| Total number of staff (2025) | 497 | |
| Thereof | ||
| Scientists | 315 | |
| Technical and Administrative staff | 171 | |
| Apprentices | 11 | |
| In addition | ||
| Scholarship holders | 32 | |
| Doctoral students | 95 | |
| Guest scientists | 81 | |
| Percentage of female academic staff | 32 % | |
| Percentage of female group leaders in science | 18 % |
| Doctoral candidates | 95 | |
| PhD theses completed in 2025 | 35 | |
| Master and Diploma theses completed in 2025 | 9 | |
| Junior Research Groups | 6 | |
| Apprentices | 11 |
| Institutional funding in 2025 (in million EUR) | 36,9 | |
| Third-party funding in 2025 (in million EUR) | 16,9 |
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 ctd.qmat
Part of two Collaborative Research Centres „Correlated Magnetism: From Frustration to Topology“ (SFB 1143) and "Chemistry of synthetic two-dimensional materials" (SFB 1415)
Part of the Cluster of Excellence REC²
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.
