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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Teena tom Dieck and Maximilian Schäfer presented their work at the 11th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom), held in Milan, Italy, from October 28–30, 2024. NanoCom is one of the premier conferences for the interdisciplinary molecular communications commun...
On 11th of November, Timo Jakumeit gave a talk to 11th-grade W-Seminar students on "Molecular Communication (MC) - How Communication Engineering Can Be Used to Develop Novel Technologies in Medicine". The presentation covered the basics of MC, a comparison to electromagnetic communication, and the f...
Maximilian Schäfer, Fardad Vakilipoor, Bastian Heinlein, and Timo Jakumeit recently visited the lab of Silke Harteis at the University of Regensburg. This visit is part of an ongoing collaboration on an in vivo 3D testbed for molecular communication using the Chorioallantoic Membrane Model. They exp...
Timo Jakumeit from the Institute for Digital Communications has won the IEEE ComSoc MBMC-TC (Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications Technical Committee) logo competition. Out of five submissions in the final short list, Timo's logo received the highest number of votes, with 38.4% of t...
Brikena Kaziu attended this fall's IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), one of the semi-annual flagship conferences of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, in Washington DC, USA. She successfully presented her latest work titled "Approximate Partially Decentralized Linear EZF Precoding for Mass...
From Wednesday, 9 October 2024 to Friday, 11 October 2024, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Schober and Moritz Garkisch participated in the 6G Research and Innovation Cluster (6G-RIC) meeting at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) in Berlin. On Wednesday and Thursday, the latest ideas and approaches ...
The Institute for Digital Communications at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg offers two exciting internship positions in the field of molecular communications for undergraduate students from North America, Great Britain and Ireland. These internships are funded by the DAAD (German...
On October 10th and 11th the joint annual Igel seminar of IDC and LMS took place again. During these two days in Osternohe, we heard interesting talks about research topics from (new) staff members of both chairs. The talks gave insights into different topics ranging from signal processing and machi...
