
Exploring the history of bacteria evolution
In a new study published in “Science”, an international team of scientists presents a reconstruction of the evolution of Earth’s …

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

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

Save the date: Max Bonomi at the HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium
On 21 July 2025, Max Bonomi, Institut Pasteur, Paris (France) will give a joint HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium (hybrid) talk at the Studio Villa Bosch, …

Protein Dyamics & Machine Learning: Cecilia Clementi at the HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium
On 10 February 2025, Cecilia Clementi, Einstein Professor , Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) gave a joint HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium on “Modeling …

Issue 1 | 2025
HITS kicked off the new year with a change in the scientific leadership. Since January 2025, physicist and computer scientist Kai Polsterer …

We are hiring! Full Professorship (W3) in “Molecular Biophysics”
We are seeking an outstanding candidate to lead a research group at HITS and contribute to the research and teaching initiatives …

Generative AI and the Physics of Molecules : Simon Olsson at the HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium
On 27 January 2025, Simon Olsson from the Chalmers University of Technology, Department for Computer Science and Engineering, Gothenburg (Sweden), gave a joint …

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

Therapeutic Designer Peptide to Combat Acute Heart Muscle Weakness
Researchers of the Heidelberg University, Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) and Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) have developed a synthetic peptide …