Raphael Hirschi, Klaus Tschira Guest Professor 2025

New Klaus Tschira Guest Professor at HITS

15. April 2025

HITS welcomes Swiss-British astrophysicist Raphael Hirschi as the 6th Klaus Tschira Guest Professor at the Institute. He has been Professor of …

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Manfred Fuchs Prize for SIMPLAIX researcher

14. April 2025

Congratulations to our SIMPLAIX Principal Investigator Pascal Friederich (KIT) on the award of the Manfred Fuchs Prize 2025 for his outstanding research …

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Issue 1 | 2025

18. March 2025

HITS kicked off the new year with a change in the scientific leadership. Since January 2025, physicist and computer scientist Kai Polsterer …

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We are hiring! Full Professorship (W3) in “Molecular Biophysics”

10. March 2025

We are seeking an outstanding candidate to lead a research group at HITS and contribute to the research and teaching initiatives …

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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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Season’s Greetings

19. December 2024

While many of our international students have returned home to their families abroad, other HITSters are staying to celebrate the festive …

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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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