Best Paper Award for IDC Authors for Globecom 2024 Paper
IDC researchers Hedieh Ajam, Vasilis K. Papanikolaou, and Robert Schober, along with IDC alumnus and current Assistant Professor at TU-Darmstadt…
Teena tom Dieck Receives Schnieder-Award “Junge Macherin”
Teena tom Dieck has been awarded the “Junge Macherin” prize by the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) for…
Invited Talk by Ata Khalili at IUST
IDC member Ata Khalili gave an invited talk at Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) in Tehran, Iran, upon invitation…
Lukas Brand is now a “Dr.-Ing.”!
We are pleased to announce that IDC member Lukas Brand successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on December 19, 2025, thereby…
IDC Participation at GLOBECOM 2025 in Taipei
The IDC was strongly represented at this year’s IEEE GLOBECOM 2025, held in Taipei, Taiwan. Our participation included leadership roles…
Prof. Robert Schober Named Highly Cited Researcher 2025
Prof. Dr. Robert Schober has been listed on the “Highly Cited Researchers List 2025”. This list, compiled by Clarivate Analytics,…
Travel Grant for Ata Khalili
Ata Khalili has been awarded a travel grant to attend IEEE Globecom 2025, where he will present his accepted paper…
“Zukunftsplausch – Der vernetzte Mensch” at Deutsches Museum Nürnberg
On November 11, 2025, the IDC participated in the Zukunftsplausch discussion event “Der vernetzte Mensch – Im Internet der Bio-Nano…
IDC Participation at 1st FOCAL Training School
As part of the HORIZON-MSCA Doctoral Network Free-space Optical Communication for 6G Aerial-sateLlite networks (FOCAL), IDC researchers participated in the…
IDC Researchers Win Best Paper and Best Poster Award at NanoCom ’25 in Chengdu
The high quality of research at IDC has been again acknowledged at the 12th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing…
Successful IDC Participation at NanoCom ’25 in Chengdu
Researchers from IDC successfully showcased their latest work at the 12th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom…
IDC @ Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2025
On October 25, the IDC took part in the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften (LNdW), the region’s bi-annual “Night of Science”…
Johanna Fröhlich at NHR Conference 2025 in Göttingen
Johanna Fröhlich represented the IDC at the NHR Conference 2025, held from September 22–25 in Göttingen, Germany. She gave a…
IoBNT Project Meeting in Dresden
The Internet of Bio-Nano-Things (IoBNT) Project Meeting took place on October 9–10, 2025, at TU Dresden, as part of the…
Annual Igel Seminar of LMS and IDC
On October 7th and 8th, the joint annual Igel Seminar of the IDC and LMS took place once again, this…
IDC @ Ferienakademie 2025 – Building the Internet of Cells
As part of this year’s Ferienakademie, which took place across several locations in the Sarntal Alps, the IDC hosted its…
Talk by Prof. Schober at Collegium Alexandrinum
Prof. Robert Schober gave a talk in the FAU seminar series “Collegium Alexandrinum” on the topic “Natürliche Kommunikationsprozesse nutzbar machen: Synthetische…
Marzieh Najafi Wins ATE Promotionspreis 2025
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Marzieh Najafi, former member of the IDC, has been awarded the ATE Promotionspreis…
IDC Participation at IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop in Edinburgh
Hans Rosenberger represented our chair at the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing (SSP) Workshop 2025, held from June 8–11 in Edinburgh,…
Invited Lecture by Maximilian Schäfer in Lisbon
Maximilian Schäfer gave an invited lecture at the 2025 Summer School of the CoDaS Master’s Program in Lisbon, Portugal. The…
IDC Participation at IEEE SPAWC 2025 in Surrey
Dr.-Ing. Gui Zhou attended the 2025 IEEE 26th International Workshop on Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence in Wireless Communications (IEEE…
IDC Researcher to Visit Lab of Prof. Karagiannidis at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
On June 16, 2025, Dr.-Ing. Gui Zhou, postdoctoral researcher at IDC, was invited by Vasilis K. Papanikolaou to visit the…
HORIZON-MSCA-SE Knowledge Transfer in Durham
As part of the HORIZON-MSCA Staff Exchange (SE) program, Dr.-Ing. Gui Zhou visited Durham University on June 3rd, 2025. Both…
Gui Zhou Wins IEEE SPS Best PhD Dissertation Award
IDC member Dr.-Ing. Gui Zhou has been awarded the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Society Best PhD Dissertation Award 2024 for…
HORIZON-MSCA-SE Meeting and UNITE Workshop in Padova
As part of the HORIZON-MSCA Staff Exchange (SE) program, Dr.-Ing. Gui Zhou visited the University of Padova on May 8,…
Maximilian Schäfer Elected to “Die Junge Akademie”
On 7 June 2025, as part of its annual celebration, Die Junge Akademie welcomed ten young scientists and artists into…
IDC Researchers @ 2nd Workshop on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communication
This year, the 2nd Workshop on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communication (WMBMC) took place directly after ICC. The workshop was…
Strong IDC Participation at ICC 2025 in Montreal
The IDC was strongly represented at this year’s International Conference on Communications (ICC 2025), held in Montreal, Canada. Our participation…
Nikita Shanin Wins Best Ph.D. Thesis Award
Former IDC member Dr.-Ing. Nikita Shanin has received the best Ph.D. Thesis award at the EuCNC & 6G summit! Congratulations!…
Kenneth Mayer is now a “Dr.-Ing.”!
