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CIDS: Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Sciences

Catalyst for Innovation and Interdisciplinarity

More than 550 employees from different scientific
fields will work together under one roof in the new
Lehmann Center Office Building (LZB) on issues
related to digitalization, data analytics, AI, knowledge
extraction and transfer, as well as numerous other
software topics.

The establishment of CIDS is an accompanying strategic
measure for many research activities at TU Dresden
and a forward-looking element of the excellence
strategy. CIDS integrates the Department for Informa-
tion Services and High-Performance Computing (ZIH)
TU Dresden has founded the Center for Interdisciplinary with its innovative algorithmic methodological expertise.
Digital Science (CIDS) in order to holistically and ZIH provides excellent high-performance computing
synergetically bring together Dresden’s research – capacity and infrastructure via the energy-efficient and
including research conducted in cooperation with highly secure Lehmann Data Center (LZR), which was
DRESDEN-concept partners – on digitalization for and inaugurated in 2015. The decision to found CIDS has
in all scientific fields. It has been integrated into the been supported by:
structure of TU Dresden as a Central Academic Unit.
― The GWK’s wish to establish one of the national NHR
centers permanently at the ZIH (2020)
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― The BMBF’s wish to establish ScaDS.AI Dresden/
Prof. Wolfgang E. Nagel Leipzig as one of the six national AI competence
Director Department for Information centers (2022)
Services and High Performance
Computing (ZIH) // TU Dresden
Left: Prof. Wolfgang E. Nagel / Image: Robert Gommlich
✉ wolfgang.nagel@tu-dresden.de Right: Design model of new Lehmann Center building / Illustration:
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