The city of Dresden is the capital of the Free State of Saxony. With more than 555,000 inhabitants it is among the largest cities in Germany and it is world renowned for its cultural heritage. Dresden is also a centre of science. More than 15 Helmholtz-, Leibnitz-, Fraunhofer- and Max-Planck institutes, 4 Museums and libraries and 3 universities make up the research alliance “Dresden Concept” headed by the Technische Universität (TU) Dresden. As for student numbers, the TU is one of the top-ten German Universities, it is Germany’s largest engineering school and since 2012 it is one of 11 universities which have been awarded excellence status in the nationwide Exzellenzinitiative. The research strength of TU Dresden shows in various national (No 3 in overall grant income, No 6 in the DFG grant ranking) and international statistics (No 156 in the Times Higher World Universities, No. 79 in the Reuters “Most innovative universites”)