Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
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| established: | 1992 | |
| Scientific director: | Roland Sauerbrey | |
| Administrative director: | Peter Joehnk | |
| staff: | ca. 800 (2010) | |
| budget: | ca. 85 Mio. Euro (2010) | |
| location: | Dresden Dresden Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area.... , Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... |
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| official website: | www.hzdr.de | |
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) is a German research laboratory in Dresden and member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres. While the research center was formerly known as Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (since 1992) the research site dates back as far as 1956, when the "Zentralinstitut für Kernforschung" (national institute for nuclear research) in Eastern Germany was founded.
Research programs
From Matter to MaterialsWith the help of large-scale research equipment, HZDR scientists seek to improve conventional materials and develop new ones. This includes research on novel superconducting and semiconducting materials with the help of extremely high magnetic fields, simulation and optimization of steel casting using magnetic fields, and the development of energy efficient materials for new information and communication technologies.
Cancer research
Cancer research at the HZDR focuses on three major fields: research on new radioactive pharmaceuticals for the diagnosis of cancer, development of imaging methods used in oncology and advancement of the acceleration of particles with laser technologies.
Energy research
HZDR scientists focus on processes in the chemical and metal processing industries, nuclear safety, new technologies for the exploration, extraction and use of raw materials and biocomposite materials.
History
Founded in 1956 the former research center in Rossendorf became part of the German Academy of SciencesGerman Academy of Sciences Berlin
The German Academy of Sciences at Berlin , later renamed Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic was the most important research institution of East Germany.The academy was founded in 1946 by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany to continue the long tradition of the...
. The German-born British physicist Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who in 1950 was convicted of supplying information from the American, British and Canadian atomic bomb research to the USSR during and shortly after World War II...
, who took part in the Manhattan Project
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army...
, was deputy director until 1974.
After the German reunification
German reunification
German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany , and when Berlin reunited into a single city, as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution Article 23. The start of this process is commonly referred by Germans as die...
the "Forschungszentrum Rossendorf" (FZR) was founded. In 2006 the name changed to "Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf", to emphasize the connection to the research infrastructure in the city of Dresden. In 2011 the center became a member of Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.
Staff and research sites
The HZDR has a staff of about 800 persons, working on four different research sites, the headquarters being in Dresden.Departments
- Institute of Ion-Beam Physics and Materials Research
- Dresden High Magnetic Field LaboratoryDresden High Magnetic Field LaboratoryThe Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory in the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf focuses on modern materials research at high magnetic fields. It serves as a research facility for in-house as well as for user projects and provides research opportunities for pulsed magnetic fields up to 90...
- Institute of Radiochemistry
- Institute of Safety Research
- Institute of Radiopharmacy
- Institute of Radiation Physics
- Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology - operated together with Technische Universität Bergakademie FreibergTechnische Universität Bergakademie FreibergThe Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg is a small German University of Technology with about 5000 students in the city of Freiberg, Saxony...
Research facilities
- The superconducting Electron Linear accelerator ELBE (Electron Linac for beams with high Brilliance and low Emittance) delivers multiple secondary beams (FELFree electron laserA free-electron laser, or FEL, is a laser that shares the same optical properties as conventional lasers such as emitting a beam consisting of coherent electromagnetic radiation which can reach high power, but which uses some very different operating principles to form the beam...
, coherent infrared radiation, quasi-monochromatic X-rays, polarized Bremstrahlung, pulsed neutron beams, pulsed mono-energetic positronPositronThe positron or antielectron is the antiparticle or the antimatter counterpart of the electron. The positron has an electric charge of +1e, a spin of ½, and has the same mass as an electron...
s) - 150 TW laser system Dresden Laser Acceleration Source (DRACO)
- ROBL - Rossendorf Beamline at ESRFEuropean Synchrotron Radiation FacilityThe European Synchrotron Radiation Facility is a joint research facility supported by 19 countries situated in Grenoble, France...
in Grenoble/ France - PETPositron emission tomographyPositron emission tomography is nuclear medicine imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or picture of functional processes in the body. The system detects pairs of gamma rays emitted indirectly by a positron-emitting radionuclide , which is introduced into the body on a...
-Center operated together with Technische Universität Dresden and University Hospital Dresden - Thermohydraulic test facility TOPFLOW
- Dresden High Magnetic Field LaboratoryDresden High Magnetic Field LaboratoryThe Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory in the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf focuses on modern materials research at high magnetic fields. It serves as a research facility for in-house as well as for user projects and provides research opportunities for pulsed magnetic fields up to 90...
(pulsed magnetic fields up to 100 teslas and 10 ms) - Ion Beam Center for the application of ion beams in materials research. Plasma and ion sources generate ions of all species at energies between 10 eV and 50 MeV.