Researchers, inventors, creators and designers – around 80 employees currently work at the fem, including scientists and engineers, laboratory technicians and employees in administrative and general services.

There is also a constantly changing number of trainees, diploma, bachelor's and master's candidates, graduate students and foreign scholars. The fem offers career and study orientation as well as courses for primary school students, where a playful insight into the world of metals is possible. By the way: About 60% of our employees are women – because we emphasize the compatibility of work and family.