
Facts instead of Fake News: HITS supports the “March for Science”
The international “March for Science” will take place on April 22nd, 2017. Demonstrations are currently planned in more than 400 cities worldwide in …

HITS researcher Christoph Pfrommer is new professor at the AIP Potsdam
As of April 1, 2017, the astrophysicist is leading the research group Cosmology and Large-scale Structure at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (…

Simulated Universes
Volker Springel elected to the German Academy of Sciences “Leopoldina”. Presentation of the membership certificate in Halle, Germany Volker Springel, head …

“Journalist in Residence”: T.V. Padma at HITS
Science journalist T.V. Padma from Delhi, India, has begun her stay at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) as “…

New Scientific Director: Michael Strube
As of January 2017, Prof. Dr. Michael Strube is the new Scientific Director (“Institutssprecher”) of HITS. As the position of Scientific Director …

Season´s Greetings
Dear friends and colleagues, As we come to the end of an eventful and turbulent year, we and all the HITSters …

Three “Highly Cited Researchers” at HITS
In this year’s ranking of “Highly Cited Researchers”, three HITS scientists are named among the most cited researchers worldwide: Tilmann …

HITS is New Associate Partner of CompBioMed Project
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), represented by its Molecular and Cellular Modeling Group (MCM), led by Professor Rebecca Wade, has …

On YouTube: LERU Doctoral Summer School, Leiden 2016
Mehmet Öztürk, PhD student from Molecular and Cellular Modeling (MCM) group recently participated in the 2016 LERU Doctoral Summer School held …

Gliese Fellow Markus Kromer joins HITS
In October 2016, Dr. Markus Kromer joined the Physics of Stellar Objects (PSO) research group at HITS as a visiting scientist. Markus …