We’re proud to share that our former colleague, Kenneth Mayer, has successfully defended his dissertation on May 12, 2025, earning…
Excellent Teaching at IDC
As part of the student evaluation of courses in the winter semester 2024/2025, the IDC achieved particularly outstanding results in…
Timo Jakumeit Awarded IEEE Travel Grant
Timo Jakumeit has received a travel grant from the IEEE Communications Society to attend the 2nd Workshop on Molecular, Biological,…
Johanna Fröhlich wins Best Paper Award – Sustainability at IEEE CAI 2025
Johanna Fröhlich was awarded the Best Paper Award of the Sustainability Track at the IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI)…
VDE Young Net Excursion to Helgoland 2025
The VDE Young Net organized a trip to Helgoland from April 10 to 12, 2025, which was also attended by…
6G Valley Opening Event
On March 31, 2025, the 6G-Valley innovation cluster was officially launched at a kick-off event hosted by FAU and Fraunhofer…
Strong IDC Participation at the 9th MolCom Workshop in Catania
From April 9–11, 2025, several researchers of the Institute for Digital Communications (IDC) had the pleasure of attending the 9th…
New DFG Priority Program on Molecular Communication at FAU
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has selected eight new Priority Programs (“Schwerpunktprogramm”, SPP) to begin in 2026. One of these…
Invited Presentation at the 6G-life and 6G-RIC Workshop on Post-Shannon Theory and Molecular Communication
Maximilian Schäfer, postdoctoral researcher at IDC, gave an invited talk at the 2025 6G-life and 6G-RIC Workshop on Post-Shannon Theory…
Bayerisches Ärzteblatt Article on Molecular Communications
The research project ERMES, led by Dr. Maximilian Schäfer at IDC, is featured in the latest issue of the Bayerisches…
Prof. Schober Elected to European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Prof. Robert Schober was elected as Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. The European Academy of Sciences…
Strong IDC Participation at SCC 2025
Several IDC researchers attended the 14th International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications, and Coding (SCC) at the Karlsruhe Institute of…
6G-RIC Project Meeting in Aachen
As part of the 6G Research and Innovation Cluster (6G-RIC), Ata Kahlili and Moritz Garkisch visited RWTH Aachen for two…
IoBNT Project Meeting at IDC
The Institute for Digital Communications (IDC) hosted a two-day project status meeting for the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT) project…
IDC Contributions to IEEE CCNC
Andreas Feder attended this year’s IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), a core conference of IEEE Communications Society, in…
IDC at Ferienakademie
Welcome to an exciting journey into the world of synthetic molecular communication and the creation of the Internet of Cells!…
Honorary Doctorate for Prof. Schober
Prof. Robert Schober received an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor honoris causa) for his contributions to wireless and molecular communications from Aristotle…
Hedieh Ajam wins 2nd place in 4MT Competition
Hedieh Ajam won 2nd place in the IEEE Communications Society’s Four-Minute-Thesis (4MT) competition. The 4MT competition challenges PhD students to…
Strong IDC Participation at GLOBECOM 2024
IDC was well represented at the 2024 IEEE Global Communication Conference (GLOBECOM) in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa. GLOBECOM is…
Prof. Robert Schober Named Highly Cited Researcher 2024
Prof. Dr. Robert Schober has been listed on the “Highly Cited Researchers List 2024”. This list, compiled by Clarivate Analytics,…
IDC researcher to visit lab of Prof. Karagiannidis at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Recently, Sebastian Lotter, postdoctoral researcher at IDC, was invited to visit the lab of Prof. George Kargiannidis at Aristotle University…
Talk on Synthetic Molecular Communications at Thinknet 6G Summit 2024
In a recent presentation at the Thinknet 6G Summit 2024 in Munich, Prof. Schober discussed the relevance of Molecular Communication…
Teena tom Dieck wins VDE Bayern Award 2024
Teena tom Dieck was awarded the VDE Bayern Award 2024 for her Master’s Thesis titled “Optical-to-Chemical Signal Modulation with Functionalized…
Travel Grant for Ata Khalili
Ata Khalili has been awarded a travel grant to attend IEEE Globecom 2024, where he will present his accepted paper…
FAU Magazine Article on Molecular Communication
The current issue of the FAU Magazine contains an article entitled ‘Moleküle auf Sendung’ (Molecules on air) about two new…
IDC Researchers win the Best Paper and Best Presentation Award at ACM NanoCom
Teena tom Dieck and Maximilian Schäfer presented their work at the 11th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom), held…
Introduction to Molecular Communication for W-Seminar Students
