Researchers with long-term contracts and ZAS-scholarship holders:
- Artemis Alexiadou, Muhsina Alleesaib
- Suzi Bartsch, Armin Bassarak, Mechthild Bernhard, Andreas Bittner, Reinhard Blutner
- Cilene Campetela, Núria Bertomeu Castelló, Michael Cijsouw, Marco Coniglio, Philippa Cook, Anna Czypionka
- Assinja Demjjanow, Jakub Dotlačil, Laura Downing, Boštjan Dvořak
- Regine Eckardt
- Ingo Feldhausen, Manuela Friedrich, Nanna Fuhrhop, Yugo Fujii
- Hans-Martin Gärtner, Hans-Dieter Gasde (†), Ljudmila Geist, Christian Geng, Regine Gerhardt, Katrin Goede (†), Michael Grabski, Antony Green, Scott Grimm, Kleanthes Grohmann, Tom Güldemann
- Holden Härtl, Brigitte Haftka (†), Andreas Haida, Tracy Alan Hall, Silke Hamann, Rüdiger Harnisch, Mariam Hartinger, Frank Heinsberg, Thomas Hetmank, Soraya Hosni, Paul Houseman, Anja Hubert
- Peggy Jacob, Gerhard Jäger, Peter Janker, Anna Jessen, Uwe Junghanns
- Elke Kasimir, Annegret Klassert, Ursula Kleinhenz (†), Wladimir Klimonow, Sven Knauth, Sabine Koppetsch, Michail Kotin, Indra Kraft
- Ewald Lang (Gründungsdirektor), Paul Law, Sylvia Löhken
- Claudia Maienborn, Jason Mattausch, Christine Mooshammer, Yukiko Morimoto, Renate Musan, Katrin Mutz
- Antroulla Papakyriakou, Daniel Pape, Cedric Patin, Hans Georg Piroth, Edmund Pohl
- Julia Richling, Kristina Riedel, Nadja Ruhlig
- Joachim Sabel, Christel Sauer, Christiane Schaefer, Antje Schulz, Benjamin Shaer, Frank Sode, Penka Stateva, Renate Steinitz, Patrick Steinkrüger, Barbara Stiebels, Alexandra Strekalova, Anatoli Strigin, Koyka Stoyanova
- Oliver Teuber
- Barbara Unterbeck
- Evdokia Valcheva, Noor van Leusen, Marleen van de Vate
- Melanie Weirich, Chris Wilder, Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel (†)
- Sabine Zerbian, Niina Zhang
