At Mines Saint-Étienne, research is guided by a simple ambition: understand, design, and transform. It combines scientific excellence, interdisciplinarity, and partnerships to produce knowledge, innovate, and support the major ecological, digital, industrial, and societal transitions.
In this section, you will find an entry point to our centers, our units, our infrastructure, our publications, and our collaboration opportunities — as well as how research informs Academics (Master’s, PhD, projects, internships).
Key Indicators
Mines Saint-Étienne’s research dynamic is reflected in key indicators that demonstrate the scope of scientific activity, partnership vitality, and international reach.
Research organized into clusters, at the intersection of disciplines
The School structures its activities around five centers. Each integrates research, Academics, and partnerships, relying on departments with complementary expertise.
- Centre for Biomedical and Healthcare Engineering (CIS): health, biomechanics, biomaterials, AI in healthcare, healthcare systems
- Centre of Microelectronics in Provence (CMP): microelectronics, flexible electronics, bioelectronics, security, IoT
- Henri Fayol Institute: industrial/digital/ecological transformations, data/AI, industrial engineering, environment, responsible management
- Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering (SMS): materials, mechanics, processes, in-service performance, durability
- Centre for Chemical Engineering (SPIN): process engineering, heterogeneous systems, instrumentation, energy, surface geosciences
Explore our units and infrastructure
Within the centers, activities are carried out in research units (UMR/UR/associated teams) and rely on technological platforms and scientific environments (experimentation, characterization, simulation, prototyping, validation), open to academic and industrial collaborations.
Academics through Research: learning through laboratory engagement
Research is also a way of learning: developing a scientific approach, reasoning rigorously, producing verifiable results, and communicating them. This approach is implemented through:
- Master’s programs (expertise, projects, thesis/internship);
- PhD programs (supervised original research, international and industry exposure);
- postdoctoral positions, hosting visiting researchers, as well as student internships and projects affiliated with the teams.
Publish, Share, Contribute
Scientific output is central to the School’s mission: articles, conferences, books, reports, and theses. Mines Saint-Étienne is committed to the broad dissemination of results and the open sharing of knowledge.
Collaborate: partnerships and impactful research
Mines Saint-Étienne develops academic and industrial partnerships to foster concrete solutions, conduct relevant-scale experimentation, and transfer knowledge to economic and public stakeholders. Collaborations notably cover energy, the industry of the future, health, AI/cybersecurity, microelectronics, materials, and the environment.
The School is also a member of the Institut Carnot M.I.N.E.S, a structuring framework for partnership research.
Scientific Recognition
Mines Saint-Étienne researchers are regularly recognized (awards, grants, distinctions), demonstrating the quality and impact of their work.
Research News
Contact
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