CEMEF does its best to give the most suitable conditions of work to its students. Every year, it invests in computing resources and experimental devices.

CEMEF offers students :

• High quality teaching : 30 scientific staff and over 20 engineers and technicians in 8 research teams.
• Complementary training, providing vital skills for future researchers such as managing projects and teams...
• A direct access to the PC-cluster of CEMEF with 512 cores for any parallel computing.
• First quality analysis and materials characterization device.
• An information centre with access to the library resources of the six Ecole des Mines schools.
• A personal computer with a high speed internet access.
• Attractive living and working conditions, on the French Riviera in the Sophia Antipolis technopark.

CEMEF has earned an international reputation for excellence :

• 28% of 102 students attending CEMEF are foreigners. They come from 15 countries.
• Research teams gather scientists form different backgrounds and nationalities.
  
• Ph.D. students attend international conferences.
• Renowed scientists from all over the world come to CEMEF for sabbatical stays, during which they take part in courses and lectures.
• Our postgraduate programmes, Materials Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Bioplastics, are taught in English.
• Sophia Antipolis is an international scientific Park. Approximatively 25% of its 26 000 workforce are foreigners.