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TU Dresden´s Research Profile

As a university of technology, TU Dresden covers a broad scientific spectrum. It is internationally renowned for its research and provides excellent conditions for pioneering interdisciplinary research projects. Our research, which ranges from ground-breaking fundamental research to application-oriented projects with transfer relevance, is concentrated in five strategic Research Priority Areas (RPAs).

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Innovative and excellent: Research at TU Dresden

Research Priority Areas

Research at TU Dresden focuses on five strategic Research Priority Areas. These represent the currently strongest research fields of our university, which are characterised by a high publication output and third-party funded activities. Five Clusters of Excellence, one Graduate School and various Collaborative Research Centres contribute to the research excellence of TU Dresden.

Excellence

Since 2012, TU Dresden has been one of eleven German Universities of Excellence. With two Clusters of Excellence, the DIGS-BB Graduate School and its Institutional Strategy, TU Dresden was successful in the Excellence Initiative in 2012. In 2018, a further three Clusters of Excellence were approved as part of the successor programme to the Excellence Initiative - the Excellence Strategy.

Research Profile Determining Projects

TU Dresden is characterised by a high volume of third-party funding. Projects that are shaping the profile of TUD play a major part in third-party funded research. These include projects in the framework of the Excellence Initiative, DFG coordinated projects (CRCs, Research Training Groups), as well as major projects of the EU and the federal and local governments.

Research Profile of TU Dresden

TU Dresden is a university with a broad spectrum of degree programmes and a strong focus on the engineering and natural sciences. Research at TU Dresden revolves around five interdisciplinary Research Priority Areas (RPAs):

The Research Priority Areas (RPAs) represent our university’s strongest research fields. The main focus of the RPAs is on the Graduate School DIGS-BB and the Clusters of Excellence CRTD and PoL in Biomedicine and Life Sciences as well as on the Clusters of Excellence cfaed, CeTI and ct.qmat in Microelectronics and Materials Research. In addition, there are numerous research projects such as the Collaborative Research Centres, Graduate Schools and joint projects that shape the profile of TUD and are third-party funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the German federal government and the Länder, the European Union and the industry.

The Directorate Research and Transfer as well as the Project Scouts support TUD scientists through various measures with the realisation of research projects and with the application process.

The key to the exceptional quality of TU Dresden’s research profile is ingrained in the close collaboration with non-university research institutions and Dresden-based cultural institutions as part of the DRESDEN-concept research alliance.

TU Dresden's Graduate School and Clusters of Excellence

DIGS-BB

The Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering (DIGS-BB) was founded in 2006. Since then, it has become a beacon among Germany's international PhD programmes. The spectrum of research topics of the interdisciplinary work groups ranges from the mode of operation of bio-molecular motors, and the development of tissues, to new regenerative therapies in medicine. Currently, approximately 250 early-career scientists are working on their PhD projects in more than 80 research groups.

cfaed

The aim of research at the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) is to explore alternative and complementary technologies for the electronics of the future and to help overcome the foreseeable limits of conventional technology. cfaed scientists pursue an ambitious and globally unique approach. Their views range from innovative new materials, devices and circuits to potential (heterogeneous) overall systems.

CRTD

Goal of the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD) is to explore the capacity for regeneration of the human body and to develop novel regenerative therapies for so far incurable diseases. As the first German research institute, the CRTD puts adult stem cells into the scientific focus. The research areas concentrate on Hematology/Immunology, Diabetes, Neurodegenerative diseases, and Bone regeneration. In addition, CRTD professors train young researchers - in the International Master's Program in Regenerative Biology and Medicine“ and in the international PhD programs of the TU Dresden.

CeTI

The “Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop” (CeTI) of TU Dresden aims to catapult the cooperation between man and machine to new heights. In the future, people should be able to interact in real time with interconnected, automated systems in both the real and virtual worlds. At the Cluster of Excellence CeTI, scientists from the fields of electrical engineering, communication technology, computer science, psychology, neuroscience and medicine are working together with researchers from TU Munich, the German Aerospace Center, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, as well as international scientific institutions, to pursue this goal.

PoL

The central aim of the Cluster of Excellence ’Physics of Life’ is to unite Physics with Biology to identify principles that govern the dynamic organization of living matter. Our ambition is to understand living systems as physical systems where spatiotemporal structure emerges robustly through energy and matter flows. This will broaden the scope of non-equilibrium physics and the physics of living matter, and will unravel new paradigms for understanding life.

ct.qmat

Novel materials with tailored functionalities are the basis for progress in virtually all areas of modern technology. The Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat places emphasis on quantum mechanisms on the atomic scale, which, in conjunction with topological physics and the chemical and physical complexities, reveals hitherto unprecedented properties and phenomena. The cluster unites physicists, chemists, and material scientists in their efforts to understand, control, and apply fundamentally new states of quantum matter in novel materials.

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TU Dresden´s Research Profile

Innovative and excellent: Research at TU Dresden

Research Priority Areas

Excellence

Research Profile Determining Projects

Research Profile of TU Dresden

TU Dresden's Graduate School and Clusters of Excellence

DIGS-BB

cfaed

CRTD

CeTI

PoL

ct.qmat

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Excellence

DRESDEN-concept

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