News

What´s new at HITS? On this page you can find the latest news from and about HITS, including the latest scientific discoveries, personal achievements by our researchers or general changes at HITS.

τRAMD – compute protein-ligand dissociation rates and explore dissociation mechanisms

4. November 2021

Researchers from the Molecular and Cellular Modeling (MCM) group at HITS have developed and validated τRAMD (τ-Random Acceleration Molecular Dynamics),an …

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SDA7 – Brownian Dynamics Simulations of Proteins

4. November 2021

Researchers from the Molecular and Cellular Modeling (MCM) group at HITS are developing the software “Simulation of Diffusional Association” (SDA) 7. …

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Paper accepted at NeurIPS 2021!

19. October 2021

Federico López, NLP group PhD candidate, is the first author of a paper that was accepted as a spotlight paper …

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Searching for a way out of the brain fog caused by COVID-19

1. October 2021

HITS is a partner in the new EU-funded research program “BRAVE” that proposes tackling COVID-19 brain inflammation with computer-designed molecules. The …

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More than the sum of its parts: Combining models to improve COVID-19 forecasts

29. September 2021

Soon after the beginning of the pandemic, researchers from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and the Karlsruhe Institute of …

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Woman in Science

23. September 2021

Svenja de Buhr is a doctoral researcher in the MBM group and today one of the protagonists in the video series “…

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It’s in the DNA: sequence recognition by the linker histone

23. September 2021

Using single-pair FRET (Fluorescence/Förster Resonance Energy Transfer) spectroscopy and computational modeling, Madhura De, researcher in the Molecular and Cellular …

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HiFlow³ – Software module development for Finite Element simulation

22. September 2021

HiFlow³ is a multi-purpose finite element software providing powerful tools for efficient and accurate solution of a wide range of problems …

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HITSters will be part of new faculty at Heidelberg University

22. September 2021

Heidelberg University has founded the Faculty of Engineering Sciences to pool competences for innovative engineering approaches with international visibility. HITS researchers …

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Issue 3 | 2021

14. September 2021

The astrophysicist Fabian Schneider, head of the junior group “Stellar Evolution Theory” (SET) at HITS, has been awarded the “Ludwig-Biermann-Förderpreis” …

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