Who we are?

The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) is an independent German research center in the field of energy, health, and matter. We focus on answering the following questions:

• How can energy and resources be utilized in an efficient, safe, and sustainable way?
• How can malignant tumors be more precisely visualized, characterized, and more effectively treated?
• How do matter and materials behave under the influence of strong fields and in smallest dimensions?

To address these challenges, HZDR operates large-scale research facilities that are also accessible to visiting researchers, including the Ion Beam Center, the Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory, and the ELBE Center for High-Power Radiation Sources.

HZDR is a member of the Helmholtz Association and has six sites (Dresden, Freiberg, Görlitz, Grenoble, Leipzig, Schenefeld near Hamburg) with almost 1,500 members of staff, of whom about 680 are scientists, including 200 Ph.D. candidates.

A key part of HZDR’s research activities is resource technology, which is the focus of the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg (HIF). The HIF develops innovative technologies to enable the efficient and environmentally friendly extraction and recycling of mineral and metal-containing raw materials, contributing to a sustainable Circular Economy. It collaborates closely with TU Bergakademie Freiberg and is a founding core member of the European EIT RawMaterials partnership, playing a decisive role in its establishment.

Ambition Statement

As part of the HZDR, HIF focuses on the development of statistical tools to optimise sampling strategies and sampling methods in the DeepBEAT project. This includes the design of sampling schemes for surface media at all three test sites, the testing of new approaches for (compositional) calibration of analytical instruments, and the analysis of geochemical data using compositional data analysis frameworks. All these activities will be an integral part of 2D and 3D modelling. As the project leader, HZDR/HIF aims to bring together partners from different fields and disciplines to generate new inventions.

Specific technologies related to project

• statistical framework of compositional data analysis (CoDa)
• data fusion
• handling surface media