01.01.1992

Foundation of the Institute of Radiochemistry, Forschungszentrum Rossendorf e.V.

01.01.1992–30.09.1993

Acting director: Dr.rer.nat.habil. Gert Bernhard

01.10.1993–31.10.1998

Director of the Institute / Professor of Radiochemistry at the TU Dresden: Prof. Dr. Heino Nitsche
November 1998: Accepted a call for Professor of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Center for Advanced Environmental and Nuclear Studies

January 1994

First Measurements with the "Rossendorf-System of Laser-Induced Spectroscopy"

July 1996

Microbiological Laboratories were fully established

Autumn 1997

Dr. Anett Vahle was awarded the Georg-Helm-Price of the Technische Universität Dresden and the "Doktorandenpreis" of the "Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz"

March 1998

The New Radiochemistry Building went fully in operation according to the license, the handling of 135 nuclides including actinides is permitted

June 1998

The Rossendorf Beamline "ROBL" at ESRF in Grenoble, France, including the Radiochemistry Station, was officially opened

Autumn 1998

Call for Applicants for the position of "Director of the Radiochemistry Institute" and "Professor of Radiochemistry at the TU Dresden"

01.11.1998

Acting director: Dr. rer. nat. habil. Gert Bernhard

30.09.1999

Dr. Bernhard is appointed professor at the Technical University Dresden

01.02.2000–31.03.2002

Director of the institute and university professor for radiochemistry at the TU Dresden: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Thomas Fanghänel

01.04.2002

Acting director: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Frank-Peter Weiß

01.11.2003

New director of the institute: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Gert Bernhard

01.01.2010

Incorporation of the former Institute of Interdisciplinary Isotope Research (IIF e.V.), Leipzig

01.01.2011

The Forschungszentrum Rossendorf (FZD) becomes member of the Helmholtz Association (HGF) and is now named Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. (HZDR)

01.01.2012

New foundation of the Institute of Resource Ecology (IRE) at the HZDR, including the Department of Reactor Safety from the former Institute of Safety Research

01.04.2012–30.09.2013

Acting director: Dr. rer. nat. Vinzenz Brendler

01.10.2013

Director of the institute and university professor for radiochemistry at the TU Dresden: Prof. Dr. habil. Thorsten Stumpf

01.01.2017

The Department of Structural Materials from the Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research joins IRE