Facts and figures

Staff

8960

9780

10,327

Average age in years

40.0

39.5

40.0

Total scientific staff

6741

7345

6601

Scientific staff in institutes and facilities

5086

5480

5814

Payroll in euros

591,965,602

648,393,242

715,785,258

Electricity (consumed) MWh

70,038

67,314

72,843

Electricity (generated) MWh

2104

3954

7753

of which Cogeneration systems

2,089.0

3,963.685

7,737.00

of which Photovoltaic systems

15.328

17.215

15.883

District heating MWh

24,761

20,549

21,661

District cooling MWh

4258

4096

4412

Gas m³

29,290

31,881

43,649

Fuel oil L

8253

4671

2868

Drinking water m³

115,797

N/A

N/A

Waste water m³

114,556

N/A

N/A

Waste (t)

2204

N/A

N/A

of which non-hazardous

2119

N/A

N/A

of which hazardous

86

N/A

N/A

Number of aircraft

9

10

10

Total flying hours (DLR research fleet)

1329

835

900

Litres of kerosene (DLR research fleet)

1,188,458

864,288

632,064

Number of vehicles (research and company vehicles)

106

131

157

of which electric

15

17

21

of which hybrid

4

10

14

of which hydrogen

2

3

6

Fuel in litres (company vehicles)

48,875

32,187

25,764

of which diesel

9327

4917

8195

of which petrol

163

142

452

Business travel (claimed)

61,608

25,985

10,867

Flown kilometres

54,591,521

13,174,431

3,638,793

CO₂ from flights (kg)

8,265,449

1,960,889

539,754

Railway kilometres (Pkm)

13,880,996

N/A

2,012,192

CO₂ from rail travel (kg)

0

0

0

Public transport

11,467,305

Car

46,410,430

Electric car

1,334,987

Cycling

4,709,596

Walking

133,711

Research facilities

177

182

189

Used for internal research

70 %

78 %

73 %

Used for transfer and contract research

30 %

22 %

27 %

Number of institutes/facilities operating research facilitie

24 (out of 40)

28 (out of 40)

32 (out of 40)

Number of sites with facilities

17

20

21

Income from licences

2.4 m €

2.9 m €

3.1 m €

Company spin-offs

5

6

1

Investments in technology transfer projects

6.5 m €

6.5 m €

8.5 m €

New independent technology transfer projects

19

31

29

DLR intellectual property

4.193

3.868

3.811

Number of peer-reviewed publications

3055

2091

2327

Number of peer-reviewed open access publications

1297

1358

1539

Share of open access, percent

54 %

65 %

66 %

Number of ISI-/SCOPUS peer-reviewed journal contributions

1218

1410

1453

Number of ISI-/SCOPUS peer-reviewed open access journal contributions

656

1039

1104

Number of conference contributions

2918

1657

2452

Number of ISI-/SCOPUS conference contributions

285

389

519

Conference contributions (per scientific staff member, institutes and facilities)

0.06

0.07

0.09

Calls to universities

22

25

12

Lectureships taken

456

452

463

Diploma, Masters and Bachelor‘s dissertations

690

528

608

Dissertations

107

124

119

Postdoctoral qualifications

5

1

0