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Recognized researchers
IFP has embraced two challenges: it is paving the way for life after oil, while pushing ahead with cutting-edge research on exploration and production, refining, petrochemicals, and engines.
More than 1,200 researchers and technicians – specializing in geology, chemistry, powertrains, microbiology, applied mathematics and about 50 other fields of expertise – pool their expertise in our laboratories to rise to those challenges every day.
Highly-qualified staff
The researchers we hire are at the cusp of academic excellence in their field, and we help them go further.
Doctorates
By 2007 figures, our research divisions employ 626 engineers and 421 technicians (out of our total 1,745 staff). We very often hire these engineers at dissertation level (and 46.7% of them hold doctorates).
National accreditation to direct research (HDR)
About 50 of our engineers held HDR accreditations as of end-2006. At this point, however, many of our researchers have acquired the necessary experience and are taking the course to earn their HDR, so that number will rise in the future.
An in-house centre of excellence
We have created an in-house centre of excellence that promotes
a number of our research and academic programs. It is embodied in IFP professor and IFP assistant professor ranks.
A large number of doctoral courses
Doctoral theses are one of the main options we use to spur new ideas and spawn new concepts.
Most of our doctoral researchers work on their dissertations in IFP laboratories, even though a few of them may also do so in academic laboratories.
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