Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems

The Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems is a German engineering research institute in Magdeburg, focusing on dynamics. The institute was founded in 1996 and belongs to the Max Planck Society. The founding director was Ernst Dieter Gilles. Currently, the institute has four research department along with several research groups and is housed in a building designed by Henn GmbH.

The institute currently consists of the following four departments:
 * Bioprocess Engineering (headed by Udo Reichl)
 * Computational Methods in Systems and Control Theory (headed by Peter Benner)
 * Physical and Chemical Foundations of Process Engineering (headed by Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern)
 * Process Systems Engineering (headed by Kai Sundmacher)