The Laboratoire de mécanique de Lille (LML) is a French research laboratory (UMR CNRS 8107) part of the . More than 200 people work in this laboratory which was created in 1985. It supports academic activities in the following graduate schools : * Arts et Métiers ParisTech (ENSAM) * École centrale de Lille * University of Lille. It supports doctoral researches and hosts PhD doctoral candidates in relationship with the European Doctoral College Lille Nord de France.