On 11th of November, Timo Jakumeit gave a talk to 11th-grade W-Seminar students on “Molecular Communication (MC) – How Communication…
Collaborative Visit to Uni Regensburg: Advancing a 3D In Vivo Testbed
Maximilian Schäfer, Fardad Vakilipoor, Bastian Heinlein, and Timo Jakumeit recently visited the lab of Silke Harteis at the University of…
MATLAB Workshop with Alberto Álvarez Polegre
On 29 October 204, the IDC hosted an insightful MATLAB workshop led by Dr. Alberto Álvarez Polegre of MathWorks Inc.…
Timo Jakumeit wins MBMC-TC Logo Competition
Timo Jakumeit from the Institute for Digital Communications has won the IEEE ComSoc MBMC-TC (Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications Technical…
IDC Contributions to IEEE VTC24-Fall
Brikena Kaziu attended this fall’s IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), one of the semi-annual flagship conferences of IEEE Vehicular Technology…
Johanna Fröhlich wins 2nd Place in Green ICT Award
Johanna Fröhlich won 2nd place in the Green ICT Award 2024 from Forschungsfabrik Mikroelektronik Deutschland (FMD) for her bachelor thesis…
EU funds work of IDC researchers with 500,000 Euros
Will sensors in the body be able to permanently monitor whether new tumours develop after cancer treatment? An international research…
6G-RIC Project Meeting
From Wednesday, 9 October 2024 to Friday, 11 October 2024, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Schober and Moritz Garkisch participated in the…
Open Research Internship Positions in Molecular Communications
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…
IoBNT Project Meeting in Lübeck
As part of the ongoing Internet of Bio-Nano-Things (IoBNT) project, IDC’s Maximilian Schäfer, Sebastian Lotter, and Timo Jakumeit recently attended…
Annual Igel Seminar of LMS and IDC
On October 10th and 11th the joint annual Igel seminar of IDC and LMS took place again. During these two…
Aravindh Krishnamoorthy is now a “Dr.-Ing.”!
Our former colleague Aravindh Krishnamoorthy has taken the final step towards obtaining the degree of Dr.-Ing. On Thursday, September 26,…
Seminar on the Internet of BioNanoThings
IDC is offering a seminar on "The Internet of BioNanoThings for Next Generation Health Care Solutions" this winter semester. Students from Bachelor and Master programs can apply for this seminar on the website of the Department EEI from September 23 to October 6, 2024. For more details, see the full post!
IDC Contributions to IEEE ICC 2024
Kenneth Mayer, Amine Lahmeri, and Lukas Brand attended and successfully presented their work at this year’s IEEE International Conference on…
Lukas Brand and Amine Lahmeri win 4MT Competition
Amine Lahmeri and Lukas Brand won 3rd and 1st place, respectively, in the IEEE Communications Society’s Four-Minute-Thesis (4MT) competition. The…
Best Paper Award for IDC Authors for Globecom 2023 Paper
IDC researchers Nikita Shanin, Hedieh Ajam, Vasilis K. Papanikolaou, Laura Cottatellucci, and Robert Schober have received Best Paper Award 2023…
Open HiWi Positions
IDC offers several open HIW positions in the exciting new interdisciplinary research field of molecular communication.
You are interested? Then get in touch with Dr. Sebastian Lotter!
Nikita Shanin is now a “Dr.-Ing.”
Our former colleague Nikita Shanin has taken the final step towards obtaining the degree of Dr.-Ing. On Friday, May 17, 2024, he successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Optimal Design of Communication Systems Based on Wireless Power Transfer with Non-linear Energy Harvesting”.
Nikita, who was supervised by both Prof. Cottatellucci and Prof. Schober, investigated and optimized methods of wirelessly transmitting energy to small sensors placed in remote locations or perhaps inside the human body to recharge their batteries.
New BMBF funded Research Project at IDC
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has approved the project "Innovative test platform for molecular communication and microsurgical training - fluorescence systems, novel prostheses and technologies" with funding of more than half a million euros for the years 2024-2026.
IDC molecular communication researchers led by Dr.-Ing. Max Schäfer contribute to this innovative, interdisciplinary project.
Excellent Teaching at the IDC
The lab course "Digital Communication" was evaluated very well in the winter semester 2022/23 and ranked 2nd in the teaching evaluation of the FAU Faculty of Engineering.
IEEE ComSoc Leonard G. Abraham Prize for former and current IDC members
Former and current IDC members Alex Yu, Dongfang Xu, Ying Sun, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, and Robert Schober received the IEEE ComSoc Leonard G. Abraham Prize for their paper “Robust and Secure Wireless Communications via Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 38, no. 11, pp.2637-2652, Nov. 2020.