Admission requirements and thesis offers

Doctoral students have dual status as an employee and a student. They receive a minimum salary for 3 years and are registered as doctoral students at IMT Atlantique. They are also affiliated with the doctoral college related to their thesis topic and to a research laboratory.

Each year, IMT Atlantique offers a number of selective doctoral contracts, both in France and in dual supervision programs abroad, as well as the possibility of being recruited via European calls for projects (such as LOWCOMOTE).

If you have a research master's degree, an international master's degree, a graduate engineering diploma, or equivalent studies abroad and you are motivated by our specialties, please consult our current thesis offers.

Each year we propose 70-75 thesis offers.

 

Consult our current 44 thesis offers !

 

For more information

Thesis topics starting in 2023

Thesis offers

Mutual representation of remote collaborative augmented environments

  • Guillaume Moreau
  • Cifre PhD in partnership with Orange
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly

Novel high performance bio-electromagnetic solvers for broadband and high fidelity intracranial imaging

  • Adrien Merlini , Francois Rousseau
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly

 

Integration of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces and Machine Learning towards Future 6G Networks

  • Samir Saoudi : samir.saoudi@imt-atlantique.fr
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
Brest

Innovative design strategies for mixed-model assembly lines in the Operator 5,0 era

  • Alexandre Dolgui : alexandre.dolgui@imt-atlantique.fr
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
Nantes

Modeling Management of Digital Twins

  • Antoine Beugnard : antoine.beugnard@imt-atlantique.fr
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
Brest

Worker centric design of flexible mixed model assembly lines

  • Alexandre Dolgui@imt-atlantique.fr
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
Nantes

Vérification des idiomes à base de destructeur dans le langage Rust

  • Remi Douence : remi.douence@imt-atlantique.fr
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
Nantes

Prise en compte de l’environnement et intégration des erreurs de classification dans la conduite AUV pour ATR pour la reconnaissance de cibles

  • Jean Marc Lecaillec : jm.lecaillec@imt-atlantique.fr
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
Brest

IA distribuée sur objets connectés : prédiction de l'intention et optimisation des communications

  • Amer Baghdadi amer.baghdadi@imt-atlantique.fr
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
Brest

Analyse et conception de structures spatiales de tenségrité pour la manipulation interactive.

  • Mathieu Porez : mathieu.porez@imt-atlantique.fr
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
Nantes

Augmented Reality for improving autonomy in dementia

  • Guillaume Moreau: guillaume.moreau@imt-atlantique.fr
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
Brest

Deterministic Networking over 5G and Beyond: An End-to-End Connectivity Perspective for Cyber-Physical Systems

  • Georgios Papadopoulos, Mikael Gidlund
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
Rennes

Data-Driven Simulation and Optimization of Green Supply Chain with Petri Nets

  • Naly Rakoto : naly.rakoto@imt-atlantique.fr
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
Nantes

Anomaly detection in quasi-periodic time series

  • Thierry Chonavel : thierry.chonavel@imt-atlantique.fr
  • PHD with Orange
  • Deadline application:  end of august, 2023.

 

Enhancing Radomes functionalities and active antennas performances for millimeterwave reconfigurable multibeam solutions using additive manufacturing & flex technologies

  • Christian Person
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly

Design of RF sensors using Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence for their use in complex environments

  • Benjamin Potelon
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
Brest

Analyse de cause racine pour des cyberattaques maritimes

  • Yvon Kermarrec : yvon.kermarrec@imt-atlantique.fr
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
Brest

Cybersécurité par la conception des Système-de-Systèmes Maritimes

  • Yvon Kermarrec : yvon.kermarrec@imt-atlantique.fr
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
Brest

Analyse de risques dynamique et continue d’un système complexe : application au domaine naval

  • Yvon Kermarrec : yvon.kermarrec@imt-atlantique.fr
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
Brest

Modeling brain structural and functional connectivity in neurodegenerative diseases

  • Gulia Lioi
  • Deadline application: August 25, 2023

Liquid crystal sensors to monitor pesticides in air

  • Philippe Banet
  • Deadline application: August 25, 2023
Brest

Interoperability and compression for massive and energy-efficient IoT

  • Xavier Lagrange : xavier.lagrange@imt-atlantique.fr
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly

Anisotropie de la production des mésons J/psi dans les collisions Pb-Pb au LHC

  • Gines Martinez : Gines.Martinez@subatech.in2p3.fr
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly

Control-oriented hybrid modeling of coupled multi-carrier energy systems

  • Bruno Lacarrière et Mohamed Tahar Mabrouk
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
Nantes

Design of multibeam antenna for a 3D mmw channel sounder

  • François Gallee
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
  • Application deadline: october 2023
Brest

Design and implementation of a continuous hydrothermal liquefaction reactor tailored to the production of biocrude from a lipid rich microalgae strain

  • Sary Awad
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
Nantes

Measuring the impact of a territorial social innovation for people with disabilities

  • Myriam Legoff
  • Start date for the thesis: October - november 2023
  • Application deadline: September 1, 2023
Brest

Immersive narrative visualisation for understanding autonomous maritime vessels

  • Thierry Duval et Étienne Peillard
  • Start date for the thesis: November 2023
  • Application deadline: September 2023
Brest

Édition et synchronisation du Jumeau Numérique en réalité virtuelle et réalité augmentée pour l’usine du futur

  • Thierry Duval
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
Brest

Améliorer la communication interpersonnelle dans l’usine du futur grâce à la réalité virtuelle et la réalité augmentée

  • Thierry Duval
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
Brest

Communications IoT robustes et sécurisées – Secure and Robust IoT Communications

  • Karine Amis, Frederic Guilloud, Emmanuel Boutillon
  • Thesis funded within the framework of the 5G Priority Research Programs and Equipment (PEPR).
  • Applications accepted until the position is filled and before November 2024.
Brest

Thesis in computer vision on the correction of the 3D digital twin of telecommunication infrastructures

  • Panagiotis Papadakis
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly

Magnon beamforming at the nanoscale

  • Vincent Vlaminck
  • Deadline Application: 27/07/2024

AI-augmented Techniques for Consistency and Validity in Continuous Digital Twin Engineering

  • Hugo Bruneliere, Théo Le Calvar, Massimo Tisi
  • Deadline Application: 12/04/2024
Nantes

Design of advanced beam-forming techniques for simultaneous scanning & communication operating modes antennas for 5G/6G OpenRAN

  • Christian Person
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly

Information Theory for Machine Learning over Compressed Data

  • Elsa Dupraz
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
Brest

Programmable Wireless Protocol Stack

  • Georgios Z. Papadopoulos, Julien Montavont, Guillaume Le Gall , Thomas Noel
  • Applications will be reviewed regularly
Rennes

Méthodologie d’évaluation des scénarios ‘micro-grid’ de transition énergétique des sites industriels d’intérêt publi

  • Bruno Lacarrière
  • Deadline Application: April 30th 2024
Nantes

Hybridation de la 5G-V2X avec d’autres technologies de communication dans le contexte des ITS coopératif

  • Jean-Marie Bonnin
  • Deadline Application: April 30th 2024
Rennes

Proactive service-based resource management for CCAM applications.

  • Jean-Marie Bonnin
  • Deadline Application: April 30th 2024
Rennes