Due to joint appointments, the heads of the institutes and the research area simultaneously hold professorships at the Technische Universität Dresden (Faculties of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Physics as well as Mechanical Science and Engineering).

About 100 PhD students are permanently integrated in the research at the IPF and numerous diploma, master and bachelor theses are worked out and supervised here.

[9] The IPF Dresden was founded on January 1, 1992, emerging from the largest polymer research center of the former GDR,[10] which was at the time already internationally acknowledged.

Since then the IPF Dresden developed into a leading institute in selected topics of polymer science.

In addition to institutional funding the IPF Dresden raises project resources of about 10 Million Euro per year.