Issue 1 | 2023

This spring, a special project is blossoming: SIMPLAIX, a collaboration of HITS with Heidelberg University and the KIT. The three partner institutions are jointly tackling the challenges of simulating biomolecules and molecular materials at different scales. The first results of this collaboration will be presented at the “SIMPLAIX” workshop at Studio Villa Bosch.

A group of young astrophysicists had a prize-worthy idea for the Science Year “Our Universe:” For their board game “Habitable” they were awarded as one of the best 15 communication ideas on the topic of outer space.

A new standardized exchange format for data on enzyme reactions was co-developed by HITS researchers. It provides a seamless communication channel between experimental platforms, electronic lab books, tools, platforms and enzymatic reaction databases.

In our section “Beyond the Limits”, we feature astrophysicist Sarbani Basu (Yale University), who was the second Klaus Tschira Guest Professor at HITS last fall.