
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 …

Revisiting star formation in the era of big data
HITS group leader Kai Polsterer selected member of an international team at the International Space Science Institute Kai Polsterer, head of …

How can a surface guide centriole assembly?
Centrioles are cell organelles with a cylindrical shape and a 9-fold radially symmetric architecture. They play a role in the formation …

“TULIPS” lets astronomy flourish in the classroom
HITS researcher Eva Laplace has developed a software that visualizes the evolution of stars in short movies. For this project that …

Congratulations Florian Franz
We would like to congratulate Florian Franz who successfully defended his PhD thesis last week! Congratulations! The whole MBM group wishes …

Printing fuel cell membranes: Simulations of shear thinning in Nafion
Fuel cells offer a promising energy generation alternative for a wide range of technologies thanks to their ecological friendliness and unparalleled …

Paper accepted at NeurIPS 2021!
Federico López, NLP group PhD candidate, is the first author of a paper that was accepted as a spotlight paper …

Searching for a way out of the brain fog caused by COVID-19
HITS is a partner in the new EU-funded research program “BRAVE” that proposes tackling COVID-19 brain inflammation with computer-designed molecules. The …

Woman in Science
Svenja de Buhr is a doctoral researcher in the MBM group and today one of the protagonists in the video series “…

It’s in the DNA: sequence recognition by the linker histone
Using single-pair FRET (Fluorescence/Förster Resonance Energy Transfer) spectroscopy and computational modeling, Madhura De, researcher in the Molecular and Cellular …