Machine Learning & Protein Research: Markus Meuwly at the HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium
On 16 December 2024, Markus Meuwly from the University of Basel, Department of Chemistry, Basel (Switzerland), gave a joint HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium on “Computational …
      
  New Scientific Director: Kai Polsterer
As of January 2025, Kai Polsterer is the new Scientific Director of the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS). As the position …
      
  Season’s Greetings
While many of our international students have returned home to their families abroad, other HITSters are staying to celebrate the festive …
      
  Frauke Gräter: “I will miss HITS.”
After fifteen years at HITS, group leader Frauke Gräter will leave the institute at the end of the year. As …
      
  Victoria Stodden to receive Humboldt Research Award
Victoria Stodden, statistician and associate professor at the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of …
      
  Honors for HITS group leaders at the KIT “Ehrenabend“
At the “Ehrenabend des Präsidenten” (“Honorary Evening of the President”) in late November, the leadership of the Karlsruhe Institute of …
      
  Jackson Ryan to be “Journalist in Residence” at HITS
The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies gives science journalists the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of computer-based, data-driven science with a …
      
  Issue 4 | 2024
You live and learn. This is why we attended one of the largest conferences for German science journalism (Wissenswerte). Not only …
      
  Felicitas Mokler – Journalist in Residence 2024
German science journalist and author Felicitas Mokler was the 12th “Journalist in Residence” at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS). …
      
  Biodiversity research and Phylogenetic trees: “Highly Cited Researcher“ at HITS
For nine years running, computer scientist Alexandros Stamatakis from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) has been identified as one …