Guillermo Carbrera-Vives. Klaus Tschira Guest Professor 2024/25

Guillermo Cabrera-Vives

26. February 2025

Klaus Tschira Guest Professor, September 2024 – March 2025 “I admire the way how research is done here,” Guillermo Cabrera-Vives wraps up his first …

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A synthetic peptide based on the natural protein S100A1,

Therapeutic Designer Peptide to Combat Acute Heart Muscle Weakness

12. February 2025

Researchers of the Heidelberg University, Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) and Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) have developed a synthetic peptide …

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Registration now open: 3rd SIMPLAIX Workshop on “Machine Learning for Multiscale Molecular Modeling”

4. February 2025

The 3rd SIMPLAIX Workshop on “Machine Learning for Multiscale Molecular Modeling” will take place in the Studio Villa Bosch in Heidelberg …

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New Scientific Director: Kai Polsterer

2. January 2025

As of January 2025, Kai Polsterer is the new Scientific Director of the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS). As the position …

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Frauke Gräter: “I will miss HITS.”

19. December 2024

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

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Victoria Stodden, Member of the HITS SAB

Victoria Stodden to receive Humboldt Research Award

18. December 2024

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

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Honors for HITS group leaders at the KIT “Ehrenabend“

11. December 2024

At the “Ehrenabend des Präsidenten” (“Honorary Evening of the President”) in late November, the leadership of the Karlsruhe Institute of …

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Biodiversity research and Phylogenetic trees: “Highly Cited Researcher“ at HITS

20. November 2024

For nine years running, computer scientist Alexandros Stamatakis from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) has been identified as one …

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Polysaccharides on Cells: Accomplices in SARS-CoV-2 infection

17. October 2024

An international team of scientists in Germany and Italy have published new findings on how specific polysaccharides act as accomplices in …

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GFKIT: Memoization for faster computations on genealogical forests

30. September 2024

The field of population genetics attempts to advance our understanding of evolutionary processes. It has applications, for example, in medical research, …

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