In the 3rd quarter of 2019, the Comue Université Paris-Est (Paris-Est University Community of Universities and Institutions) launched a call for candidates in order to recruit foreign visiting professors or researchers for the research units of its member and associate institutions. After consulting the directors of the doctoral schools and the Doctoral Training Council, the President of UPE selected fourteen personalities in accordance with the announced selection criteria.

• reside abroad;
• have a reputation in their field (publications, H index, other indicators of
• scientific recognition, etc.);
• (action n°1) develop relationships with the host research unit and
• bring it added value: scientific challenge, complementary skills,
• provide new knowledge and new innovations, initiate
• sustainable collaboration, response to a European or international call for projects, etc.;
• (action n°2) intervene in the key fields of a doctoral school or one transversal to
• two doctoral schools; be able to reach out to the doctoral student audience and their
• scientific community; the project will specify the dates planned precisely,
• the actual target audience and the content of the teaching provided (pedagogical
• aims, organization, content, pedagogical methods, actual duration, etc.;
• bring original and significant added value to UPE, in line with at least one
• of the following aspects:
  • be part of one of UPE's two thematic clusters: health and society - town, environment and their engineering or on a subject transversal to both clusters
  • fall within the fields of human and social sciences or mathematics and information and communications technology and science (STIC)