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As part of this year’s Ferienakademie, which took place across several locations in the Sarntal Alps, SyMoCADS members hosted their course at the Murrer Hof. The course, titled “Building the Internet of Cells with Synthetic Molecular Communication,” was held from September 21 to October 3, 2025, and...

Our Mercator Fellow – Prof. Yansha Deng – a member of the Department of Engineering at King’s College London has been awarded a £1.3 Million Starting Grant from the European Research Council to develop devices that can compute and communicate without using electrical signals. The aim of the resea...

Prof. Robert Schober gave a talk in the FAU seminar series “Collegium Alexandrinum” on the topic “Natürliche Kommunikationsprozesse nutzbar machen: Synthetische molekulare Kommunikation.” In his talk, he outlined the fundamentals of synthetic molecular communication (MC) and how natural signaling ca...

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...

Timo Jakumeit has received a travel grant from the IEEE Communications Society to attend the 2nd Workshop on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communication (MBMC) in Montreal, where he will present his research on molecular communications. The funding will help cover travel and accommodation c...

On Saturday, May 10, 2025, the 12th Erlangen Charity Run took place in Röthelheimpark and our representation was also there. As in previous years, the main aim of the event was the sustainable promotion of integration through sport via the “Leo Lions Sportkids” project at Pestalozzi School. The S...