| Total number of staff (2024) | 477 | |
| Thereof | ||
| Scientists | 298 | |
| Technical and Administrative staff | 167 | |
| Apprentices | 12 | |
| In addition | ||
| Scholarship holders | 26 | |
| Doctoral students | 90 | |
| Guest scientists | 81 | |
| Percentage of female academic staff | 33 % | |
| Percentage of female group leaders in science | 26 % |
| Doctoral candidates | 90 | |
| PhD theses completed in 2024 | 24 | |
| Master and Diploma theses completed in 2024 | 9 | |
| Scholarship holders during the year 2024 | 52 | |
| Junior Research Groups | 6 | |
| Apprentices | 12 |
| Institutional funding in 2024 (in million EUR) | 43,1 | |
| Third-party funding in 2024 (in million EUR) | 14,7 |
Total number of ERC Grants 13
Participation in ct.qmat Cluster of Excellence
Coordination of the EU Training Networks BIOREMIA and EIFFEL
Two Leibniz Prize Winners (2009, 2018)
Five Directors appointed on joint professorships with TU Dresden
One endowed W2 professorship with TU Dresden
One W2 professorship appointed with TU Bergakademie Freiberg
One honorary professorship at TU Dresden
One honorary professorship at TU Bergakademie Freiberg
One honorary professorship with HTW Dresden
Part of the Dresden Würzburg Excellence Cluster ct.qmat
Part of two Collaborative Research Centres „Correlated Magnetism: From Frustration to Topology“ (SFB 1143) and "Chemistry of synthetic two-dimensional materials" (SFB 1415)
The IFW Dresden was founded on January 1, 1992 transforming the former Academy Institute to an Institute of the ‘Blaue Liste’. It emerged from the largest materials science center of the former GDR, which was at the time already internationally acknowledged. Since then the IFW developed into a leading institute in selected topics of materials science.
