Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e. V.

The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) conducts cutting-edge, long-term research in the fields of energy, health and matter. We face up to the great challenges of our time and see it as our task to provide knowledge and technology for the next generations. From this we derive four core points as our mission:

• We research fundamental phenomena of nature. Unique research infrastructures provide insight into processes under extreme conditions. We contribute our know-how to the development of future materials and information technologies as a guarantor for an enlightened and free society.
  
• We contribute to a healthy society with innovative diagnostic and therapeutic methods in cancer research - from the basics in the natural and life sciences to medical applications.
  
• We are helping to shape the transition to a sustainable industry and the transformation of energy systems towards a green society.
• We strengthen Saxony as a business location in Germany through a systemic combination of basic research, innovation, large-scale equipment and transfer, thus ensuring an appropriate standard of living for future generations

We are an open-minded, interdisciplinary, international research center for application-oriented basic research with a modern welcoming culture. To answer scientific questions, the HZDR uses large-scale equipment with unique experimental facilities that are also available to external users. A total of around 1,500 people are employed at the main campus in Dresden and at the Freiberg, Leipzig, Schenefeld (near Hamburg) and Grenoble/France sites.
  
We cooperate with industrial partners and clinics, license technologies to companies or found companies so that our research can be put to use quickly. We also pass on knowledge and expertise through the joint use of our research facilities, the provision of data or consulting services. The “Technology Transfer and Innovation” department brings together all of the Center's key transfer competencies and support services - from patent and innovation management to contract management and technology marketing.