
Computer simulations and Artificial Intelligence – a “booster” for molecular research
In the new “SIMPLAIX” collaboration, researchers from HITS, Heidelberg University, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are addressing challenges in the …

PFVG – A novel probabilistic approach to separate galaxy from nuclear contribution in quasars
Quasars are considered the most energetic galaxies in the universe. Their main energy source is a supermassive black hole at the …

Issue 1 | 2022
This year began with tremendously good news: Ganna Gryn’ova, head of the Computational Carbon Chemistry (CCC) group, was selected to …

“Something in the way they move” – zooming in on cell migration
Getting from A to B can be a tricky business, especially for cells on the move. An international team of researchers …

Paper accepted at ACL 2022!
PhD student Sungho Jeon and NLP group leader Michael Strube got a paper accepted at this years ACL, one of the …

Research positions at HITS for scientists from Ukraine
The war in Ukraine is causing a humanitarian catastrophe. At HITS we are particularly concerned about the safety and wellbeing of …

HITS helps ESCAPE improve their data discoverability with machine learning
ESCAPE, the European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle Physics ESFRI Research Infrastructures, has successfully tested new machine learning prototypes that …

HITS NLP goes Linguistics!
Members of the NLP group will have two presentations at the upcoming workshop Word formation and discourse structure at the Department …

New Position: acting group leader in the MBM group
As of January 2022, Camilo Aponte-Santamaría has been appointed acting group leader of the Molecular Biomechanics group (MBM). In this newly …

Carl Smith 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 …