Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 (, UCBL) is one of the three

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Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

, France. It is named after the French

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Claude Bernard Claude Bernard (; 12 July 1813 – 10 February 1878) was a French physiologist. I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science". He originated the term ''milieu intérieur'' and the associated c ...

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

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, with other campuses located in Gerland, Rockefeller, and Laennec in the

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. Attached to the university are the Hospices Civils de Lyon, including the 'Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud', which is the largest

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in the

Rhône-Alpes Rhône-Alpes () was an administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it is part of the new region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is located on the eastern border of the country, towards the south. The region was named after the river Rhône a ...

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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,

Napoleon I Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led Military career ...

founded the

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, a national organisation with responsibility for

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from

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through to

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level. This decree created the

Academy of Lyon __NOTOC__ The Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts of Lyon (French: Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon) is a French learned society founded in 1700. Its founders included: * Claude Brossette, lawyer, alderman of Lyons, an ...

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

and the wider region. The LyonTech-la Doua campus located north of

and east of Lyon's

Parc de la Tête d'Or The Parc de la Tête d'or (; English: "Park of the Head of Gold") is the largest urban park in Lyon, France, with an area of approximately . Located in the northern part of its 6th arrondissement of Lyon, 6th arrondissement, it features the Jardi ...

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

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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 Biology is the scientific study of life and living organisms. It is a broad natural science that encompasses a wide range of fields and unifying principles that explain the structure, function, growth, History of life, origin, evolution, and ...

Chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

and

Biochemistry Biochemistry, or biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and biology, biochemistry may be divided into three fields: structural biology, enzymology, a ...

Mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

Physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

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 that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

Computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

Mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

Public health

Medicine Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for patients, managing the Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, ...

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 medication, medicines. It is a miscellaneous science as it ...

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 of ...

Audiology Audiology (from Latin 'to hear'; and from Ancient Greek, Greek branch of learning , ''wikt:-logia, -logia'') is a branch of science that studies hearing, balance, and related disorders. Audiologists treat those with hearing loss and proactivel ...

Occupational therapy Occupational therapy (OT), also known as ergotherapy, is a healthcare profession. Ergotherapy is derived from the Greek wiktionary:ergon, ergon which is allied to work, to act and to be active. Occupational therapy is based on the assumption t ...

Physiotherapy Physical therapy (PT), also known as physiotherapy, is a healthcare profession, as well as the care provided by physical therapists who promote, maintain, or restore health through patient education, physical intervention, disease preventio ...

Speech therapy Speech is the use of the human voice as a medium for language. Spoken language combines vowel and consonant sounds to form units of meaning like words, which belong to a language's lexicon. There are many different intentional speech acts, suc ...

Ophthalmology Ophthalmology (, ) is the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and surgery of eye diseases and disorders. An ophthalmologist is a physician who undergoes subspecialty training in medical and surgical eye care. Following a ...

* 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 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 ...

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 U ...

(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 We ...

(born 1942) – mathematician * Michelle Schatzman (1949–2010) – mathematician *

Jean-Louis Nicolas Jean-Louis Nicolas is a French number theorist. He is the namesake (with Paul Erdős) of the Erdős–Nicolas numbers, and was a frequent co-author of Erdős, who would take over the desk of Nicolas' wife Anne-Marie (also a mathematician) whenev ...

– number theorist * Pierre Auger (born 1953) – bio-mathematician * Fokko du Cloux (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 retired professor of discrete mathematics (with a focus on combinatorics). From 2016 to 2020 he has been the Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics ...

(born 1958) – mathematician * Marta Macho Stadler (born 1962) – Basque mathematician *

Marie-France Sagot Marie-France Sagot is a researcher at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) and responsible for the INRIA European team ERABLE. She is also a member of staff at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1. With a PhD a ...

– 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 earne ...

– 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 Poin ...

(born 1967) – mathematician * Vincent Calvez (born 1981) – mathematician

Medicine

* Antonin Poncet (1849–1913) – surgeon * Jean-Louis Touraine (born 1945) – professor of medicine * Gilles Salles – 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 (1961–2011) – physician and neuroscientist

Notable alumni

Academic

Roger Guillemin Roger Charles Louis Guillemin (; January 11, 1924 – February 21, 2024) was a French-American neuroscientist. He received the National Medal of Science in 1976, and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1977 for ...

