Main Research

The TU Dresden, the Dresden University of Technology, has gained its excellent reputation above all through achievements in engineering and the natural sciences. But the university offers a wide spectrum of studies not only in those scientific fields, but also in the humanities, the social sciences and in medicine. Key aspects of the TU Dresden research profile are:

• Regenerative medicine and molecular bioengineering
• Material sciences, biomaterials and nanotechnology
• Information technology
• Population, infrastructure, transport
• Water, energy, environment
  

In addition, the TU Dresden continuously proves its research competence in numerous undertakings by the German Research Society and in outside-funded research projects initiated by both the public and the private sector. In the German Excellence Initiative the TU Dresden was to be awarded funding for a graduate school, the "Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering", and a cluster of excellence, namely the cluster "From Cells to Tissues to Therapies".

 

The essential basis for future-oriented and effective university teaching lies in innovative research. The research done at the TU Dresden can be characterised by:

• high quality
• interdisciplinarity
• internationality
• a close relationship between basic and application-oriented research
• focused research areas
  

 

The TU Dresden is partner of the following Competence Centres:

• Silicon-Saxony
• Autoland Sachsen
• Competence Centres for Aerospace Engineering Saxony/ Thuringia e.V. [german only]
• Materials Research Network Dresden (MFD)
• Here you can find further Competence Centres