Research Training Groups

Research Training Groups are established by universities to promote young researchers. Their key emphasis is on the qualification of doctoral researchers within the framework of a focused research programme and a structured training and supervision strategy.

More information can be found at: http://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/coordinated_programmes/research_training_groups/index.html

Do you intend to establish a Research Training Group? We provide assistance and support during the application phase.

Current DFG Research Training Groups

Interactive Fiber Rubber Composites (RTG 2430)
Spokesman: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Chokri Cherif, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Conducive Design of Cyber-physical Production SystemS (RTG 2323)
Spokesman: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Leon Urbas, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Immunological and Cellular Strategies in Metabolic Disease (IRTG 2251)
Locations: Dresden, London
Spokesman: Prof. Dr. Stefan R. Bornstein, Faculty of Medicine
New construction and strengthening of concrete structures under impact loadings (RTG 2250)
Spokesman: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Viktor Mechtcherine, Faculty of Civil Engineering
Role-based Software Infrastructures for Continuous-Context-Sensitive Systems (RTG 1907)
Spokesman: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Lehner, Faculty of Computer Science
Hydrogel-based Microsystems (RTG 1865)
Spokesman: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerald Gerlach, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
MIMENIMA: micro-, meso- and macroporous nonmetallic materials: Fundamentals and Applications (RTG 1860 of TU Bremen)
Spokesman in Dresden: Prof. Dr. Stefan Odenbach, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering
QuantLA -Quantitative Logics and Automata (RTG 1763)
Locations: Dresden, Leipzig
Spokesman: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Franz Baader, Faculty of Computer Science
Itinerant magnetism and superconductivity in intermetallic compounds (RTG 1621)
Spokesman: Prof. Dr. Hans-Henning Klauß, Faculty of Physics

Current Integrated DFG Research Training Groups

Correlated Magnetism (CRC 1143)
Spokesman: Prof. Dr. Clemens Laubschat and Prof. Dr. Carsten Timm, Faculty of Physics
Volition: Integrated Research Training Unit (VIRTU) (CRC 940)
Spokesmen: Prof. Dr. Alexander Strobel and Prof. Dr. Clemens Kirschbaum, Faculty of Psychology
"Matrixengineering" (CRC/Transregio 67)
Locations: Leipzig, Dresden
Spokeswoman: Prof. Dr. Annette Beck-Sickinger, Universität Leipzig
Spokesman in Dresden: Prof. Dr. Carsten Werner, Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden e.V.

Endowed Research Training Groups (selection)

Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden as part of the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden
a project of TU Dresden and The Schaufler Foundation
Spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Lutz M. Hagen (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science) und Kirsten Vincenz (Historical and Art Collections)
Boysen - TU-Dresden - Graduate School
Graduate School of TU Dresden and Friedrich und Elisabeth Boysen-Stiftung
Spokesmen: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Antonio Hurtado (Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering), Prof. Dr. Jochen Mohr (Faculty of Law) and Prof. Dr. habil. Dominik Möst (Faculty of Business and Econimics)
International Helmholtz Research School for Nanoelectronic Networks (IHRS NANONET)
Initiative of Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) in joint collaboration with TU Dresden, Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden (IPF), Fraunhofer Institute for Nondestructive Testing (IZFP), and the Nanoelectronics Materials Laboratory (NaMLab)
Spokesman: Dr. Artur Erbe (HZDR), Deputy: Prof. Dr. Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering
International Max Planck Research School for Dynamical Processes in Atoms, Molecules and Solids
Spokesman: Prof. Dr. Jan M. Rost, Faculty of Physics
International Max Planck Research School for Chemistry and Physics of Quantum Materials (IMPRS-CPQM)
Spokesman: Prof. Andrew Mackenzie, MPI-CPfS
Max Planck Research School for Cell, Developmental and Systems Biology
Spokesman: Prof. Dr. Wieland B. Huttner, MPI-CBG
Dresden Leibniz Graduate School
Spokesman: Prof. Dr. Marc Wolfram, Faculty of Environmental Sciences
Else Kröner Research Training Group Dresden
Spokesman: Prof. Dr. Andreas Deußen, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus
Graduate Programme for the Interreligious Comparison of Monastic Cultures (ICMC)
Spokesman: Prof. Dr. Gert Melville, Research Centre for the Comparative History of Religious Orders
Future Refrigeration and Compressor Technologies
International Graduate Programme of TU Dresden, Purdue University (USA) and The Schaufler Foundation
Spokesman: Prof. Dr. Ullrich Hesse, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering
International Excellence Graduate School on Emerging Materials and Processes (iEGSEMP Korea)
Korean-German Research Training Group of TU Dresden, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) and Yonsei University
Spokesman: Prof. Dr. Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Resilient Complex Water Networks
International Research Training Group of TU Dresden, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ with their Center of Advanced Water Research (CAWR), Purdue University (USA) and University of Florida (USA)