
Stretched beyond the limits of the cell: the molecular biomechanics of collagen
HITS researcher Frauke Gräter receives an HFSP Research Grant Award for a project on a novel form of mechanosensing. Together …

2nd SIMPLAIX Workshop: Thanks to all participants!
A big thank you to all the speakers and participants for making the 2nd SIMPLAIX Workshop on “Machine Learning for Multiscale …

Do we really understand catalysis? Michele Parrinello at the HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium
On 22 April 2024, Michele Parrinnello from the Italian Institute of Technology, Genova (Italy) gave a joint HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium on the recent developments …

Uncovering the complexity of collagen
Debora Monego, PostDoc in the Molecular Biomechanics (MBM) Group at HITS, has been awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship (…

HITS researcher Sebastian Lerch appointed ECMWF Fellow
Sebastian Lerch, junior research group leader at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and visiting scientist in the Computational Statistics (CST) …

ERC Advanced Grant for SIMPLAIX-PI Andreas Dreuw
SIMPLAIX-PI Andreas Dreuw (Heidelberg University) received an ERC Advanced Grant for his project “High-Performance Computational Photochemistry and Spectroscopy” (HIPERCOPS). It deals …

A clear view on magnetic stars through a beautiful nebula
An international team of astronomers have solved a stellar mystery utilizing new data from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), and confirm …

Of bantam brains and fancy footwork: bioinformatics tools help reveal complexity of avian evolution
In 2014 the Science journal featured an article on the bird tree of life, mentioning the essential role of algorithms and supercomputers …

Issue 1 | 2024
At HITS, artificial intelligence (AI) is not a current trend, but a long-established practice: Several groups have been working with machine …

EBRAINS Germany established
The European Commission has accepted the EBRAINS 2.0 proposal submitted in response to the INFRASERV call, granting €38 million for the further development …