Antonis Rokas
Klaus Tschira Guest Professor, June – September 2022 He steps out onto the terrace and enjoys the view of the garden, which is …
Holding on to letting go – the Power of Bonds in Cell Stability
Two-component adhesives are a brilliant invention. Scientists at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) have found that the principle behind …
The Universal Sound of Black Holes
They are mysterious, exciting and inescapable – black holes are some of the most exotic objects in the Universe. With gravitational-wave detectors, …
New SIMPLAIX PI: Tristan Bereau
Computational physicist Tristan Bereau, professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University, has been appointed new Principal Investigator in the …
Anya’s author profile in Helvetica Chimica Acta
Read Anya’s thoughts on the challenges and future of computational chemistry, find out why she became a computational chemist, and …
The sacrifice within – how collagen’s weak bonds help protect tissue
HITS researchers publish new findings on collagen, the most abundant protein in our body: So-called “sacrificial bonds” in collagen break faster …
Tools for molecular design
On 21-23 June 2023, two workshops on Brain research took place at the Mathematikon, Heidelberg University: The second HBPMolSIM training workshop on …
New representation for chemical machine learning
Stiv’s quantum-inspired representation for chemical machine learning entitled matrix of orthogonalised atomic orbital coefficients (MAOC) is published in the Special …
Richard Schwartz
Divide and Conquer: 5 Point Energy Minimization Thomson’s classic problem asks, for any N, which configurations of N points on …
Steve Trettel
Geometry from the Inside Geometry is one of the oldest ongoing projects of humanity, with an unbroken chain of deep thought …