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As part of the HORIZON-MSCA Doctoral Network Free-space Optical Communication for 6G Aerial-sateLlite networks (FOCAL), IDC researchers participated in the 1st Training School of the project held at Fraunhofer HHI, Berlin for three days, from October 27th to 29th, 2025. FAU is responsible for the Do...

The high quality of research at IDC has been again acknowledged at the 12th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom 2025), held in Chengdu, China, from October 23–25. IDC researchers Bastian Heinlein and Prof. Robert Schober contributed to the poster "Airbor...

Researchers from IDC successfully showcased their latest work at the 12th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom 2025), held in Chengdu, China, from October 23–25. Alongside colleagues from the SyMoCADS consortium, Prof. Robert Schober, Dr. Sebastian Lotter...

Topic: Movable antennas (MAs) are antennas capable of dynamically changing their position and orientation through the use of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). Compared to traditional fixed antenna systems (FAS), MAs introduce additional degrees of freedom that can be exploited to enhance ov...

On October 25, the IDC took part in the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften (LNdW), the region’s bi-annual “Night of Science” event where universities, research institutions, and companies open their doors to the public. As part of the Graduate School Synthetic Molecular Communications Across Differen...

Topic: Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have emerged as a promising technology to provide a cost-effective, energy-efficient, and low-complexity means of enhancing wireless communication performance. However, the increasingly sophisticated hardware designs required for advanced RIS architec...

Topic: Pinching Antenna (PA) systems have recently gained attention as a promising alternative to conventional multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) architectures, offering dynamic spatial reconfigurability with low hardware complexity. By deploying pinching antennas along low-loss waveguides, PA...

Johanna Fröhlich represented the IDC at the NHR Conference 2025, held from September 22–25 in Göttingen, Germany. She gave a contributed talk on her research, titled “Spicing Up LLMs: the Role of PAPRICA Pruning in Linear Computation Coding”. The work addresses the challenge of reducing the computa...

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...