The University of Lille (, abbreviated as ULille, UDL or univ-lille) is a French

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based in

Lille Lille (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders. Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in F ...

Hauts-de-France Hauts-de-France (; ; ), also referred to in English as Upper France, is the northernmost region of France, created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. Its prefecture is Lille. ...

. It has its origins in the

University of Douai The University of Douai (; ) was a historic university in Douai, France. With a medieval tradition of scholarly activity in the city, the university was established in 1559, and lectures began in 1562. It ceased operations from 1795 to 1808. In ...

(1559), and resulted from the merger of three universities – Lille 1 University of Science and Technology,

Lille 2 University of Health and Law The Lille 2 University of Health and Law () was a French university for health, sports, management and law. It was located in Lille and was part of the Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) Lille Nord de France. The University of Li ...

, and Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III in 2018. With more than 80,000 students, it is one of the largest universities in France and one of the largest

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universities in the world. Since 2017, the university has been funded as one of the French universities of excellence. It benefits from an endowment of 500 million euros to accelerate its strategy in education, research, international development and outreach. With 66 research labs, 350 PhD theses supported per year and 3,000 scientific publications each year, it is well represented in the research community; it collaborates with many organizations ( Pasteur Institute of Lille, CHU Lille University Hospital,

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

INSERM The (Inserm, ) is the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research. History and organisation Inserm was created in 1964 as a successor to the French National Institute of Health. Inserm is the only public research institution ...

, INRA,

INRIA The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics. It was created under the name French Institute for Research in Comp ...

etc.) and schools (

École Centrale de Lille École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * Éco ...

, École des Mines-Télécom de Lille-Douai (IMT Lille Douai), Sciences Po Lille etc.). Until 2019, the university was the main component of the Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) Lille Nord de France. It still operates the European Doctoral College, which federates universities and other

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institutes in the

region.

Schools and divisions

The University of Lille has 15 Schools and Divisions, which are spread into six major domains: *

Arts The arts or creative arts are a vast range of human practices involving creativity, creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation. The arts encompass diverse and plural modes of thought, deeds, and existence in an extensive ...

Literature Literature is any collection of Writing, written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, Play (theatre), plays, and poetry, poems. It includes both print and Electroni ...

, and

Language Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning, both in spoken and signed language, signed forms, and may also be conveyed through writing syste ...

s; *

Law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the ar ...

Economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...

, and

Management Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or a Government agency, government bodies through business administration, Nonprofit studies, nonprofit management, or the political s ...

; *

Health Health has a variety of definitions, which have been used for different purposes over time. In general, it refers to physical and emotional well-being, especially that associated with normal functioning of the human body, absent of disease, p ...

; *

Humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including Philosophy, certain fundamental questions asked by humans. During the Renaissance, the term "humanities" referred to the study of classical literature a ...

and

Social science Social science (often rendered in the plural as the social sciences) is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among members within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the ...

s; *

Sport Sport is a physical activity or game, often Competition, competitive and organization, organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The numbe ...

s; *

Science Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

and

Technology Technology is the application of Conceptual model, conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. The word ''technology'' can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, including both tangible too ...

. The University of Lille officially has five main university campuses, located in different cities of the

Métropole européenne de Lille The Métropole Européenne de Lille (, MEL; ) is the , an intercommunal structure, composed by a network of big cities ( Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Armentières etc.) whose major city is the city of Lille. It is located in ...

.It also includes campuses in

Arras Arras ( , ; ; historical ) is the prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department, which forms part of the region of Hauts-de-France; before the reorganization of 2014 it was in Nord-Pas-de-Calais. The historic centre of the Artois region, with a ...

Gravelines Gravelines ( , ; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Nord (French department), Nord departments of France, department in Northern France. It lies at the mouth of the river Aa (France), Aa southwest of Dunkirk, France, Dunkirk. It was form ...

Valenciennes Valenciennes (, also , , ; ; or ; ) is a communes of France, commune in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department, Hauts-de-France, France. It lies on the Scheldt () river. Although the city and region experienced ...

Outreau Outreau (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department in the Hauts-de-France region of France west of Boulogne. The river Liane forms the eastern border of the commune with Boulogne. History Outrea ...

and

Wimereux Wimereux (; ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France north of Boulogne-sur-Mer, on the banks of the small river Wimereux. The river Slack forms the northern border of the commune and the Englis ...

Campus Cité Scientifique

It is the university campus dedicated to Science and Technology and located in the

Villeneuve-d'Ascq Villeneuve-d'Ascq (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department in northern France. With more than 60,000 inhabitants and 50,000 students, it is one of the main cities of the Métro ...

technopole. The campus has 150 hectares and a hundred buildings, and the vast majority of places is occupied by the Departments of the Faculty of Science and Technology (Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Electronics/Electrical Engineering/Automation (EEA), Mechanics, Earth Science). There are also several engineering schools ( Ecole Centrale de Lille,

École nationale supérieure de chimie de Lille The École nationale supérieure de chimie de Lille (ENSCL or Chimie Lille) was founded in 1894 as the Institut de chimie de Lille. It is part of the Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) Lille Nord de France. It is located on the s ...

