Cluster of Excellence
Physics of Life

The Dynamic Organization of Living Matter

Impact

13 New professors and group leaders for PoL

46 % Women
70 % International

New PoL Core Facilities

1,506 Peer-reviewed articles*

* published by PoL PIs between January 2019 (the start date of PoL) and August 2025

10 PoL Programs
21 Scientific Events
39 Joint PhD Students and Postdocs
34 Collaborative Grants

Our purpose

Discover new paradigms for understanding life and deepen our knowledge of living biological matter

We aim to elucidate the laws of physics that underlie the dynamic spatiotemporal organization of life into molecules, cells and tissues. Our focus is to bring fundamental physics to biology for the purpose of understanding and solving biological questions.

Our research is enabled by merging theory and experiment and driven by a sparkling collaborative atmosphere in Dresden between University and non-University research laboratories.