Chair

The Institute for Digital Communication (IDC) is part of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communications of the Faculty of Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. It is headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Schober and has about 35 employees, of which about 25 are researchers. The IDC almost always hosts international visiting researchers. In addition, the IDC usually employs several students in research projects and as tutors for teaching.

The IDC offices are located on the south campus of the FAU in one of the two electrical engineering towers. Most offices are on the 4th and 5th floor of Cauerstraße 7, Erlangen.

History

The Institute of Digital Communications (IDC) consists of three chairs.

The Chair of Digital Communication (IDC) was established in 2011 by Prof. Robert Schober, who now heads the IDC, as the successor to the Chair of Mobile Communication (Prof. Wolfgang Koch), which was founded in 2001 as the Ericsson Chair of Mobile Communication.

The Chair of Information Transmission, held by Prof. Ralf Müller, is the successor to the Chair of Information Transmission (Prof. Johannes Huber), which was established in 1998 from the former Chair of Communications Engineering (Prof. Wilhelm Schüßler, later Prof. Bernhard Girod) at the FAU.

The Chair of Digital Transmission, held by Prof. Laura Cottatellucci, was newly established as part of the elite programme Advanced Communication Systems (ASC) and was made permanent by the FAU.