The Lille 1 University of Science and Technology (, USTL) was a French

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located on a dedicated main campus in

Villeneuve d'Ascq Villeneuve-d'Ascq (; ) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. With more than 60,000 inhabitants and 50,000 students, it is one of the main cities of the Métropole Européenne de Lille and the largest in area (27.46 km2) ...

, near

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. ...

- European Metropolis of Lille), with 20,000 full-time students plus 14,500 students in continuing education (2004). 1,310 permanent faculty members plus 1,200 staff and around 140

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 ...

researchers work there in the different University Lille 1 institutes and 43 research labs. University Lille 1 was a member of the European Doctoral College Lille Nord de France, which produces 400 doctorate dissertations every year. The university is ranked in the world top 200 universities in

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by the

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. University Lille 1 was established as Faculty of Science in 1854 in

, although its academic roots extend back to 1559. It later moved to

in 1967. The University focuses on science and technology. Law, business management and medical fields are taught in the independent campus of Université de Lille II, while literature and social sciences are taught as part of the independent campus of Université de Lille III. Altogether, the three university in Lille include more than 70,000 students and are the main parts of the Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) Lille Nord de France. At the beginning of 2018, the three universities (Lille 1, Lille 2, Lille 3) merged to form the

University of Lille The University of Lille (, abbreviated as ULille, UDL or univ-lille) is a French public research university based in Lille, Hauts-de-France. It has its origins in the University of Douai (1559), and resulted from the merger of three universities ...

; the UFRs of Lille 1 become Departments of the new Faculty of Science and Technology.

University Lille 1 campus

The main University Lille 1 campus, referred-to as Cité Scientifique, is located in

in the suburbs of Lille, and covers an area of 1.1 km². USTL also has secondary locations in the

historical city centre,

Sallaumines Sallaumines (; or ''Sallau'') is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France. Administration Sallaumines belongs to the Lens-Liévin intercommunality which consists of 36 communes, with a total population of 250,000 inhabita ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Marine station). University Lille 1 is located on the same Cité Scientifique campus as

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 ...

and Ecole Centrale de Lille; these independent entities have established a number of joint research laboratories with USTL.

University Lille 1 faculties and doctoral college

University Lille 1 faculties include * UFR biology * UFR chemistry * UFR geography * UFR mathematics * UFR physics * UFR economy and social sciences * UFR earth sciences * UFR electronics, electrotechnics, control and computer sciences In addition to standard science curricula, providing bachelor (licence), master and doctorate degrees, University Lille 1 also includes a number of specialized education and research units run by the university, for undergraduate and graduate students: *

Institut d'électronique de microélectronique et de nanotechnologie The Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology or IEMN (''Institut d'électronique de microélectronique et de nanotechnologie'' in French) is a research institute of University of Lille, CNRS and École Centrale de Lille (UMR C ...

(IEMN) Electronics, micro- & nano-technologies *

École polytechnique universitaire de Lille École polytechnique universitaire de Lille (''Polytech Lille'') is a French engineering College created in 1974. It is one of the 204 Colleges accredited by the Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur, Commission des Titres d'Ingénieurs (''CTI''). ...

(Polytech'Lille) Engineering * :fr:TELECOM Lille 1 Telecommunications * :fr:IUP Information systems for business applications * :fr:IUP :fr:GMI Maths & information theory * :fr:IUP Bio-technologies & Bio-industries * :fr:IUP Génie de l'environnement – Environment management * Institut d'Aménagement et d'Urbanisme de Lille (IAUL) Urban engineering *

Institut universitaire de technologie A university technical institute or ''IUT'' () is a type of post-secondary vocational college in France, similar to the ''yrkeshögskolan'' in Sweden. This is a type of educational institution, usually in small and medium-sized towns, that of ...

(IUT "A" de Lille). Undergraduate courses in a variety of technologies University Lille 1 has also its own business management school * Institut d'Administration des Entreprises de Lille (IAE) University Lille 1 participates in the

European Doctoral College Lille Nord-Pas de Calais The University of Lille Doctoral College, formerly the European Doctoral College Lille Nord-de-France, is part of the University of Lille since the dissolution of the Community of Universities and Institutions Lille Nord de France in 2019. It is ...

