
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 …

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 …

On Machine Learning and disordered materials: Volker Deringer at the HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium
On 23 October 2023, Volker Deringer from University of Oxford gave a joint HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium on machine-learning-driven advances in modeling and understanding disordered …

New SIMPLAIX PI: Jan Stühmer
Computer scientist Jan Stühmer, group leader at HITS and Junior professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), has been …

Registration now open: 2nd SIMPLAIX Workshop on “Machine Learning for Multiscale Molecular Modeling”
The 2nd SIMPLAIX Workshop on “Machine Learning for Multiscale Molecular Modeling” will take place in the Studio Villa Bosch in Heidelberg …

New observations confirm computer models how massive stars are born as multiples
Astrophysicists have predicted the multiplicity of massive star births for a long time. But so far, there was little observational evidence …

EBRAINS research infrastructure secures €38 million in funding for new phase of digital neuroscience
The European Commission has accepted the EBRAINS 2.0 proposal submitted in response to the INFRASERV call, granting €38 million for the further development …

With AI towards new cardiac drugs
In a recently published perspective (“Aktuelle Kardiologie” 2023; 12(06): 450 – 458), researchers in the “Molecular and Cellular Modeling” group at HITS and the “Section of …

Phylogenetic trees and biodiversity research: “Highly Cited Researcher“ at HITS
For eight years running, computer scientist Alexandros Stamatakis from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) has been named one of …

Anil Ananthaswamy – Journalist in Residence 2023
Indian-American science journalist and author Anil Ananthaswamy was the 11th “Journalist in Residence” at the Heidelberg Institute for …