Molecular communication: New priority program at FAU

A person looks at a hospital bed with a robotic arm and screens in the background. (Bild: FAU/Boris Mijat)
FAU/Boris Mijat

Eight new priority programs (SPP) from the German Research Foundation (DFG) are due to commence in 2026. One of these programs will be based at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU): “Holistic Design of Molecular Communication Systems, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Robert Schober, Chair of Digital Communications.

Technical communication systems such as radio, telephones and the Internet are part and parcel of our daily lives. However, transferring information using electromagnetic waves soon reaches its limits when the information is being passed between biological systems, when the transfer medium is liquid, or for microscale applications. Read more …