The Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems is a German engineering research institute in Magdeburg, focusing on dynamics.

[1] The institute was founded in 1996 and belongs to the Max Planck Society.

[1] The founding director was Ernst Dieter Gilles.

Currently, the institute has four research department along with several research groups and is housed in a building designed by Henn GmbH.

[2] The institute currently consists of the following four departments: This article about a scientific organization is a stub.