Institute for Digital Communications

MC is an emerging field that transmits information using molecules rather than electromagnetic waves. This lets communication happen where conventional wireless communication breaks down, and lets engineered systems interface naturally with living ones, borrowing signaling mechanisms that evolution has refined over billions of years. The result is a new set of possibilities in healthcare, smart agriculture and pest control, targeted drug delivery, and bio-nano networks. And IDC at FAU is one of the world’s leading centers for MC research! Our group leads flagship initiatives like the DFG Research Training Group SyMoCADS and the DFG Priority Program HoD-MoCS — and has earned multiple Best Paper Awards at leading international conferences.

The lecture and its tutorials give a comprehensive introduction to this fast-growing, interdisciplinary field and prepare you to take on your own MC research projects. Topics span the biochemical foundations of MC, natural MC systems, communication-theoretic channel modeling, and signal detection and parameter estimation. Prior knowledge of stochastic processes and communication systems is helpful but not required. So whether your background is in communication engineering, medical engineering, computer science, biology, or chemistry, this series is a chance to join one of the current exciting frontiers in communication science.