Digital tools for effective virus research
The “Serratus” cloud-computing infrastructure enables researchers to effectively search public sequence databases for biological viruses. So far, more than 130,000 new RNA …
ERC Starting Grant for HITS group leader
Ganna Gryn’ova, head of the Computational Carbon Chemistry group at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, has been awarded approximately €1.5 …
New Research Project: Mathematical Oncology in Heidelberg
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Heidelberg is working together to develop mathematical modeling to help decipher tumor development in hereditary …
And again: “Highly Cited Researcher“ at HITS
For six years running, computer scientist Alexandros Stamatakis from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) has been named one of …
More than the sum of its parts: Combining models to improve COVID-19 forecasts
Soon after the beginning of the pandemic, researchers from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and the Karlsruhe Institute of …
Computational Oncology: Exploring the origin of Colon Cancer
Colon cancer is one of the most common cancers in men and women worldwide. Due to the microscopic size of the …
The good, the bad, and the spaghetti code: Software put to the test
Computer scientists at HITS and KIT Karlsruhe have developed “SoftWipe”, a largely automated open source tool and benchmark to assess the …
ERC Advanced Grant for HITS group leader
Mathematician Anna Wienhard has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. She is group leader of the associated “Groups and Geometry” group …
How can we rely on AI?
Statisticians from HITS, KIT, and Heidelberg University introduce the new “CORP” approach to better determine the reliability of forecasting methods. CORP …
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 …
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