, École des Mines-Télécom de Lille-Douai (IMT Lille Douai) etc.) and many research laboratories (

etc.). The buildings are spread around the "LILLIAD Learning Center Innovation" (the ultra modern scientific library of the University of Lille with exhibition spaces and conference rooms); and the campus is attached to the European Science Park of "Haute-Borne". * Faculty of Science and Technology * Faculty of Economics, Social Sciences and Geographical Studies (FASEST) * Polytech Lille (engineering school) * Institute of Technology

Campus Santé

It is the campus dedicated to Health and located between the cities of

(South) and Loos; it is the largest university hospital complex in Europe spread over nearly 350 hectares. The Faculties, Institutes and Departments of the university share the premises with the CHU Lille University Hospital and also with the companies and laboratories of "Eurasanté". *

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* Faculty of Pharmacy * Faculty of Dental Surgery * Faculty of Engineering and Health Management ( ILIS)

Campus Pont de Bois

It is the campus dedicated to Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts, Literature and Languages. It is located in

. * Faculty of Humanities (FHUMA) * Faculty of Languages, Cultures and Societies (FLCS) * Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences (PSYSEF) * School of Architecture and Landscape of Lille * Institute for Musicians Intervening in Schools (CFMI)

Campus Lille-Ronchin

This campus is spread between Lille city centre, the district of Moulins in Lille, and the neighboring commune of Ronchin. It is dedicated to Law, Management, Journalism and Sports. It includes the University's headquarters, located in the Lille-Center district, 42 rue Paul Duez. * Faculty of Sport Sciences and Physical Education (STAPS) * Faculty of Law; Political and Social Sciences * Sciences Po Lille *

École supérieure de journalisme de Lille The École supérieure de journalisme de Lille (, ''Superior School of Journalism of Lille'', abbr. ESJ Lille) is a private non-profit institution of higher education, a French ''Grande École'' in Lille dedicated to journalism and related studies ...

* Institute of Business Administration ( IAE Lille) (Old Town of

and Moulins)

Campus Roubaix - Tourcoing

This campus includes several educational sites spread over the close communes of

Roubaix Roubaix ( , ; ; ; ) is a city in northern France, located in the Lille metropolitan area on the Belgian border. It is a historically mono-industrial Communes of France, commune in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, depar ...

and

Tourcoing Tourcoing (; ; ; ) is a city in northern France on the Belgian border. It is designated municipally as a commune within the department of Nord. Located to the north-northeast of Lille, adjacent to Roubaix, Tourcoing is the chef-lieu of two ca ...

, municipalities of the European Metropolis of Lille. * Institute of Marketing and Distribution Management (IMMD) * UFR of Applied Foreign Languages (LEA) * Institute of Technology (Tourcoing and Roubaix) * École nationale supérieure des arts et industries textiles

Research

The University of Lille is a member of the CURIF: Coordination of French research-intensive universities. CURIF brings together the most important French universities in terms of research.

Notable faculty and alumni

Several former professor or researchers from the University of Lille obtained the

gold medal, the highest scientific distinction in

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(1954),

Raoul Blanchard Raoul Blanchard (4 September 1877 – 24 March 1965) was a French geographer. He taught at the University of Grenoble from 1906 and devoted most of his research to Alpine and Canadian geography. Early life The son of an inspector of the Depart ...

(1960), Paul Pascal (1966), Georges Chaudron (1969),

Henri Cartan Henri Paul Cartan (; 8 July 1904 – 13 August 2008) was a French mathematician who made substantial contributions to algebraic topology. He was the son of the mathematician Élie Cartan, nephew of mathematician Anna Cartan, oldest brother of c ...

(1976),

Jacques Le Goff Jacques Le Goff (; 1 January 1924 – 1 April 2014) was a French historian and prolific author specializing in the Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries. Le Goff championed the Annales School movement, which emphasizes long-term ...

(1991),

Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu (, ; ; ; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influ ...

(1993).

René Cassin René Samuel Cassin (5 October 1887 – 20 February 1976) was a French jurist known for co-authoring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Born in Bayonne, Cassin served as a soldier in the First W ...

won the

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in 1968.

Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, Fermentation, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the la ...

was the first dean of the science faculty.

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, who holds two doctorates in mathematics from the University of Lille and the

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University, was rector of

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from 2005 to 2008, then Prime Minister from 2008 to 2013, before being elected President of the

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in February 2016. Notable faculty, staff and alumni in alphabetical order: * Charles Barrois (1851–1939), professor, geologist. *

Joseph Boussinesq Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (; 13 March 1842 – 19 February 1929) was a French mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat. Biography From 1872 to 1886, he was appoin ...

(1842–1929), professor, mathematician, fluid mechanics specialist. *

Albert Calmette Léon Charles Albert Calmette ForMemRS (; 12 July 1863 – 29 October 1933) was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, and an important officer of the Pasteur Institute. He co-discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, an attenuat ...

