Pierre & Marie Curie University (UPMC) is one of the largest universities teaching science and medicine in France, and indeed in Europe, with 4000 researchers and teaching academics/researchers, 180 laboratories, and some 30 000 students including 8000 in postgraduate studies. UPMC is based in the Latin Quarter in Paris, with most facilities on a campus of 500 000mІ.

UPMC also has branches in regions outside Paris: 3 oceanological observatories, at Roscoff (Atlantic Ocean), Banyuls and Villefranche-sur-Mer (Mediterranean Sea). Medicine: 2 medical teaching and research units in Paris teaching hospitals [CHUs]: Saint-Antoine and Pitie-Salpetriere. Partnerships with a number of hospitals and health care centers. The different campuses are part of a complete renovation program.

• Laboratoire de physique des plasmas (LPP) - UMR 7648, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie
• Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée, Université Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris VI
• Laboratoire de Statistique Théorique et Appliquée, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI
• Laboratoire d'Optique Physique, Université Pierre & Marie Curie
• Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Université Pierre & Marie Curie