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Outline of the Master Course
(in parentheses, number of ECTS; starred courses are mandatory)


• ENS de Cachan 
Contact person: Isabelle Ledoux, Professor
e-mail: ledoux@lpqm.ens-cachan.fr

. Fundamentals in Physics (3)
. Fundamentals in Mathematics (3)
. Fundamentals in Chemistry
. Fundamentals in Biology (3)
. Light-matter interactions in molecular media (5)
. Molecular Nanophotonics (5)
. Molecules and Interactions (5)
. Biophotonics: theoretical and practical aspects of fluorescence in Biology (5)
. Biosensors (5)
. Waveguided optics and polymer-based device technology for optical telecommunications (5)
. Microfluidics: fundamentals and applications (2)
. Photonics and microwaves (5)
. Conducting Polymers and OLED's (3)
. Ion Channel Recording (3)
. Nonlinear Optics (3 credits for theoretical courses, 2 for lab work)
. Signal processing (5)
. Cytoskeleton (in French) (5)
. French / English / Spanish Courses (3/3/3)

Each student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in the "fundamentals" courses.
A maximum of 6 credits can be earned by each student in Language courses (French/English/Spanish/Polish)

• University Complutense, Madrid
Contact person : Prof. Mercedes Cano
e-mail : mmcano@quim.ucm.es

• Electric and Magnetic Molecular Materials (3 )*
• X-Ray Diffraction and Solution of Crystal Structures (5 )
• Molecular Materials towards Liquid Crystal (Lc) or Non-Linear Optical Properties (3)*
• Advanced Polymers: Preparation, Characterization and Applications (3)
• Chemical Sensors and Biosensors (7)*
• Organic Molecular Materials (3)
• Applications of Organic Photochemistry (3)*
• Supramolecular Chemistry (3)
• Electron Microscopy and Associated Techniques (4)
• Nanomaterials (4)*
• Biomaterials (4)*

• Wroclaw University of Technology
Contact person : Dr. Katarzyna Matczyszyn
e-mail : katarzyna.matczyszyn@pwr.wroc.pl

• Theoretical modelling of the nonlinear optical properties of molecules and clusters (6)
• Introduction to optical telecommunications (6)
• Nanoscale physics* (6)
• Liquid crystals in photonics (6)
• Molecular electronic materials* (6)
• Micro- and nanophotonics (6)
• Devices, technology and applications (6)
• Monte-Carlo-based modelling of photonic processes in liquid crystals and azo-polymers (6)
• Introduction to quantum information processing and quantum cryptography (6)
• Fluorescence microscopy and imaging in life sciences (6)
• Bioorganic chemistry with elements of biochemistry (6)
• Genetic engineering as a tool for bio-based technology* (6)
• Bioorganic chemistry for photonics (6)
• Methods of structural investigations in physics, chemistry and biology (6)

• University of Wroclaw
Contact person: Prof. Henry Ratajczak
e-mail: hrataj@int.pan.wroc.pl

• Bioinorganic chemistry* (4)
• Spectroscopic techniques* (4)
• Application of electron spectroscopy in studies on the structure of lanthanide compounds and materials (4)
• Computer design methods of new materials on biological importance and others* (4)
• Molecular interactions* (4)
• Photoinduced electron transfer (4)
• Molecular magnetism (4)
• Protein chemistry (4)
• Fluorescence techniques, image analysis (4)
• Fundamentals of molecular spectroscopy (4)

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» Mobility mechanisms

According to the “multidisciplinary training” policy of this Master degree, each student is expected to earn at least 20 theoretical ECTS in each discipline. The number of mandatory ECTS (indicated as starred courses in the “contents” part) to be acquired by all Erasmus Mundus students, is 13 for physics, 12 for chemistry, 14 or 15 for biology (depending on the place chosen by the student in January-May). In order to fulfil the “multidisciplinary training” requirement stated above, students have therefore to earn at least 7 additional units in Physics, 8 in chemistry and 6 (or 5) in biology, to be chosen among the other courses proposed in the frame of this Master.

The student can imprint a more pronounced orientation towards his/her favourite discipline by choosing freely the 30 remaining units required to reach the total number of 90 theoretical units over 2 years. But he/she can also choose these 30 remaining units in equally distributed disciplinary domains.

No more than 6 ECTS acquired from language training will be validated as Erasmus Mundus units, but students are encouraged to attend more foreign language courses.

Each student will have to follow courses in at least two different Institutions. A full semester must be spent in a single Institution. Each mobility period corresponds to one semester, i.e. September-December of the first Academic year (to be spent in Cachan), January-May of the first year (at Wroclaw University or Complutense University), September- February of the second year (to be spent either in Cachan or at WUT), and March-August of the second Year (Microthesis).

The mobility mechanism is summarized in the following table :

The various mobility schemes are therefore the following (second year in italics) :
Cachan – Complutense – Wroclaw University of Technology
Cachan – Complutense – Cachan
Cachan – University of Wroclaw – Cachan
Cachan – University of Wroclaw - Wroclaw University of Technology

The number of credits to be acquired in each period are :

Year 1 : Cachan: 21 to 30 Units (they include at least the 19 mandatory ECTS + a minimum number of 2 additional ECTS to be chosen among the remaining courses, see Table above)

Complutense or University of Wroclaw: 30 to 39 units (depending on the number of units acquired during the first semester)

Year 2 : 30 units in the Institution chosen for this semester.

Microthesis will provide 30 ECTS.

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