Joseph Fourier University (UJF, french: Université Joseph Fourier, also known as Grenoble I) was a French university situated in the city of

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and focused on the fields of sciences, technologies and health. It is now part of the

Université Grenoble Alpes The Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA, French: meaning "''Grenoble Alps University''") is a public research university in Grenoble, France. Founded in 1339, it is the third largest university in France with about 60,000 students and over 3,000 resea ...

Importance

According to the 2009 ARWU, Joseph Fourier University is the sixth best university in France. Joseph Fourier University is also the fourth best university in Engineering & IT nationally and 115th globally in

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. The origins of this scientific university can be traced all the way back to 1811 when the scientist

Joseph Fourier Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (; ; 21 March 1768 – 16 May 1830) was a French people, French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre and best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series, which eventually developed into Fourier an ...

established a faculty of science in Grenoble. Nowadays, more than 18,000 undergraduate and graduate students participate to the life of this university. More than 2,000 are international or exchange students. Joseph Fourier University is not only famous for its alumni, but also for its commitment to fundamental as well as applied research and innovation. Part of the university is the Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), a leading institution in the field of earth, space and

environmental science Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physics, biology, and geography (including ecology, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geograp ...

Facilities

The main facilities are located on a vast campus east of Grenoble, on the

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of Saint-Martin d'Hères (and partially on that of

Gières Gières () is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. It is part of the Grenoble urban unit (agglomeration). The archaeologist Joseph Chamonard (1866–1936) died in Gières. Grenoble-Universités-Gières station has rail c ...

). This campus is shared with other higher education organizations, see

University of Grenoble The Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA, French: meaning "''Grenoble Alps University''") is a public research university in Grenoble, France. Founded in 1339, it is the third largest university in France with about 60,000 students and over 3,000 resea ...

. The university also has teaching and research installations in the city of Grenoble proper. The university runs many laboratories, many in association with

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, Grenoble-INP and other major institutions. UJF also maintains the

Jardin botanique alpin du Lautaret The Lautaret Alpine Garden (Jardin botanique alpin du Lautaret) (2 hectares) is an alpine botanical garden located at 2100 metres altitude in the Col du Lautaret of the Dauphiné Alps, near Villar-d'Arêne, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur ...

alpine garden on the Lautaret pass, in association with

Education and teaching

Many master's degrees are taught in English, for example : * Master in Chemistry * Master in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology * Master in International Development Studies * Master in Environmental Fluid Mechanics * Master in Systems, Control and Information Technology (MISCIT) * Master of Science in informatics at Grenoble (MOSIG) * Master of Science in Industrial and Applied Mathematics (MSIAM) * Master in Biology * Master Geomechanics, Civil Engineering and Risks A Bachelor Summer Program taught in English with scientific courses as well as French courses is offered from June to mid-July.

Alumni

Alim-Louis Benabid Alim Louis Benabid is a French-Algerian emeritus professor, neurosurgeon and member of the French Academy of Sciences, who has had a global impact in the development of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson's disease and other movement disorde ...

, ''Breakthrough prize,'' Life Science (2015) *

Yves Bréchet Yves Bréchet () (born October 12, 1961) is a physicist, specialist of materials science, former High Commissioner for Atomic Energy of France, current Scientific Director of Saint Gobain, professor (part-time) at Monash University, and a member o ...

, Material Science *

Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli (born 12 May 1954) is a Moroccan Professor of nuclear physics, at the faculty of science within thMohammad V University of Rabat. She won the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science for her work on the Higgs Boson ...

, physicist, member of the "Académie Hassan II des Sciences et Techniques"2015 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards
Arnold Nou, 2 April 2015, WomenOfChina.cn, retrieved 4 April 2015 * Hélène Courtois, astrophysicist *

Charles Elachi Charles Elachi (born April 18, 1947
. ''Cedars Network''. Retrieved on February 20, 2008.) is a ...

, director of the Jet Propulsion Lab (NASA) *

Park Geun-hye Park Geun-hye (; ; often in English ; born 2 February 1952) is a South Korean politician who served as the 11th president of South Korea from 2013 to 2017, until she was impeached and convicted on related corruption charges. Park was the fi ...

, former president of South Korea *

Ariane Mézard Ariane Mézard is a French mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Sorbonne University who works in arithmetic geometry. Education Mézard studied at the École normale supérieure de Lyon from 1992 to 1996. She received her Ph.D. under ...

, mathematician *

Vera Lúcia de Miranda Guarda Vera Lúcia de Miranda Guarda (February 10, 1963 -) is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) chairperson on Water, Women and Development in Brazil. Life and education She was born on February 10, 1963 ...

, human rights activist and Brazilian UNESCO chairperson *

Sakura Pascarelli Sakura Pascarelli is an Italian physicist and the scientific director at the European XFEL. Her research focuses on the study on matter at extreme conditions of pressure, temperature and magnetic fields, in particular using X-ray absorption spect ...

, physicist *

Rammal Rammal Rammal Hassan Rammal ( ar, رمال حسن رمال) (September 30, 1951 – May 31, 1991) was a Lebanese condensed matter physicist. He was born in Doueir, South Lebanon. He lived and went to school in Beirut. He was the top student in his cla ...

, a Lebanese condensed matter physicist.

References

External links

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Joseph Fourier University (Université Joseph Fourier)
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École de Physique des Houches
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