, French National Medal of Science in 1976,

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for medicine in 1977 *

Cécile Mourer-Chauviré Cécile Mourer-Chauviré (born 1939) is a French paleontologist specializing in birds of the Eocene and the Oligocene. In her early career, she discovered with her husband the Laang Spean cave site of prehistoric humans in Cambodia. Career Cé ...

(born 1939) – paleontologist * Christian Dumas (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 Francis Clarke may refer to: * Francis Clarke (New South Wales politician) (1857–1939), Australian politician * Francis Grenville Clarke (1879–1955), Australian politician from Victoria * Francis Clarke (mathematician) (born 1948), Canadian ...

(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 Muhammad Baydoun (; 5 February 1952 – 17 May 2022) was a moderate Lebanese politician and served as a member of the Lebanese parliament from 1992 until 2005. He also served as minister of power and energy as recently as 2005. He participated i ...

(1952–2022) – Lebanese mathematician and politician *

Jean Decety Jean Decety is an American–French neuroscientist specializing in developmental neuroscience, affective neuroscience, and social neuroscience. His research focuses on the psychological and neurobiological mechanisms underpinning social cogniti ...

(born 1960) – neuroscientist *

Uwe Rau Uwe Rau is a German physicist who made important contributions to the physics of the photovoltaic device, notably on explaining energy losses in thin-film solar cells and on the use of the reciprocity principle to characterize solar cells by elect ...

– German physicist * Teresa Torres – Chilean paleontologist *

Raphaèle Herbin Raphaèle Herbin is a French applied mathematician; she is known for her work on the finite volume method. Herbin has been a professor at Aix-Marseille University since 1995, and directs the Institut de Mathématiques de Marseille. She earned her ...

– 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 (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 ...

(born 1970) – astrophysicist * Catherine Tallon-Baudry – electrophysiologist * Theodora Hatziioannou – virologist *

Victor Grignard Francois Auguste Victor Grignard (6 May 1871 – 13 December 1935) was a French chemist who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the eponymously named Grignard reagent and Grignard reaction, both of which are important in the formation of ...

– chemist, 1912

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Alexis Carrel Alexis Carrel (; 28 June 1873 – 5 November 1944) was a French surgeon and biologist who spent most of his scientific career in the United States. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturi ...

– surgeon and biologist, 1912

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Sports

Ahmad Ahmad Ahmad Ahmad (born 30 December 1959) is a Malagasy politician and football administrator best known for serving as the 7th president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and vice-president of FIFA from 2017 to 2021. Biography Ahmad ...

(born 1959) – Malagasy football manager and politician *

Louisa Cadamuro Louisa Nécib Cadamuro (; born 23 January 1987) is a French former professional Women's association football, footballer who played for the France women's national football team, France national team. She spent the majority of her career at Olym ...

(born 1967) – professional footballer *

Gwendal Peizerat Gwendal Peizerat (born 21 April 1972) is a French former competitive ice dancer. With Marina Anissina, he is the 2002 Olympic champion, the 1998 Olympic bronze medalist, the 2000 World champion, and a six-time French national champion. Pe ...

(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 (born 1996) – footballer

Other

André Vansteenberghe André Vansteenberghe (16 April 1906 - 6 November 1984) was a Physician, 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 ...

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

Alice Vansteenberghe Alice Vansteenberghe (née Joly; 18 February 1908 – 9 February 1991) was a physician 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 later test ...

(1908–1991) – physician and member of French resistance *

Sami Khiyami Sami Khiyami () is a Syrian diplomat, former Syrian ambassador to London. Background Born on 28 August 1948, Khiyami studied Electrical Engineering at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, and Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, France. An ...

(born 1948) – Syrian engineer and diplomat * Yasmine Motarjemi (born 1955) – food safety specialist *

Marine Lorphelin Marine Lorphelin (born 16 March 1993) is a French model, beauty pageant titleholder and General practitioner who was crowned Miss France 2013 on 8 December 2012, representing the region of Burgundy and then represented France at Miss World 201 ...

(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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