Time for a Change: EML Research will be HITS

In January 2010 the “Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies” will be established – It succeeds “EML Research” as institute of the Klaus Tschira Foundation

Heidelberg. With the new year approaching, EML Research gGmbH, the research institute of the Klaus Tschira Foundation, will change its name: From January 1st, 2010, HITS (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies) will be established. As EML Research before, HITS will concentrate on basic research in data-driven fields, with huge amounts of data to be processed and structured. It will continue and substantially extend the successful scientific agenda of EML Research. HITS will accommodate about 10 research groups from various fields of the natural sciences, including Mathematics and Computer Science. It will be a highly inter-disciplinary organization, and is intended to closely collaborate with research labs world-wide.

The first new HITS group in Theoretical Astrophysics will start to work in spring 2010. Group leader Volker Springel, coming from Max-Planck-Institute in Garching, will then be also professor for Astrophysics at the University of Heidelberg.

Through the year 2010, HITS will move to a building in immediate neighborhood of the Villa Bosch, home of the Klaus Tschira Foundation. Managing directors will be Klaus Tschira and Andreas Reuter.

More Information:
Dr. Peter Saueressig
EML Research gGmbH
Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33
69118 Heidelberg
Telefon: +49 6221 – 533 – 245
Fax: +49 6221 – 533 – 198
Email: peter.saueressig@h-its.org