(1863–1933), co-inventor of the BCG vaccine. *

Albert Châtelet Albert Châtelet (24 October 1883 – 30 June 1960) was a French politician and mathematician. Biography Châtelet was a student at the École normale supérieure (Paris) from 1905 to 1908, succeeding to the Agrégation (a highly selective comp ...

(1883–1960), professor, mathematician, politician. * Louis Chauvel (1967–), professor, sociologist. * Marc-Philippe Daubresse (1953–), mayor, member of parliament, French Minister for Youth and Active Solidarities. *

Jean Théodore Delacour Jean Théodore Delacour (26 September 1890 – 5 November 1985) was a French ornithologist and aviculturist. He later became American. He was renowned for not only discovering but also rearing some of the rarest birds in the world. He establishe ...

(1890–1985), doctor, ornithologist. *

Louis Dollo Louis Antoine Marie Joseph Dollo (; 7 December 1857 – 19 April 1931) was a Belgian palaeontologist, known for his work on dinosaurs. He also posited that evolution is not reversible, known as Dollo's law. Together with the Austrian Othenio Ab ...

(1857–1931), paleontologist. * Marc Drillech, sociologist«Le boycott»: «Une décision individuelle, relayée par les médias»
/ref> and President of universities. * Claude Dubar (1945–2015), professor, sociology. * Paul Dubreil (1904–1994), mathematician. *

Joel Ferri Joel Ferri (born 10 August 1959) is a French stomatologist, oral and maxillofacial surgeon, academic and author. He is the chairman and head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Lille Medical School. Ferri is most known ...

(1959–), Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, academic and author. * Roger Gabillard (1926–2012), professor, co-inventor of Véhicule Automatique Léger VAL (driverless metro). *

Alfred Mathieu Giard Alfred Mathieu Giard (8 August 1846 – 8 August 1908) was a French zoologist born in Valenciennes. He served as a professor of zoology at the Faculty of Sciences in Lille. He specialized in parasitology and the genus ''Giardia'' was named after hi ...

(1846–1908), zoologist and politician. *

Étienne Gilson Étienne Henri Gilson (; 13 June 1884 – 19 September 1978) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy. A scholar of medieval philosophy, he originally specialised in the thought of Descartes; he also philosophized in the tradition ...

(1884–1978), philosopher, historian and politician. * Henri Gouhier (1898–1994), member of the French Academy. *

Camille Guérin Jean-Marie Camille Guérin (; 22 December 18729 June 1961) was a French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist who, together with Albert Calmette, developed the Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG), a vaccine for immunization against tuber ...

(1872–1961), co-inventor of the BCG vaccine. *

Jean Hélion Jean Hélion (April 21, 1904October 27, 1987) was a French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist. His midcareer rejection of abstraction was followed by nearly five decades as a figurative painter. He w ...

(1904–1987), painter. * Jacky Hénin (1960–), politician. * Victor Henry (1850–1907), linguist. *

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(1903–1985), philosopher, musicologist. * Joseph Kampé de Fériet (1893–1982), professor, physicist, chairman of mechanics from 1930 to 1969. * Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers (1821–1901), professor, anatomiste, biologist, zoologist. *

Claude Auguste Lamy Claude Auguste Lamy (; 15 June 1820 – 20 March 1878) was a French physicist and chemist chemist who discovered the element thallium independently from William Crookes in 1862; as a result, they are considered co-discoverers, although th ...

(1820–1878), professor, chemist, discoverer of the element

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. *

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(1878–1909), pioneering aviator. * Pierre Macherey (1938–), philosopher. *

Szolem Mandelbrojt Szolem Mandelbrojt (10 January 1899 – 23 September 1983) was a Polish-French mathematician who specialized in mathematical analysis. He was a professor at the Collège de France from 1938 to 1972, where he held the Chair of Analytical Mechanics ...

(1899–1983), professor, mathematician. *

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. *

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(1908–1997), Iranian university professor and lifetime principal of the Alborz High School in Tehran. *

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(1863–1933), professor, mathematician. * Henri Padé (1863–1953), professor, mathematician. *

Roger Salengro Roger Henri Charles Salengro (30 May 1890 – 18 November 1936) was a French politician. He achieved fame as Minister of the Interior during the Popular Front government in 1936. He committed suicide a few months after taking office, after bei ...

(1890–1936), minister. * Jean Jacques Thomas (1954–), littérateur, academic, and an author *

Ernest Vessiot Ernest Vessiot (; 8 March 1865 – 17 October 1952) was a French mathematician. He was born in Marseille, France, and died in La Bauche, Savoie, France. He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1884. He was Maître de Conférences at Lille ...

(1865–1952), professor, mathematician.

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Schools and divisions

Campus Cité Scientifique

Campus Santé

Campus Pont de Bois

Campus Lille-Ronchin

Campus Roubaix - Tourcoing

Research

Notable faculty and alumni

See also

References

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