Facts and figures

Staff

8,960

9,780

10,327

10,685

Average age in years

40.0

39.5

40.0

40.0

Total scientific staff

6,741

7,345

6,601

5,747

Scientific staff in institutes and facilities

5,086

5,480

5,814

4,820

Payroll in euros

591,965,602

648,393,242

715,785,258

763,014,639

Electricity (consumed) MWh

70,038

67,314

72,843

82,038.53

Electricity (generated) MWh

2,104

3,954

7,753

5,600

of which Cogeneration systems

2,089.0

3,963.685

7,737.00

5,581.72

of which Photovoltaic systems

15.328

17.215

15.883

18.207

District heating MWh

24,761

20,549

21,661

19,401.65

District cooling MWh

4,258

4,096

4,412

4,868

Gas m³

29,290

31,881

43,649

38,786

Fuel oil L

8,253

4,671

2,868

2,038

Drinking water m³

115,797

Waste water m³

114,556

Waste (t)

2,204

of which non-hazardous

2,119

of which hazardous

86

Number of aircraft

9

10

10

10

Total flying hours (DLR research fleet)

1,329

835

900

1,349

Litres of kerosene (DLR research fleet)

1,188,458

864,288

632,064

1,204,590

Number of vehicles (research and company vehicles)

106

131

157

170

of which electric

15

17

21

24

of which hybrid

4

10

14

13

of which hydrogen

2

3

6

8

Fuel in litres (company vehicles)

48,875

32,187

25,764

43,511

of which diesel

9,327

4,917

8,195

12,111

of which petrol

163

142

452

814

Trips (total)

61,608

25,985

10,867

28,201

Flown kilometres

54,591,521

13,174,431

3,638,793

27,383,346

CO₂ from flights (kg)

8,265,449

1,960,889

539,754

3,975,520

Railway kilometres (Pkm)

13,880,996

N/A

2,012,192

10,093,995

CO₂ from rail travel (kg)

0

0

0

0

Public transport

11,467,305

21,633,495

Car

46,410,430

41,016,664

Electric car

1,334,987

3,234,058

Cycling

4,709,596

4,825,071

Walking

133,711

172,026

Research facilities

177

182

189

188

Used for internal research

70 %

78 %

73 %

39 %

Used for transfer and contract research

30 %

22 %

27 %

15 %

Number of institutes/facilities operating research facilitie

24

28

32

36

Number of sites with facilities

17

20

21

21

Income from licences

2.4 m €

2.9 m €

3.1 m €

2.42 m €

Company spin-offs

5

6

1

6

Investments in technology transfer projects

6.5 m €

6.5 m €

8.5 m €

New independent technology transfer projects

19

31

29

17

DLR intellectual property

4,193

3,868

3,811

3,727

Number of peer-reviewed publications

3,055

2,091

2,327

2,457

Number of peer-reviewed open access publications

1,297

1,358

1,539

1,727

Share of open access, percent

54 %

65 %

66 %

70 %

Number of ISI-/SCOPUS peer-reviewed journal contributions

1,218

1,410

1,453

1,432

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

656

1,039

1,104

1,221

Number of conference contributions

2,918

1,657

2,452

3,202

Number of ISI-/SCOPUS conference contributions

285

389

519

691

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

0.06

0.07

0.09

0.14

Calls to universities

22

25

12

18

Lectureships taken

456

452

463

489

Diploma, Masters and Bachelor‘s dissertations

690

528

608

628

Dissertations

107

124

119

123

Postdoctoral qualifications

5

1

0

3