
A living lab of evolutionary biology
“The Aegean archipelago” is designed to help schoolkids play games to better understand that life forms on Earth have changed over …

DFG Heinz-Maier Leibnitz Prize for SIMPLAIX researcher
Congratulations to our SIMPLAIX Principal Investigator Pascal Friederich (KIT) on the award of a Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2022 for his outstanding research …

“The magic triangle” advances molecular research with machine learning and simulations
The “SIMPLAIX” collaboration started with an inaugural symposium in Heidelberg. Researchers from HITS, Heidelberg University, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (…

Computer simulations and Artificial Intelligence – a “booster” for molecular research
In the new “SIMPLAIX” collaboration, researchers from HITS, Heidelberg University, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are addressing challenges in the …

“Something in the way they move” – zooming in on cell migration
Getting from A to B can be a tricky business, especially for cells on the move. An international team of researchers …

HITS helps ESCAPE improve their data discoverability with machine learning
ESCAPE, the European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle Physics ESFRI Research Infrastructures, has successfully tested new machine learning prototypes that …

New Position: acting group leader in the MBM group
As of January 2022, Camilo Aponte-Santamaría has been appointed acting group leader of the Molecular Biomechanics group (MBM). In this newly …

Carl Smith named “Journalist in Residence” at HITS
The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) gives science journalists the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of computer-based, data-driven science with …

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 …