, which produces 400 doctorate dissertations per year.

History

* 1559: Foundation of 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 ...

, 30 km south of Lille city centre, delivering courses in law and humanities * 1854: Establishment of the Faculty of Sciences in Lille city, reporting to University of Douai,

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 ...

as first dean * 1896: Transfer from the University of Douai to Lille * 1970: Creation of the independent Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille 1 (USTL) on a new campus (Cité Scientifique) in Lille suburb * 2008: Enhanced research cooperation through Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) Lille Nord de France * 2018: The university merged with University of Lille II and Université Lille 3 to form the new

Notable faculty and alumni

Faculty and staff

Faculty and staff in alphabetical order. * Charles Barrois (1851-1939), professor, geologist. *

Émile Borel Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel (; 7 January 1871 – 3 February 1956) was a French people, French mathematician and politician. As a mathematician, he was known for his founding work in the areas of measure theory and probability. Biograp ...

(1871-1956), mathematician and member of parliament. *

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 ...

(1930-2002), lecturer, sociologist. *

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 *

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 ...

(1904-2008), professor, mathematician. *

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. *

Claude Dubar Claude Dubar (11 December 1945 – 29 September 2015) was a French sociologist. Biography After his teaching experience at Beirut, Lebanon in 1974, he joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research and became Docent at the Lille Un ...

(1945-2015), professor, sociology. * Robert Gabillard (1926-2012), professor, co-inventor of éhicule Automatique Léger*

Joseph Kampé de Fériet Marie-Joseph Kampé de Fériet (14 May 1893 – 6 April 1982) was a French mathematician at Université Lille Nord de France from 1919 to 1969. Besides his works on mathematics and fluid mechanics, he directed the ''Institut de mécanique des flui ...

(1893-1982), professor, physicist, chairman of mechanics from 1930 to 1969. *

Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers Félix Joseph Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers (15 May 1821 – 21 July 1901) was a French biologist, anatomist and zoologist born in Montpezat in the department of Lot-et-Garonne. He was a leading authority in the field of malacology. He studied medic ...

(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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. *

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. *

(1822-1895), professor, chemist and microbiologist, first dean of the science faculty. *

Paul Painlevé Paul Painlevé (; 5 December 1863 – 29 October 1933) was a French mathematician and statesman. He served twice as Prime Minister of France, Prime Minister of the French Third Republic, Third Republic: 12 September – 13 November 1917 and 17 A ...

(1863-1933), professor, mathematician. *

Henri Padé Henri Eugène Padé (; 17 December 1863 – 9 July 1953) was a French mathematician, who is now remembered mainly for his development of Padé approximation techniques for functions using rational functions. Education and career Pad ...

(1863-1953), professor, mathematician. *

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.

Alumni

Alumni in alphabetical order. This list includes alumni who are also faculty. * Charles Barrois (1851-1939), professor, geologist. *

Louis Chauvel Louis Chauvel (born 2 November 1967) is a French sociologist, full professor at University of Luxembourg, PhD Université de Lille (1997), Habilitation Sciences Po (2003). He is specialized in social generations, in the analysis of social struc ...

(1967-), professor, sociologist. * Marc-Philippe Daubresse (1953-), mayor, member of parliament,

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Minister for Youth and Active Solidarities. *

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 and President of universities. *

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. *

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. *

Vladimir Jankélévitch Vladimir Jankélévitch (; 31 August 1903 – 6 June 1985) was a French philosopher and musicologist. Biography Jankélévitch was the son of Ukrainian Jewish parents, who had emigrated to France. In 1922 he started studying philosophy at the � ...

(1903-1985), philosopher, musicologist. *

Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi Dr. Mohammad Ali Modjtahedi Gilani (; 23 September 1908 – 1 July 1997) was an Iranian University professor and lifetime principal of the highly prestigious Alborz High School in Tehran, Iran. Founder of Sharif University of Technology (origi ...

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

Faustin-Archange Touadéra Faustin-Archange Touadéra (; born 21 April 1957) is a Central African politician and academic who has been President of the Central African Republic since March 2016. He previously was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from Janu ...

(1957-), professor of mathematics, rector of the

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and

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of the

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References

External links

Université Lille 1 website

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