
Siobhan Roberts – Journalist in Residence 2020
The Canadian science journalist and author Siobhan Roberts was the HITS “Journalist in Residence” 2020. Siobhan Roberts has worked as a freelance …

Exploring the evolution of stars
Fabian Schneider leads the new research group “Stellar Evolution Theory” (SET) at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS). The astrophysicist …

15th Würzburg workshop on Astrophysics 2020 at HITS
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual winter workshop organized by the Physics of Stellar Objects (PSO) group at HITS had …

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 …

DFG funds HITS research on SARS CoV-2 spike glycoprotein
The SARS-CoV2 virus is notorious for its characteristic spike protein that helps the virus to invade cells. Rebecca Wade and the …

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, …

Mapping the uncertainty: COVID-19 forecasts
Researchers from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a web platform …