
Issue 3 | 2021
The astrophysicist Fabian Schneider, head of the junior group “Stellar Evolution Theory” (SET) at HITS, has been awarded the “Ludwig-Biermann-Förderpreis” …

“Test of Time Award” for HITS researcher
Alexandros Stamatakis, group leader at HITS and professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), has received the “Test of Time …

NCT-Run 2021: Team “The HITSters” runs beyond the limits
The HITS running team “The HITSters” participated for the fourth time in the NCT charity run in Heidelberg. On 2-4 July 2021, …

Biomedisa – an open-source online platform for biomedical image segmentation
In many scientific disciplines, the key to extracting meaningful information from large three-dimensional images, obtained from X-ray tomography or optical microscopy, …

Astronomy Award for HITS researcher Fabian Schneider
Astrophysicist Fabian Schneider, head of the junior group “Stellar Evolution Theory” (SET) at HITS, has received the Ludwig Biermann Award of …

City Cycling 2021: Mud, sweat and gears
They did it again – and this time they joined forces with colleagues across the Klaus Tschira Foundation: The HITS cycling team 2021 …

Build your collagen fibril!
Obtain your atomistic collagen fibril models with ColBuilder! We have now published a web resource of collagen models for 20 different species …

Computational Oncology: Exploring the origin of Colon Cancer
Colon cancer is one of the most common cancers in men and women worldwide. Due to the microscopic size of the …

FDA – detect and follow force in proteins
Force distribution analysis (FDA) is a method to detect and follow force and stress propagation in proteins, reminiscent of Finite Element …

KIMMDY – a hybrid approach for Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation
The simulation scheme called KIMMDY (Kinetic Monte Carlo / Molecular Dynamics) enables covalent bond breakages in all-atom Molecular …