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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

FERIENAKADEMIE 2025

Join our course Building the Internet of Cells with Synthetic Molecular Communication at Summer Academy 2025. The course introduces you to the latest scientific discoveries and technological advances in synthetic molecular communication!

WHEN: 21.9.2025 – 3.10.2025

WHERE: Sarntal Alps

FOR: Students of natural and engineering sciences, computer science or medicine

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....

 

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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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