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 …
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 …
Issue 4 | 2020
Canadian science journalist and author Siobhan Roberts is the current “Journalist in Residence” at HITS. In spite of the Corona crisis, …
Why scientists should be on twitter
Twitter has been around since 2006 and currently has around 330 million active users (as of October 2020) making it one of the most …
HITSters can bike!
Overall, 10 HITSters participated in the nationwide competition “Stadtradeln” (City Cycling Challenge) to show that we can navigate through daily life easily …
Women in academia during the COVID-19 pandemic
Last month, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) organized a virtual conference on “The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on women …
Issue 3 | 2020
HITS welcomes the new group leader Saskia Hekker at the institute. The astrophysicist and her new HITS group are trying to …
Uncovering the structure of stars
Astrophysicist Saskia Hekker is the leader of the new research group “Theory and Observations of Stars” at HITS and professor in …
A difficult task: Phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 data
Computer scientists from HITS and KIT review the challenges for phylogenetic methods in analyzing the evolution of the corona virus: Large …
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