Facts and Figures

Foundation and constitution

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The School of Science was founded in 2012 as one of five schools at TU Dresden with the aim of strengthening interdisciplinary teaching and research and creating greater financial and strategic scope for the schools and their faculties. The School of Science includes the five faculties of Biology, Chemisty and Food Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Psychology.

Current figures

Version: December 2021

Staff

Employees: 1095
Professors: 108
Scientific staff: 700
Non-scientific employees: 216

Academics

Students: 3653
Study programs: 27
Doctoral students: 1142
Doctorates (average per year): 191

Funding

Total volume (2020): 31.8 million EUR

Research

Research at the School of Science ranges from basics to application-oriented research, is often interdisciplinary, and direceted towards the strategic Research Priority Areas of the TU Dresden:

Health Sciences, Biomedicine & Bioengineering:

Cluster of Excellence „Physics of Life“
CRC 940 (with integrated graduate school)
2 DFG Research Groups (FOR)
SPP 2389
1 ERC Consolidator Grant

Information technologies and Microelectronics:

Cluster of Excellence „CeTI“
Research cluster „cfaed“
Starting in 2022: Research Training Group 2767
FOR 3013
3 ERC Grants

Material Science and Engineering

Cluster of Excellence „ct.qmat“
CRC 1415 and CRC 1143 (with integrated graduate schools)
Starting in 2022: Research Training Group 2767
2 DFG Research Groups
SPP 2244
4 ERC Grants
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions „2-Exciting“