Research Opportunities at Chemnitz University of Technology
in the following, you find an overview of the research clusters, (young) researchers groups and trans-faculty competence centers at Chemnitz University of Technology. For further information please click on the respective hyperlinked areas below this box.
- Clusters of Excellence
in research - Collaborative Research Areas
Researchers Groups,
Research Training Groups - Young Researchers
Groups - Interdisciplinary
Competence Centers
and Networks
Young Researchers Groups (Endowed professorships)
- Textile Plastic Composites and Hybrid Compounds
- System Technology an Shift Modules
- Systems Reliability in Electric Mobility and Energy Management
- Mediacomputing

ESF Young Researchers Groups
- "Neue Materialien für Brennstoffzellen - NeMaCell"
- "DYNAMIK - Dynamisches Navigations- und Orientierungssystem für körperlich beeinträchtigte Menschen in Komplexgebäuden"
- "Hochentropielegierungen als Beschichtungswerkstoffe für Oberflächenschutzanwendungen - HEA-SurfProtect"
- "Automatisierte, bauteilkonturnahe Fertigung biobasierter Leichtbau-Sandwich-Strukturen (ecoWing)"
- "GEOSax: Geophysikalische Explorationsmethoden zur Erkundung von Erzvorkommen im Erzgebirge"
- "A Wireless Sensor Network for online Nitrate Monitoring in Agriculture (NitraMon)"
- "SENDA: Sensorgestützte Systeme zur Frühdiagnostik dementieller Alterserkrankungen"
- "Neue umweltschonende Technologie für Faserkeramiken - FiberCer"
- "E-PISA: Energieautarke, drahtlose Piezoelektrische MEMS Sensoren und Aktoren in der Medizintechnik und Industrie 4.0"
- "High tech-Sensorik für die Herausforderung durch den demographischen Wandel in Sachsen (SenseCare)" (completed)
- "SyNErgIt: Synergetische Nutzung von Energie- und Informationstechnik" (completed)
- "Sozial agierende, kognitive Systeme zur Feststellung von Hilfsbedürftigkeit" (completed)
- "AssiSt: Assisted Motion Control in Rehabilitation by Means of Smart Sensor Technology (completed)
- "EcoMobility - Connected E-Mobility" (completed)
Interdisciplinary Competence Centers and Networks
- ATL - Alliance Textile Lightweight Construction
- Center for Integrative Lightweight Technologies (German)
- CITE Chemnitz Initiative Technologies of Electric Mobility
- Cluster of Excellence "Merge Technologies for Multifunctional Lightweight Structures (MERGE)
- Collaborative Research Areas, Researchers Groups, Research Training Groups
- Competence Center Mechanical Engineering Chemnitz/ Saxony
- Innovation Lab Fiber Plastics Composites with Integrated Real Time Condition Monitoring (German)
- Interdisciplinary Competence Center "Virtual Humans"
- Interdisciplinary Center for Driver Assistance Systems (German)
- Interdisciplinary Center for High Performance Computing (German)
- Nano System Integration Network of Excellence
- State Cluster of Excellence "Energy-efficient Product and Process Innovations in Production Engineering" eniPROD
- Subject Area Human Movement Science & Sports Technology (German)