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Written by David Monniaux on 2025-01-25 at 15:49

Let me repeat a few points.

1. There are in France tenured research positions that do not have conditions of citizenship (at CNRS, INSERM, INRIA etc.).

The deadline for 2025 has passed at CNRS and INSERM but is February 10 for INRIA. There will (normally) be positions in 2026 too.

Contact groups affiliated with CNRS, INSERM, INRIA that you would like to join in advance, ideally months before the positions are even announced. For 2026, this means contacting them during the Fall, perhaps even before.

I advise you not to wait for the positions to be announced, and not to try to apply alone, without advice and support from people who know how this works.

2. There are temporary positions (post-docs etc). They are advised by labs in addition to centralized sites.

In addition, a lab may create a postdoc position for you if they have funding even if they did not publish a call. Ask people.

3. Professorships may be more difficult because most of them involve teaching in French. In some cases you may argue that you will learn French and they may manage to assign you in the meantime to international programs taught in English.

In addition professorships have something called "qualification", which needs to be done well in advance.

As usual, if you wait for the positions to be announced, it's too late to deal with "qualification" and so on.

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