To strengthen the research and cooperation ties with universities, the Max Planck Society appoints university faculty members, who are actively performing cutting edge research, to Max Planck Fellows for a period of five years. During that time Fellows set up their research group activities at the host institute and deepen the ties with indoor research.
From 2010 until August 2020 MPIPKS hosted Prof. Dr. Roland Ketzmerick (TU Dresden) as head of the Max Planck Fellow Group Quantum Chaos and Quantum Dynamics.
Since October 2023, Prof. Dr. Jan Budich (TU Dresden) heads the Max Planck Fellow Group Dissipative Quantum Matter