| Head of group: | Prof. Dr. Bernhard Nebel |
| Secretary: | Roswitha Hilden |
| Technical staff: | Uli Jakob |
| Scientific staff: | Michael Brenner |
| Christian Dornhege | |
| Patrick Eyerich | |
| Dr. Malte Helmert | |
| Dr. Alexander Kleiner | |
| Sebastian Kupferschmid | |
| Robert Mattmüller | |
| Gabriele Röger | |
| Dr. Jan-Georg Smaus | |
| Dr. Stefan Wölfl | |
| Dapeng Zhang | |
| Former group members: | Dr. Markus Büttner |
| Dr. Yannis Dimopoulos | |
| Dr. Christoph Dornheim | |
| Mehmet Giritli | |
| Dr. Jens-Steffen Gutmann | |
| Wolfgang Hatzack | |
| Andrea Hemprich | |
| Dr. Jörg Hoffmann | |
| Dr. Jana Koehler | |
| Christian Köhler | |
| Dr. Marco Ragni | |
| Dr. Jochen Renz | |
| Dr. Jussi Rintanen | |
| Alexander Scivos | |
| Dr. Rudolph Triebel | |
| Sebastian Trüg | |
| Dr. Thilo Weigel | |
| Bruno Welsch | |
| Former guest scientists: | Prof. Dr. Sanjiang Li |
| Prof. Dr. Karim Tahboub | |
| Nanda Wijermans | |
| Vittorio Amos Ziparo |