Dr. Maximilian Schäfer

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

The networked human – health monitoring in the Internet of BioNanoThings.

 

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the greatest achievements of digitalization. The interconnection of various elements of society and industry has created a global ecosystem of data. The IoT enables an accurate picture of the current state and through Artificial Intelligence, patterns in data can be detected to enable predictions about future states. The proposed project adds a new dimension to digitization. Networking the human body with the Internet in the so-called Internet of BioNanoThings (IoBNT) enables monitoring of health status for early detection of diseases and their targeted treatment. Unlike existing IoT devices for external health monitoring, IoBNT devices form an “in-body” communication network designed to enable localized diagnosis and personalized treatment at the organ or even cell level. The “in-body” communication within the IoBNT is enabled by Molecular Communication (MK), a novel and innovative communication paradigm in which information is encoded in the properties of molecules. The realization of IoBNT not only promises groundbreaking advances in the field of personalized healthcare, it is also a solution approach to the new challenges that globalization has posed to our healthcare system. For example, by analyzing data from all participants in the IoBNT, it will be possible to predict impending local outbreaks of infectious diseases and then respond to them in a targeted manner. By developing new concepts for the body’s communication with the Internet and suitable algorithms for data evaluation and prediction, the project contributes to being able to diagnose diseases with greater accuracy and earlier in the future. Experimental verification of the results ensures that the developed techniques can be transferred into functioning applications. However, the development of new digital technologies must not be an end in itself, but should take place where they are socially needed and desired. The project is given an agile and interdisciplinary profile by including the requirements of important stakeholders (society, industry) and the potential societal impact of IoBNT in the technical development.

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Scientific Writing with AI: Insights, Challenges, and Best Practices

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31 July 2024

This study examines ChatGPT’s impact on scientific writing by comparing abstracts created with and without AI assistance.

Publications

  • Schäfer, Maximilian; Prawda, Karolina; Rabenstein, Rudolf; Schlecht, Sebastian J. (2023)

    Distribution of Modal Damping in Absorptive Shoebox Rooms

    Conference paper
    Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, P. 1-5
    DOI: 10.1109/waspaa58266.2023.10248145
    Project: GC-Postdoc
  • Rabenstein, Rudolf; Schäfer, Maximilian (2023)

    Multidimensional Signals and Systems – Theory and Foundations

    Book
    Springer Cham
    ISBN: 9783031265136
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26514-3
    Project: GC-Postdoc
  • Lotter, Sebastian; Brand, Lukas; Jamali, Vahid; Schäfer, Maximilian; Loos, Helene; Unterweger, Harald; Greiner, Sandra; Kirchner, Jens; Alexiou, Christoph; Drummer, Dietmar; Fischer, Georg; Buettner, Andrea; Schober, Robert (2023)

    Experimental Research in Synthetic Molecular Communications — Part II: Long-Range Communication

    Journal article
    IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine
    DOI: 10.1109/mnano.2023.3262377
    Project: GC-Postdoc
  • Lotter, Sebastian; Brand, Lukas; Jamali, Vahid; Schäfer, Maximilian; Loos, Helene; Unterweger, Harald; Greiner, Sandra; Kirchner, Jens; Alexiou, Christoph; Drummer, Dietmar; Fischer, Georg; Buettner, Andrea; Schober, Robert (2023)

    Experimental Research in Synthetic Molecular Communications — Part I: Overview and Short-Range Systems

    Journal article
    IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine
    DOI: 10.1109/mnano.2023.3262100
    Project: GC-Postdoc
  • Heinlein, Bastian; Brand, Lukas; Egan, Malcolm; Schäfer, Maximilian; Schober, Robert; Lotter, Sebastian (2023)

    Stochastic Chemical Reaction Networks for MAP Detection in Cellular Receivers

    Conference paper
    Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication, P. 65-71
    DOI: 10.1145/3576781.3608709
    Project: GC-Postdoc
  • Egan, Malcolm; Kuscu, Murat; Barros, Michael Taynnan; Booth, Michael; Llopis-Lorente, Antoni; Magarini, Maurizio; Martins, Daniel P.; Schäfer, Maximilian; Stano, Pasquale (2023)

    Toward Interdisciplinary Synergies in Molecular Communications: Perspectives from Synthetic Biology, Nanotechnology, Communications Engineering and Philosophy of Science

    Journal article
    Life (Basel, Switzerland), Volume: 13, Nr. 1
    DOI: 10.3390/life13010208
    Project: GC-Postdoc
  • Brand, Lukas; Scherer, Maike; Lotter, Sebastian; Dieck, Teena Tom; Schäfer, Maximilian; Burkovski, Andreas; Sticht, Heinrich; Castiglione, Kathrin; Schober, Robert (2023)

    Switchable Signaling Molecules for Media Modulation: Fundamentals, Applications, and Research Directions

    Journal article
    IEEE Communications Magazine
    DOI: 10.1109/mcom.021.2300096
    Project: GC-Postdoc
  • Brand, Lukas; Lotter, Sebastian; Jamali, Vahid; Schober, Robert; Schäfer, Maximilian (2023)

    Area Rate Efficiency in Multi-Link Molecular Communications

    Journal article
    IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications
    Project: GC-Postdoc
  • Schäfer, Maximilian; Brand, Lukas; Lotter, Sebastian; Büyükoglu, Atakan; Enzenhofer, Franz; Haselmayr, Werner; Castiglione, Kathrin; Appelhans, Dietmar; Schober, Robert (2022)

    Controlled Signaling and Transmitter Replenishment for MC with Functionalized Nanoparticles

    Conference paper
    Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication
    DOI: 10.1145/3558583.3558853
    Project: GC-Postdoc
  • Schäfer, Maximilian; Salinas, Yolanda; Ruderer, Alexander; Enzenhofer, Franz; Bruggemann, Oliver; Martinez-Manez, Ramon; Rabenstein, Rudolf; Schober, Robert; Haselmayr, Werner (2022)

    Channel Responses for the Molecule Release From Spherical Homogeneous Matrix Carriers

    Journal article
    IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications, Volume: 8, Nr. 4, P. 212-228
    DOI: 10.1109/tmbmc.2022.3182571
    Project: GC-Postdoc
  • Parker, Julian; Schlecht, Sebastian J.; Rabenstein, Rudolf; Schäfer, Maximilian (2022)

    Physical Modeling using Recurrent Neural Networks with Fast Convolutional Layers

    Conference paper
    Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects
    Project: GC-Postdoc
  • Lotter, Sebastian; Barros, Michael Taynnan; Schober, Robert; Schäfer, Maximilian (2022)

    Signal Reception With Generic Three-State Receptors in Synaptic MC

    Conference paper
    Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference
    Project: GC-Postdoc
  • Brand, Lukas; Garkisch, Moritz; Lotter, Sebastian; Schäfer, Maximilian; Burkovski, Andreas; Sticht, Heinrich; Castiglione, Kathrin; Schober, Robert (2022)

    Media Modulation based Molecular Communications

    Journal article
    IEEE Transactions on Communications, Volume: 70, Nr. 11, P. 7207-7223
    DOI: 10.1109/tcomm.2022.3205949
    Project: GC-Postdoc