ITM Introduction

The Institute of High-Performance Fibre Systems Technology: Medicine, Mobility, Energy, Infrastructure (ITM) is a teaching and research institution within the Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering and the Faculty of Medicine at the TUD Dresden University of Technology and is one of the largest and most high-performing institutes at TU Dresden.

The ITM is particularly recognized as an innovation leader thanks to its interdisciplinary research, and it is a world-leading innovation and training center for the entire value chain of high-performance fiber systems.

Research activities are interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral, and aligned with national and international development trends. As a result, high-performance fiber systems are firmly established as customized, profitable, and forward-looking materials in key industries. To this end, another particularly important focus of the ITM’s activities is the industry-oriented training of outstanding specialists who are ideally qualified for the particularly challenging tasks facing business and science.

The integration of teaching and research is guided by the motto “Learning through research, teaching through research.”