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More than just a title, Excellence is a vital force: born out of curiosity, dedication and teamwork. At TUD Dresden University of Technology, Excellence is a daily practice, embodied by the people on our campus, in our interdisciplinary research and international collaborations. On this page, you are invited to get to know the faces, ideas and stories behind our University of Excellence.

People

The Excellence status has initiated dynamic change and a surge of innovation at TUD. Our university has become more interdisciplinary and international, attracting outstanding researchers from all over the world. With the DRESDEN-concept Science and Innovation Campus, our university serves as a science hub that supports optimal research conditions and attracts the brightest minds. These researchers are united by the vision of using their findings to solve global challenges.

Bright Minds. Excellent Research.

This film gives insight into how researchers at TUD search for knowledge for life. Knowledge from which we all have something to gain. Collaborating closely as a team, they conduct groundbreaking research – the essence of the Dresden Spirit.

Faces of our university

Prof. Koch is in the right part of the photo. He is standing at a railing on which there is an unfolded laptop into which he is looking. In the background, closed external blinds.

Prof. Lars Koch

Prof. Lars Koch is Chair of Media Studies and Modern German Literature. He explores how traditional and digital media depict social conflicts, technical innovations and destructive affects such as fear or hatred. He works across disciplines, including cultural sciences, media studies, social sciences and engineering – from film to theater, from theory to technology. Learn more

Prof. Frank Fitzek

Prof. Frank Fitzek is the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks and Speaker of the Cluster of Excellence Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI), where scientists working in technology, medicine and psychology are teaming up to investigate how humans and machines can work more closely together in the future – for example in medicine, industry or the Internet of Skills. Learn more

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Prof. Stefanie Speidel

Prof. Stefanie Speidel is Professor for Translational Surgical Oncology at the National Center for Tumor Diseases Dresden (NCT/UCC). Since 2015, Dresden has been one of six NCT sites. Their common goal is to advance pioneering clinical cancer research in Germany in the long term and thereby improve treatment outcomes and quality of life for cancer patients. Learn more

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Prof. Otger Campàs

Prof. Otger Campàs is Chair of Tissue Dynamics and Speaker of the Physics of Life (PoL) Cluster of Excellence. In his interdisciplinary research group Physics of Embryonic Self-Organization and Morphogenesis, he investigates the collective interactions between cells and their self-organization during the development of embryonic structures. Learn more

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Prof. Catherina G. Becker

Prof. Catherina G. Becker was appointed Research Group Leader at TU Dresden in 2021, where she holds the Chair of Neural Development and Regeneration at the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD). In 2022, she was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, the most highly endowed international research award in Germany. Learn more

Prof. Wolfgang E. Nagel

Wolfgang E. Nagel holds the Chair of Computer Architecture at the Institute of Computer Engineering and is Director of the Center for Information Services and High-Performance Computing (ZIH). Collaborating closely with his team, he ensures that efficient, highly reliable, secure and stable information infrastructures are available for scientific work. Learn more

Dr. Rita Mateus

Dr. Rita Mateus is a quantitative developmental biologist in a joint project of the Physics of Life (PoL) Cluster of Excellence at TU Dresden and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG). Alongside her research group, she wants to find out how cells coordinate the growth and shape of tissues so precisely that they become fully functional. Learn more

Professor Matthias Vojta researches in the laboratory

Prof. Matthias Vojta

Prof. Matthias Vojta is a theoretical physicist at TU Dresden and speaker for the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat – Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter in Dresden. His team has been successful in developing a laser network as small as a grain of sand that functions as one single laser. This allows the performance of certain microlasers to be increased. Learn more

Teaming up for excellence

How excellence is permeating TU Dresden © TUD

Everywhere at TU Dresden, our professional staff are working with dedication towards implementing the measures for achieving excellence. They foster cutting-edge research by recruiting new professors, advance digitalization, and provide the conditions for research-oriented teaching. These are just three examples of how the university is benefiting from the funding as a University of Excellence. The video provides insights into the projects that are driving TU Dresden's ongoing advancement – with the vision of becoming a top university for the 21st century.

Research

Excellence is the result of innovation. Our videos will introduce you to the core research areas at TU Dresden's five Schools and present outstanding research projects and collaborations. Discover how cutting-edge research is conducted at our university and in interdisciplinary projects.

School of Science: Laying foundations

The School of Science comprises the five faculties of biology, chemistry and food chemistry, mathematics, physics and psychology. Here, our scientists are working to understand the core connections in nature. School of Science

State-of-the-art medicine made in Dresden. Today. For Tomorrow.

The Carl Gustav Carus Faculty of Medicine and the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital have built a solid foundation together and developed Dresden into an attractive location for researchers and students of human medicine and dentistry. Faculty of Medicine

Humanities and Social Sciences: Diversity is our strength

The School of Humanities and Social Sciences is vibrant and varied. This variety is evident in the School’s composition, the courses offered, the wide range of courses and subjects as well as in the many interdisciplinary research projects. The School comprises three faculties: the Faculty of Education, Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies and the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science. School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Civil and Environmental Engineering: Creating a future worth living in

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering consists of the Faculties of Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Friedrich List Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences and Business Administration and Economics. Together, they develop interdisciplinary solutions for the major challenges of our time and for our future world. The School offers a wide range of degree courses and is characterized by interdisciplinary research projects and international projects. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Engineering Sciences: We shape the world

The School of Engineering Sciences is made up of the three Faculties of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Mechanical Science. Our engineers work on big and small technical developments and on current and future challenges, in line with the motto “We shape the world -today and tomorrow.” School of Engineering Sciences

Disruption and Societal Change Center (TUDiSC)

TUDiSC is an excellence measure that brings together projects exploring disruption as a defining feature of societal reality and transformation. In the video, Prof. Lars Koch, as member of the concept group, and Junior Professors Moritz Ingwersen, Nicole Raschke and Melanie Humannthe, as heads of the Transformative Place-Making for Uncertain Futures project, speak on behalf of the many committed researchers in TUDiSC. TUDiSC project

DRESDEN-concept Research Groups

Portuguese scientist Dr. Rita Mateus was recruited as the first DRESDEN-concept Research Group Leader for Dresden in February 2021. Her tenure-track position with the prospect of a professorship is jointly funded by the Physics of Life (PoL) Cluster of Excellence at TU Dresden and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG). Dr. Mateus enriches the Dresden research landscape with her work on organ growth and structural coloration. This short film provides insight into the research group's work.

International TUD

Internationalization at TUD

Watch the video “Excellent Together: TU Dresden as a global University” for an overview of the support services provided as part of the EXU project Expansion of International Collaborations.
More on the internationalization strategy

SprInt prepares you for the world!

The SprInt program is a central language and intercultural training scheme that is part of TU Dresden's internationalization strategy. It is open to all university staff – whether they work in administration, technology or science.
SprInt program

Funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space and the Free State of Saxony under the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments