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Hans Rosenberger represented our chair at the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing (SSP) Workshop 2025, held from June 8–11 in Edinburgh, UK. Hans presented his latest research, co-authored with Johanna Fröhlich, Rodrigo Fischer, former IDC member Ali Bereyhi, and Prof. Ralf Müller, titled "Coding fo...

Maximilian Schäfer gave an invited lecture at the 2025 Summer School of the CoDaS Master's Program in Lisbon, Portugal. The CoDaS program is an international joint master's degree program in communications engineering and data science offered by five European universities. It is an Erasmus Mundus Jo...

Dr.-Ing. Gui Zhou attended the 2025 IEEE 26th International Workshop on Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence in Wireless Communications (IEEE SPAWC 2025), 7-10 July 2025. She presented her work on “Channel Estimation for mmWave Pinching-Antenna Systems” with co-authors Vasilis K. Papanikola...

On June 16, 2025, Dr.-Ing. Gui Zhou, postdoctoral researcher at IDC, was invited by Vasilis K. Papanikolaou to visit the lab of Prof. George Kargiannidis at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. During the visit, Gui delivered a talk titled: “Radar Rainbow Beams for Wideband mmWave Communica...

As part of the HORIZON-MSCA Staff Exchange (SE) program, Dr.-Ing. Gui Zhou visited Durham University on June 3rd, 2025. Both FAU and Durham University are partner institutions in this EU project. During the visit, Dr. Zhou delivered a talk titled “Radar Rainbow Beams for Wideband mmWave Communicatio...

IDC member Dr.-Ing. Gui Zhou has been awarded the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Society Best PhD Dissertation Award 2024 for her doctoral thesis titled: “Transmission Design for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Wireless Systems.” Congratulations! This award recognizes outstanding Ph...

As part of the HORIZON-MSCA Staff Exchange (SE) program, Dr.-Ing. Gui Zhou visited the University of Padova on May 8, 2025. The Mid-Term Meeting of the UNITE project was held in the morning, aiming to assess project progress against initial objectives, address implementation challenges, and engage w...

On 7 June 2025, as part of its annual celebration, Die Junge Akademie welcomed ten young scientists and artists into its ranks as members while simultaneously celebrating its 25th anniversary. One of the newly elected members is IDC researcher Maximilian Schäfer. Die Junge Akademie was founded in 2...

This year, the 2nd Workshop on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communication (WMBMC) took place directly after ICC. The workshop was co-organised by Dr-Ing. Maximilian Schäfer and took place at the University of Montreal on June 12 - 13. Prof. Robert Schober gave an invited talk on our ongoing...

The IDC was strongly represented at this year’s International Conference on Communications (ICC 2025), held in Montreal, Canada. Our participation spanned leadership roles and scientific contributions. ICC is one of two flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society (COMSOC), alongside Glob...

Former IDC member Dr.-Ing. Nikita Shanin has received the best Ph.D. Thesis award at the EuCNC & 6G summit! Congratulations! More than 40 recent Ph.D. graduates submitted their applications this year. The jury composed of professors and industry representatives selected the top five  applicants...

We’re proud to share that our former colleague, Kenneth Mayer, has successfully defended his dissertation on May 12, 2025, earning the degree of Dr.-Ing. In his thesis, "System Design and Signal Processing to Facilitate Health Monitoring via Wearable IoT Devices," Kenneth Mayer tackled key challenge...

As part of the student evaluation of courses in the winter semester 2024/2025, the IDC achieved particularly outstanding results in two courses. The Digital Communications lab, led by Dr.-Ing. Clemens Stierstorfer, Hans Rosenberger, Lukas Brand, Gui Zhou, and Brikena Kaziu achieved second place in t...

Timo Jakumeit has received a travel grant from the IEEE Communications Society to attend the 2nd Workshop on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communication (MBMC) in Montreal, where he will present his research on molecular communications. The funding will help cover travel and accommodation c...

Johanna Fröhlich was awarded the Best Paper Award of the Sustainability Track at the IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) 2025 for her contribution titled "Spicing Up LLMs: the Role of PAPRICA Pruning in Linear Computation Coding". The work addresses the challenge of reducing the computa...

The VDE Young Net organized a trip to Helgoland from April 10 to 12, 2025, which was also attended by Moritz Garkisch from the IDC. The group of 20 early-career professionals and doctoral students met on Thursday morning in Cuxhaven to take the MS Helgoland ferry to the island. In addition to netwo...

On March 31, 2025, the 6G-Valley innovation cluster was officially launched at a kick-off event hosted by FAU and Fraunhofer IIS in Erlangen. The event brought together partners from academia, industry, and government to showcase early contributions to pave the way to 6G, the next generation of mobi...

From April 9–11, 2025, several researchers of the Institute for Digital Communications (IDC) had the pleasure of attending the 9th Workshop on Molecular Communications, held at the University of Catania, Italy. The MolCom workshop serves as platform for interdisciplinary exchange in the field of mol...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has selected eight new Priority Programs (“Schwerpunktprogramm”, SPP) to begin in 2026. One of these programs, “Holistic Design of Molecular Communication Systems”, will be coordinated at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and is led by Prof....

Maximilian Schäfer, postdoctoral researcher at IDC, gave an invited talk at the 2025 6G-life and 6G-RIC Workshop on Post-Shannon Theory and Molecular Communication, held at TU Braunschweig from March 31st to April 4th. He gave an introduction to molecular communication and the Internet of Bio-Nano T...