The participating institutions in the BiGmax project are:
- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin
- Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg
- Max Planck Institute for Iron Research, Düsseldorf
- Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden
- Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken
- Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg
- Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart
- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz
- Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam