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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...

The research project ERMES, led by Dr. Maximilian Schäfer at IDC, is featured in the latest issue of the Bayerisches Ärzteblatt—the official journal of the Bavarian Medical Association, reaching physicians and healthcare professionals across Bavaria. The interdisciplinary and international ERMES ...

Prof. Robert Schober was elected as Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. The European Academy of Sciences and Arts is a non-governmental, European association committed to promoting scientific and societal progress. Founded in 1990 as a learned society, its 2,000 members are leading ...

Several IDC researchers attended the 14th International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications, and Coding (SCC) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. SCC 2025 is organized by the Information Technology Group (ITG) of the German Association for Electrical, Electronic, and Infor...

As part of the 6G Research and Innovation Cluster (6G-RIC), Ata Kahlili and Moritz Garkisch visited RWTH Aachen for two days, from March 11th to 12th, 2025. On the first day, the meeting was divided into six subgroups, each focusing on a different topic. Each group discussed the latest technical ...

The Institute for Digital Communications (IDC) hosted a two-day project status meeting for the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT) project from Monday, February 24 to Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg! The IoBNT project aims to develop a communication platform for connecting the hu...

Andreas Feder attended this year’s IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), a core conference of IEEE Communications Society, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. He successfully presented his latest work titled “Blind Roll-Off Factor Estimation for Paired Carrier Multiple Access Satel...

Welcome to an exciting journey into the world of synthetic molecular communication and the creation of the Internet of Cells! The course "Building the Internet of Cells with Synthetic Molecular Communication" is offered jointly by FAU and TUM and will introduce you to the latest scientific discoveri...

Prof. Robert Schober received an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor honoris causa) for his contributions to wireless and molecular communications from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. The degree was awarded in a solemn ceremony on December 19, 2024. After Profs. Markos Papageorgiou and Athanasi...

Hedieh Ajam won 2nd place in the IEEE Communications Society’s Four-Minute-Thesis (4MT) competition. The 4MT competition challenges PhD students to explain their research project to a non-specialist audience in just four minutes. The competition is held in two rounds. In the first round, contestants...

IDC was well represented at the 2024 IEEE Global Communication Conference (GLOBECOM) in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa. GLOBECOM is one of the flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society. Hedieh Ajam, Ata Khalili, and Lukas Brand presented their new work during the Symposium Technical...

Prof. Dr. Robert Schober has been listed on the "Highly Cited Researchers List 2024". This list, compiled by Clarivate Analytics, includes the world's most influential researchers whose work is frequently cited by their peers. Prof. Schober is the only researcher in Germany recognized in the categor...

Recently, Sebastian Lotter, postdoctoral researcher at IDC, was invited to visit the lab of Prof. George Kargiannidis at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. During his visit, Sebastian got the chance to attend the defense of a Master thesis on Molecular Communication and he delivered a tal...

In a recent presentation at the Thinknet 6G Summit 2024 in Munich, Prof. Schober discussed the relevance of Molecular Communication for future wireless communication networks. The event was organized by "bayern innovativ".

Teena tom Dieck was awarded the VDE Bayern Award 2024 for her Master’s Thesis titled “Optical-to-Chemical Signal Modulation with Functionalized Nanodevices” supervised by Dr. Maximilian Schäfer, Lukas Brand, Prof. Dr. Kathrin Castiglione, and Prof. Dr. Robert Schober. The thesis was conducted in coo...

Ata Khalili has been awarded a travel grant to attend IEEE Globecom 2024, where he will present his accepted paper entitled "Advanced ISAC Design: Movable Antennas and Accounting for Dynamic RCS". The conference will be held December 8-12 in Cape Town, South Africa. IEEE Globecom is recognized as a ...

The current issue of the  FAU Magazine contains an article entitled 'Moleküle auf Sendung' (Molecules on air) about two new IDC research projects on molecular communication. Specifically, the article reports on the Research Training Group ‘Synthetic Molecular Communications Across Different Scales: ...