
Anya’s author profile in Helvetica Chimica Acta
Read Anya’s thoughts on the challenges and future of computational chemistry, find out why she became a computational chemist, and …

HITS: Call for “Journalist in Residence” in 2024
Call for 2024: HITS Journalist in Residence program open for applications. Deadline: 28 September 2023

A special honor for a splendid scientist
Former HITS group leader Anna Wienhard received recognition as a “HITS Fellow”, the highest distinction that the institute awards. The award …

The sacrifice within – how collagen’s weak bonds help protect tissue
HITS researchers publish new findings on collagen, the most abundant protein in our body: So-called “sacrificial bonds” in collagen break faster …

Tools for molecular design
On 21-23 June 2023, two workshops on Brain research took place at the Mathematikon, Heidelberg University: The second HBPMolSIM training workshop on …

New representation for chemical machine learning
Stiv‘s quantum-inspired representation for chemical machine learning entitled matrix of orthogonalised atomic orbital coefficients (MAOC) is published in the Special …

ChatGPT and its ilk
The rise of large language models and why we should care: talk by Anil Ananthaswamy, science journalist (USA/India), HITS Journalist …

Issue 2 | 2023
We are happy to continue the success story of grants awarded by the European Research Council (ERC): PSO group leader Friedrich …

Richard Schwartz
Divide and Conquer: 5 Point Energy Minimization Thomson’s classic problem asks, for any N, which configurations of N points on …

Steve Trettel
Geometry from the Inside Geometry is one of the oldest ongoing projects of humanity, with an unbroken chain of deep thought …