine

Antonin Poncet Antonin Poncet (28 March 1849, Saint-Trivier-sur-Moignans, Ain – 16 September 1913) was a French surgeon. Son of Jean Joseph Poncet and Catherine Jeanne Chabalier, he was inspired by his grandfather Jean-Pierre Antoine Chabalier, surgeon in th ...

(1849-1913) - surgeon *

Jean-Louis Touraine Jean-Louis Touraine (born 8 October 1945) is a French politician and professor of medicine who served as a member of the National Assembly for Rhône's 3rd constituency from 2007 to 2022. He is a member of La République En Marche (LREM). Profess ...

(born 1945) - professor of medicine *

Gilles Salles Gilles Salles is a French haematologist who joined the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York in 2020 after a career as a French University Professor & Medical Doctor in Lyon University Hospitals (France). He is specialized in hemato ...

- haematologist *

Véronique Trillet-Lenoir Véronique Trillet-Lenoir (; 12 June 19579 August 2023) was a French oncologist and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who was elected as a member of the European Parliament in 2019. After joining the Parliament, Trillet-Lenoir was a ...

(born 1957) - oncologist and politician * Patrick Froehlich (born 1961) - physician and novelist *

David Servan-Schreiber David Servan-Schreiber (April 21, 1961 – July 24, 2011) was a French people, French physician, neuroscientist and author. He was a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He was also a lecturer in the ...

(1961-2011) - physician and neuroscientist

Notable alumni

Academic

* Cécile Mourer-Chauviré (born 1939) - paleontologist *

Christian Dumas Christian Dumas is a French biologist born on January 2, 1943. He is a professor at the École normale supérieure (ENS) in Lyon. Dumas has devoted himself to the study of the specific sexual reproduction mechanisms of flowering plants and their ...

(born 1943) - biologist *

Jean Bellissard Jean Vincent Bellissard (born 1 March 1946, Lyon) is a French theoretical physicist and mathematical physicist, known for his work on C*-algebras, K-theory, noncommutative geometry as applied to solid state physics, particularly, to quantum Hall ef ...

(born 1946) - mathematical physicist * Francis Clarke (born 1948) - mathematician *

Rabesa Zafera Antoine Antoine Zafera Rabesa (born in Antsohihy, French Madagascar) is a Malagasy people, Malagasy. He was President of the University of Mahajanga from 23 April 2010 until 10 October 2014. Academic career Studies After his graduation, Antoine obta ...

(born 1950) - plant biologist, university president * Muhammad Baydoun (1952-2022) - Lebanese mathematician and politician * Jean Decety (born 1960) - neuroscientist * Uwe Rau - German physicist *

Teresa Torres Teresa Torres is a Chilean palaeontologist best known for her work linking Antarctic fossils to those found in Patagonia Patagonia () refers to a geographical region that encompasses the southern end of South America, governed by Argentina a ...

- Chilean paleontologist * Raphaèle Herbin - mathematician *

Nouria Salehi Nouria Sultana Salehi is an Afghan-Australian nuclear physicist, biophysicist and humanitarian. She is the founder of the Afghan Australian Development Organisation. Early life and education Salehi was born in Afghanistan and was educated a ...

- Afghan-Australian nuclear physicist, biophysicist and humanitarian *

Patrick Mehlen Patrick Mehlen (born in 1968), is a French biologist and research director at the Centre national de recherche scientifique (CNRS) at the Centre Léon-Bérard, a cancer research centre in Lyon. Education Patrick Mehlen, a former student at the � ...

(born 1968) - biologist *

Hélène Courtois Hélène (Di Nella) Courtois (born 1970) is a French astrophysicist specialising in cosmography. She is a professor at the University of Lyon 1 and has been a chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques since 2015. As the director of a resea ...

(born 1970) - astrophysicist *

Catherine Tallon-Baudry Catherine Tallon-Baudry is a CNRS senior researcher and group leader working at the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris. Biography Tallon-Baudry completed her PhD at the Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in 1997 working with Olivier Bertrand. In 1 ...

- electrophysiologist *

Theodora Hatziioannou Theodora Hatziioannou ( el, Θεοδώρα Χατζηιωάννου) is a Greek-American virologist. She known for her work discovering restriction factors that counteract HIV-AIDS and other primate lentiviruses, thus restricting them to specific ...

- virologist

Sports

Ahmad Ahmad Ahmad Ahmad (born 30 December 1959) is a Malagasy politician and football leader. He was the President of the Confederation of African Football, and vice-president of FIFA from 2017 to 2021. Biography Ahmad Ahmad was born in Madagascar ...

(born 1959) - Malagasy football manager and politician *

Louisa Cadamuro Louisa Nécib Cadamuro (; born 23 January 1987) is a French former professional footballer who played for the France national team. She spent the majority of her career at Lyon, amassing eighteen titles with the French club over a nine-year spa ...

(born 1967) - professional footballer * Gwendal Peizerat (born 1972) - ice dancer *

Romain Haguenauer Romain Haguenauer (born 16 July 1976) is a French ice dancing coach, choreographer, and former competitor. He is best known for his work with the French five-time World and 2022 Olympic champions Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron; and with ...

(born 1976) - ice dancing coach *

Assile Toufaily Assile Toufaily ( ar, أسيل طفيلي; born 16 August 1996) is a Lebanese former footballer who played as a midfielder. She also played futsal. Club career Toufaily became interested in football aged six, in 2002, after attending a game be ...

(born 1996) - footballer

Other

André Vansteenberghe André Vansteenberghe (16 April 1906 - 6 November 1984) was a general medical practitioner and a leading member of the French Resistance in southern France during World War II. Biography He was born in Orléans. His father was a clerk in t ...

(1906-1984) - physician and member of French resistance *

Alice Vansteenberghe Alice Vansteenberghe (née Joly; 18 February 1908 - 9 February 1991) was a medical practitioner and a member of the French Resistance in World War II. In 1944, she was captured and tortured by the so-called "Butcher of Lyon", Klaus Barbie. She ...

(1908-1991) - physician and member of French resistance * Sami Khiyami (born 1948) - Syrian engineer and diplomat *

Yasmine Motarjemi Yasmine Motarjemi (born 1955) is a food safety specialist and whistleblower. Biography Motarjemi studied chemistry and biology at the Claude-Bernard University in Lyon and food industry techniques at the University of Montpellier, before doing Ph ...

(born 1955) - food safety specialist *

Marine Lorphelin Marine Lorphelin (born 16 March 1993) is a French model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss France 2013 on 8 December 2012, representing the region of Burgundy and then represented France at Miss World 2013 and placed 1st runner up ...

(born 1993) - model and beauty pageant title holder

References

* Nataly Mermet, ''Équation : 40 ans d'innovation à l'Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1'', Glénat, 2011.

External links

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