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The Internet of Bio-Nano-Things (IoBNT) Project Meeting took place on October 9–10, 2025, at TU Dresden, as part of the consortium's regular biannual meetings to discuss progress and future directions. Project partners presented updates on their research since the last meeting in Erlangen. From FAU,...

On October 7th and 8th, the joint annual Igel Seminar of the IDC and LMS took place once again, this time in Waischenfeld. Over the course of two days, participants enjoyed a series of engaging presentations by new and current staff members from both chairs. The talks provided valuable insights into...

As part of this year’s Ferienakademie, which took place across several locations in the Sarntal Alps, the IDC hosted its course at the Murrer Hof. The course, titled “Building the Internet of Cells with Synthetic Molecular Communication,” ran from September 21 to October 3, 2025, and was led by Prof...

Prof. Robert Schober gave a talk in the FAU seminar series “Collegium Alexandrinum” on the topic “Natürliche Kommunikationsprozesse nutzbar machen: Synthetische molekulare Kommunikation.” In his talk, he outlined the fundamentals of synthetic molecular communication (MC) and how natural signaling ca...

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Marzieh Najafi, former member of the IDC, has been awarded the ATE Promotionspreis 2025 for her outstanding dissertation. Her research makes significant contributions to the advancement of Free-Space Optical (FSO) communication systems for next-generation wirele...

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...