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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-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Schober. IDC is complemented by Prof. Dr. Laura Cottatellucci, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Müller, and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Gerstacker.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Schober

Head of the Institute for Digital Communications

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...

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...

 

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IDC’s Lighthouse Projects

The Research Training Group (RTG) SyMoCADS is a research training program funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) to train scientists and engineers in the emerging interdisciplinary field of molecular communication.

 

EmpkinS is a Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) with a the focus on capturing human motion parameters remotely in a minimally disturbing and non-invasive manner and with very high resolution.

 

The Research Training Group (RTG) KoRaTo is a joint project between the Ulm University (UUlm) and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg with the aim to develop a new UAV- and radar-based geophysical monitoring system to measure for instance earth mass movements, vegetation heights, or the cryosphere.

 

6G-RIC is part of the 6G Platform Germany and aims to address the research challenges of the 6th generation of mobile communications.

 

IDC’s Fields of Research Activity

Next Generation Wireless Communication

Molecular and Biological Communication Systems

Machine Learning, Signal Processing and Information Theory

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