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We are pleased to announce that IDC member Lukas Brand successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on December 19, 2025, thereby earning the degree of Dr.-Ing. In his thesis, 'Modelling and Evaluation of Molecular Communication Systems,' Lukas addressed several key challenges in the emerging re...

Background: In molecular communication (MC), information is transmitted using molecules. Within the human body, natural MC facilitates essential biological processes such as cellular signaling and neuronal communication. Synthetic MC builds upon these natural mechanisms by employing engineered sy...

The IDC was strongly represented at this year’s IEEE GLOBECOM 2025, held in Taipei, Taiwan. Our participation included leadership roles and multiple scientific contributions. GLOBECOM is one of the two flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) and is recognized as a premier in...

Background: Molecular Communication (MC) is an emerging communication paradigm which uses molecules to convey information. MC applies communication engineering principles to bio-medical applications such as targeted drug delivery, health monitoring, and micro-fluidic channel design. In the future, ...

Background: Understanding how signaling molecules move through the human microvasculature is crucial for future biomedical applications of molecular communication (MC), including early cancer detection, targeted drug delivery, and continuous health monitoring. While existing MC channel models prima...

Abstract: As integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) emerges as a key enabler for sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems, efforts to refine its design and optimize its performance have intensified in recent years. Discussions on waveform design for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) ISAC r...

Prof. Dr. Robert Schober has been listed on the "Highly Cited Researchers List 2025". This list, compiled by Clarivate Analytics, includes the world's most influential researchers whose work is frequently cited by their peers. Prof. Schober is one of only two researchers in Germany recognized in the...

Ata Khalili has been awarded a travel grant to attend IEEE Globecom 2025, where he will present his accepted paper entitled "Pinching antenna-enabled ISAC systems: Exploiting look-angle dependence of RCS for target diversity". The conference will be held December 8-12 in Taipei, Taiwan. IEEE Globeco...

On November 11, 2025, the IDC participated in the Zukunftsplausch discussion event “Der vernetzte Mensch – Im Internet der Bio-Nano Dinge”, hosted by the Deutsches Museum Nürnberg and the FAU Competence Center for Interdisciplinary Science Reflection (ZIWIS). Representing the IDC, Prof. Robert Scho...

Topic: The Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT) extends the Internet of Things into the human body, connecting in-body molecular communication (MC) networks with out-of-body electromagnetic (EM) systems. To realize this vision, and enable novel medical applications like continuous in-body health mon...

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...