New Scientific Director: Frauke Gräter
As of January 2021, Frauke Gräter is the new Scientific Director of HITS. As the position of Scientific Director rotates through …
Season’s Greetings!
We had looked forward to this year with great anticipation because on 1 January 2020 HITS celebrated its 10th birthday. Therefore we invited …
Radicals in collagen and the sound of the stars: ERC Consolidator Grants for two HITS researchers
The biophysicist Frauke Gräter and the astrophysicist Saskia Hekker have won ERC Consolidator Grants awarded by the European Research Council (…
Measuring the true scale of the Universe
The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) is a beneficiary of the ERC Synergy Grant “UniverScale”. An international research team from …
Issue 4 | 2020
Canadian science journalist and author Siobhan Roberts is the current “Journalist in Residence” at HITS. In spite of the Corona crisis, …
Why scientists should be on twitter
Twitter has been around since 2006 and currently has around 330 million active users (as of October 2020) making it one of the most …
HITSters can bike!
Overall, 10 HITSters participated in the nationwide competition “Stadtradeln” (City Cycling Challenge) to show that we can navigate through daily life easily …
Siobhan Roberts named “Journalist in Residence” at HITS
The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) gives science journalists the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of computer-based, data-driven science with …
Women in academia during the COVID-19 pandemic
Last month, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) organized a virtual conference on “The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on women …
Anna Wienhard appointed new Scientific Chairperson of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
The mathematician Anna Wienhard, HITS group leader and professor at Heidelberg University, will be the new Scientific Chairperson of the Heidelberg …
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