
Excellence Strategy: HITS researchers successful with two clusters on astrophysics and life sciences
How do stellar explosions or the evolution of galaxies influence our universe today? How can synthetic biology and specially designed …

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

PAL: Parallel Active Learning – automated, modular, and parallel active learning workflow
See more here: https://github.com/aimat-lab/PAL

Exploring the history of bacteria evolution
In a new study published in “Science”, an international team of scientists presents a reconstruction of the evolution of Earth’s …

New Klaus Tschira Guest Professor at HITS
HITS welcomes Swiss-British astrophysicist Raphael Hirschi as the 6th Klaus Tschira Guest Professor at the Institute. He has been Professor of …

Generating Highly Designable Proteins with Geometric Algebra Flow Matching
Generating structurally diverse and physically realizable protein backbones remains one of the grand challenges in protein design. We propose a generative …

Manfred Fuchs Prize for SIMPLAIX researcher
Congratulations to our SIMPLAIX Principal Investigator Pascal Friederich (KIT) on the award of the Manfred Fuchs Prize 2025 for his outstanding research …

Save the date: Max Bonomi at the HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium
On 21 July 2025, Max Bonomi, Institut Pasteur, Paris (France) will give a joint HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium (hybrid) talk at the Studio Villa Bosch, …

Protein Dyamics & Machine Learning: Cecilia Clementi at the HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium
On 10 February 2025, Cecilia Clementi, Einstein Professor , Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) gave a joint HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium on “Modeling …

Issue 1 | 2025
HITS kicked off the new year with a change in the scientific leadership. Since January 2025, physicist and computer scientist Kai Polsterer …