Facts and Figures
Foundation and constitution
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 2024
Staff
Employees: 978
Professors: 116
Scientific staff: 657
Non-scientific employees: 212
Academics
Students: 3669
Study programs: 27
Doctoral students: 553
Doctorates (average per year): 192
Funding
Total volume (2023): 49.96 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
FOR 3013
SPP 2389 - Emergent Functions of Bacterial Multicellularity
ERC Consolidator Grant: INTERACT
Information technologies and Microelectronics:
Cluster of Excellence "Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop" (CeTI)
Research cluster Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden" (cfaed)
Dresden Center for Computational Materials Science (DCMS)
GRK 2767 Research Training Group: Supracolloidal Structures
FOR 3013
ERC Synergy Grant: POCOCOP
ERC Consolidator Grant: SLOWTONICS
Reinhart Koselleck Project: "Crystalline organic thin-film components", Prof. Karl Leo
Material Science and Engineering
Cluster of Excellence Complexity and topology in quantum materials (ct.qmat)
Dresden Center for Computational Materials Science (DCMS)
CRC 1415 "Chemistry of Synthetic Two-Dimensional Materials"
CRC 1143 "Correlated Magnetism: From Frustration to Topology"
PCL - Planar Carbon Lattices (RTG 2861)
Supracolloidal Structures: From Materials to Optical and Electronic Components (RTG 2767)
FOR 3013
Priority Program 2244: 2D Materials – Physics of van der Waals [hetero]structures
Reinhart Koselleck Project: "Long-range magnetic order in metal-free materials", Prof. Thomas Heine
ERC Proof of Concept: DYNALIP
ERC Synergy Grant: 2DPolyMembrane
ERC Consolidator Grant: T-Higgs
ERC Advanced Grant: IONOLOGIC
ERC Starting Grant: BattSkin
ERC Starting Grant: PhotoMat
Energy, Mobility and Environment
Reinhart Koselleck Project: Blueprint for modern sustainable phosphorus chemistry, Prof. Jan J. Weigand
Reinhart Koselleck Project: Strongly driven nonlinear network dynamics, Prof. Marc Timme