Synthetic Molecular Communications Across Different Scales: From Theory to Experiments
Synthetic Molecular Communications Across Different Scales: From Theory to Experiments (SyMoCADS)
Research Training Group (RTG) 2950 SyMoCADS is a research training program funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) with the aim to educate scientists and engineers in this emerging interdisciplinary field of research. The RTG comprises of ten principal advisors (PAs) from the Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Science, the Medical Faculty, and the University Hospital. Research takes place in an excellent scientific environment at FAU, with top-notch instrumentation in the laboratories of the participating principal advisors (PAs).
The research program, consisting of 9 doctoral research projects (P1-P9) organized in 3 clusters (C1-C3) and a cross-cluster postdoctoral project (P10), and the structured qualification program aim to equip the participating researchers with the knowledge and skill set needed to significantly advance the field of molecular communication (MC) and to bring it to the realm of practical applications.
Dr. Maximilian Schäfer gave an invited lecture at the 2025 Summer School of the CoDaS Master’s Program in Lisbon, Portugal. The CoDaS program is an international joint master’s degree program in communications engineering and data science offered by five European universities. It is an Erasmus Mundu...
The first year of SyMoCADS is completed and on July 21. and 22. we returned to Forschungscampus Waischenfeld to look back, evaluate what we have accomplished so far, and plan our next steps. We had the great pleasure to get inspired by the excellent talks of our distinguished guests – Prof. Josep Mi...
On 7 June 2025, as part of its annual celebration, Die Junge Akademie welcomed ten young scientists and artists into its ranks as members while simultaneously celebrating its 25th anniversary. One of the newly elected members is IDC and SyMoCADS associated researcher Maximilian Schäfer.
Die Junge...
This year, the 2nd Workshop on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communication (WMBMC) took place directly after ICC. The workshop was co-organised by Dr-Ing. Maximilian Schäfer and took place at the University of Montreal on June 12 - 13. Prof. Robert Schober gave an invited talk on our ongoing...
SyMoCADS was strongly represented at this year’s International Conference on Communications (ICC 2025), held in Montreal, Canada. Our participation spanned leadership roles and scientific contributions. ICC is one of two flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society (COMSOC), alongside Glo...
