
Frauke Gräter: “I will miss HITS.”
After fifteen years at HITS, group leader Frauke Gräter will leave the institute at the end of the year. As …

Victoria Stodden to receive Humboldt Research Award
Victoria Stodden, statistician and associate professor at the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of …

Honors for HITS group leaders at the KIT “Ehrenabend“
At the “Ehrenabend des Präsidenten” (“Honorary Evening of the President”) in late November, the leadership of the Karlsruhe Institute of …

Biodiversity research and Phylogenetic trees: “Highly Cited Researcher“ at HITS
For nine years running, computer scientist Alexandros Stamatakis from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) has been identified as one …

Polysaccharides on Cells: Accomplices in SARS-CoV-2 infection
An international team of scientists in Germany and Italy have published new findings on how specific polysaccharides act as accomplices in …

GFKIT: Memoization for faster computations on genealogical forests
The field of population genetics attempts to advance our understanding of evolutionary processes. It has applications, for example, in medical research, …

We congratulate: Poster award for Denis!
Denis Kiesewetter received the “Best Poster Award” at the CZS Summer School 2024: “Machine Learning for Chemistry” for his poster titled “Incorporating …

Special issue: Exploring the chemical compound space with cutting-edge research tools
Targeted and efficient exploration of the vast chemical space in search of new and improved molecules and materials with artificial intelligence …

ChatGPT & Co: Why we shouldn’t blindly trust generative AI
Outreach talk by HITS group leader Jan Stuehmer on how facts are stored in Large Language Models At the “Open Day” 2024, …

Solving Biological Puzzles with Computer Simulations
Outreach talk by HITS scientist Debora Monego about using computer simulations in protein research At the “Open Day” 2024, HITS scientist Debora …