First Class Research

Potsdam is a city of science. More than 10,000 of the 160,000 citizens of Potsdam work in scientific institutions of the Brandenburg State capital. In no other city in Germany are there more scientists per capital than in Potsdam.

There are more than 40 scientific institutions located in the region: Max Plank Institute, Frauenhofer Institute, institutions of the Leibniz Society and two institutions of the Helmholtz Society. The Hasso Plattner Institute of Software Systems Engineering (HPI), founded in 1998, is the first and thus far only university institute in Germany that is completely privately financed.

Since 2009 Potsdam is also the location of the IASS - Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, a leading institute for climate research and sustainability studies

Humanities

• Academy of Psychotherapy and Intervention Research
• Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
• Einstein Forum
• Erich Pommer Institute gGmbH of Entertainment Law and Media Management
• IfG.CC – The Institute for eGovernment
• Moses Mendelssohn Center of European Studies
• Center of Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr (ZMSBw)
• Center of Contemporary Historical Research (ZZF)

Geosciences

• Alfred Wegner Institute of Polar and Marine Research
• German Meteorological Service
• GeoResearchCenter (GFZ)
• Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies e. V. (IASS)
• Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research

Biology

• Biotech Campus Potsdam GmbH
• Bundessortenamt
• German Institute of Human Nutrition (DlfE)
• Research Institute Bioactive Polymer Systems (BIOPOS)
• Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering
• Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI
• Institute of Inland Fisheries Potsdam-Sacrow
• Institute of Grain Processing (IGV)
• International Academy of Life Sciences (IALS)
• Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Engineering Potsdam-Bornim e. V. (ATB)
• Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
• PLANT 2030 – Office Plant Research at the MPI-MP

Physics | Chemical Science

• Fraunhofer Research Institution for Polymeric Materials and Composites PYCO
• Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Polymer Research IAP
• Hasso Plattner Institute of IT Systems Engineering (HPI)
• IDM Institute of Thin Film and Microsensoric Technology
• Institute of Biomaterial Science – Helmholtz Center Geesthacht
• Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)
• Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
• Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
• Potsdam Model Basin (SVA)
• STIP – Stirling Technology Institute Potsdam gGmbH