The Chemistry Department is located downtown Paris, along the Seine river, one block away from the French national library, in the Lavoisier and Lamarck brand new buildings on campus.

With more than 500 undergraduate students majoring in chemistry, 70 doctoral candidates and postdoctoral associates, and 90 academics working in three joint laboratories between the university and the CNRS (French national center for scientific research), and one laboratory of The Institute of Earth Physics of Paris (IPGP), the Department is involved in outstanding research and innovative educational programs, in one of the top five french university.