Research at the Dresden Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics focuses on questions in particle physics using a wide spectrum of methods ranging from particle accelerators over nuclear and radiation physics up to theoretical phenomenology. Within collaborations and scientific networks, we concentrate on the characterisation of known particles like neutrinos, e.g. at GERDA, and on the search for new Higgs or SUSY particles, e.g. within ATLAS. The technology of high energy physics finds its application in a cooperation of the radiation physics group with the medical research centre OncoRay. There is also a strong local cooperation with the Institute of Radiation Physics at the Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf.

The Dresden Physics Department also houses the Institutes of Applied Physics, of Biophysics, Solid State Physics, for Structural Physics , for Theoretical Physics as well as the professorship for Didactics in Physics.

The lecturers of the Institute organize special training courses in Nuclear and Particle Physics in close connection to the ongoing research activities of our working groups as one out of four possible specializations within the academic courses of the Dresden Physics Program.