
Revealing the behaviour of von Willebrandt Factor through experiments and simulations
Dr. Camilo Aponte-Santamaria has recently published three papers revealing the behaviour of the von Willebrandt factor. The work describes a new …

The reactivity of click-chemistry isomers revealed by QM calculations!
In this study Wagner et al. systematically quantified the reactivity of newly discovered TCO* conformers with tetrazines in comparison to other …

How Complex Problems Become Simple
Mathematician Anna Wienhard is the new Research Group Leader at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS). In addition to her …

SCO Scientists: “Best Lecture” at KIT Computer Science
For their lecture “Introduction to Bioinformatics for Computer Scientists”, SCO group members Alexandros Stamatakis, Andre Aberer, Tomas Flouri, Alexey Kozlov, Kassian …

Congratulations Xiaofeng Yu
We would like to congratulate Xiaofeng Yu who successfully defended his PhD thesis today! Congratulations! The whole MCM group wishes him …

Rescuing Proteins from Collapse
One of the cornerstones of structural biology envisions that the structure of a molecule is tightly related to its function. The …

HITS at Explore Science
This content is only available in German. Bewegungen gibt es überall. Wir hüpfen und laufen, Vögel fliegen, Wasser und …

International Symposium on Energy System Optimization – ISESO 2015
On November 9 and 10, 2015, ISESO takes place at Studio Villa Bosch in Heidelberg, organized by HITS, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Heidelberg …

ERC President at HITS
Prof. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, President of the European Research Council since 2013, visited Heidelberg and met with ERC Grant winners at HITS. HITS …

Research that gets under the skin: HITS involved in new DFG Program
A new Priority Program of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) focuses on our biggest organ – the skin. The program …