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The Institut Origines draws on research teams within 20 laboratories and connects around 200 people from Aix-Marseille Université and the CNRS. We also have 5 faculties (university training entities) with around 500 master’s students on programmes attached to our institute and 6 partner doctoral schools in our scope, with around 20 PhD students per year completing their theses in the institute’s disciplines.
Research units
- Centre for theoretical physics (CPT)
- Marseille interdisciplinary centre for nanoscience (CINAM)
- Fresnel institute
- Marseille astrophysics laboratory (LAM)
- Haute Provence Observatory (OHP)
- Physics of ionic and molecular interactions (PIIM)
- Provence institute for microelectronics and nanosciences (IM2NP)
- University institute for industrial thermal systems (IUSTI)
- Computer science and systems laboratory (LIS)
- Institute for radical chemistry (ICR)
Faculties
- Pythéas Institute - Observatory for the sciences of the Universe (OSU Pythéas)
- Faculty of sciences (FS)
- Faculty of arts, letters, languages and humanities (ALLSH)
- Faculty of law and political science
- Marseille polytech
Find out more about the institute
Understanding our DNA
Missions
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Understanding our DNA
Meet our teams
Governance
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