The LMA is a Research Unit of CNRS (UPR 7051) attached to the Institute of Engineering Sciences and Systems (Insis) and bound by convention, in the 2012-2016 five-year contract in Aix-Marseille University (AMU) and the Ecole Centrale de Marseille (ECM).
It has about 140 people, including 90 permanent staff (researchers, lecturers, engineers, assistant engineers and technicians) and forty doctoral students.