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Prof. Robert Schober received an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor honoris causa) for his contributions to wireless and molecular communications from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. The degree was awarded in a solemn ceremony on December 19, 2024. After Profs. Markos Papageorgiou and Athanasi...

Hedieh Ajam won 2nd place in the IEEE Communications Society’s Four-Minute-Thesis (4MT) competition. The 4MT competition challenges PhD students to explain their research project to a non-specialist audience in just four minutes. The competition is held in two rounds. In the first round, contestants...

IDC was well represented at the 2024 IEEE Global Communication Conference (GLOBECOM) in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa. GLOBECOM is one of the flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society. Hedieh Ajam, Ata Khalili, and Lukas Brand presented their new work during the Symposium Technical...

Prof. Dr. Robert Schober has been listed on the "Highly Cited Researchers List 2024". This list, compiled by Clarivate Analytics, includes the world's most influential researchers whose work is frequently cited by their peers. Prof. Schober is the only researcher in Germany recognized in the categor...

Recently, Sebastian Lotter, postdoctoral researcher at IDC, was invited to visit the lab of Prof. George Kargiannidis at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. During his visit, Sebastian got the chance to attend the defense of a Master thesis on Molecular Communication and he delivered a tal...

In a recent presentation at the Thinknet 6G Summit 2024 in Munich, Prof. Schober discussed the relevance of Molecular Communication for future wireless communication networks. The event was organized by "bayern innovativ".

Teena tom Dieck was awarded the VDE Bayern Award 2024 for her Master’s Thesis titled “Optical-to-Chemical Signal Modulation with Functionalized Nanodevices” supervised by Dr. Maximilian Schäfer, Lukas Brand, Prof. Dr. Kathrin Castiglione, and Prof. Dr. Robert Schober. The thesis was conducted in coo...

Ata Khalili has been awarded a travel grant to attend IEEE Globecom 2024, where he will present his accepted paper entitled "Advanced ISAC Design: Movable Antennas and Accounting for Dynamic RCS". The conference will be held December 8-12 in Cape Town, South Africa. IEEE Globecom is recognized as a ...

The current issue of the  FAU Magazine contains an article entitled 'Moleküle auf Sendung' (Molecules on air) about two new IDC research projects on molecular communication. Specifically, the article reports on the Research Training Group ‘Synthetic Molecular Communications Across Different Scales: ...

Teena tom Dieck and Maximilian Schäfer presented their work at the 11th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom), held in Milan, Italy, from October 28–30, 2024. NanoCom is one of the premier conferences for the interdisciplinary molecular communications commun...

On 11th of November, Timo Jakumeit gave a talk to 11th-grade W-Seminar students on "Molecular Communication (MC) - How Communication Engineering Can Be Used to Develop Novel Technologies in Medicine". The presentation covered the basics of MC, a comparison to electromagnetic communication, and the f...

Maximilian Schäfer, Fardad Vakilipoor, Bastian Heinlein, and Timo Jakumeit recently visited the lab of Silke Harteis at the University of Regensburg. This visit is part of an ongoing collaboration on an in vivo 3D testbed for molecular communication using the Chorioallantoic Membrane Model. They exp...

On 29 October 204, the IDC hosted an insightful MATLAB workshop led by Dr. Alberto Álvarez Polegre of MathWorks Inc. The session, entitled 'Modelling Advanced Wireless Communications in Teaching and Research', focused on using MATLAB to simulate and analyse advanced wireless communication systems, c...

Timo Jakumeit from the Institute for Digital Communications has won the IEEE ComSoc MBMC-TC (Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications Technical Committee) logo competition. Out of five submissions in the final short list, Timo's logo received the highest number of votes, with 38.4% of t...

Brikena Kaziu attended this fall's IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), one of the semi-annual flagship conferences of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, in Washington DC, USA. She successfully presented her latest work titled "Approximate Partially Decentralized Linear EZF Precoding for Mass...

Johanna Fröhlich won 2nd place in the Green ICT Award 2024 from Forschungsfabrik Mikroelektronik Deutschland (FMD) for her bachelor thesis "Algorithms for Matrix Decomposition for Computational Coding". This thesis introduces algorithms to reduce the computational cost during the inference phase of ...

From Wednesday, 9 October 2024 to Friday, 11 October 2024, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Schober and Moritz Garkisch participated in the 6G Research and Innovation Cluster (6G-RIC) meeting at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) in Berlin. On Wednesday and Thursday, the latest ideas and approaches ...

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 from North America, Great Britain and Ireland. These internships are funded by the DAAD (German...

As part of the ongoing Internet of Bio-Nano-Things (IoBNT) project, IDC's Maximilian Schäfer, Sebastian Lotter, and Timo Jakumeit recently attended a workshop at the Media Docks in Lübeck. The two-day event featured engaging sessions on molecular communication in medical applications and collaborati...

On October 10th and 11th the joint annual Igel seminar of IDC and LMS took place again. During these two days in Osternohe, we heard interesting talks about research topics from (new) staff members of both chairs. The talks gave insights into different topics ranging from signal processing and machi...