Frauke Gräter Appointed Director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
After fifteen years at the Institute, HITS group leader Frauke Gräter will be new Director at the Max Planck Institute …
Digital babies created to improve infant healthcare
Researchers at University of Galway, the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) Heidelberg University, and Heidelberg University Hospital have created digital …
Rebecca Wade appointed member of the CECAM Scientific Advisory Committee
HITS group leader Rebecca Wade (Molecular and Cellular Modeling group) has been named a member of the CECAM Scientific Advisory Committee. …
Issue 2 | 2024
Mechanobiology studies how cells can sense and respond to mechanical forces. Together with two colleagues, HITS group leader Frauke Gräter …
Felicitas Mokler named HITS “Journalist in Residence”
The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies gives science journalists the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of computer-based, data-driven science with a …
Stretched beyond the limits of the cell: the molecular biomechanics of collagen
HITS researcher Frauke Gräter receives an HFSP Research Grant Award for a project on a novel form of mechanosensing. Together …
2nd SIMPLAIX Workshop: Thanks to all participants!
A big thank you to all the speakers and participants for making the 2nd SIMPLAIX Workshop on “Machine Learning for Multiscale …
Do we really understand catalysis? Michele Parrinello at the HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium
On 22 April 2024, Michele Parrinnello from the Italian Institute of Technology, Genova (Italy) gave a joint HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium on the recent developments …
Uncovering the complexity of collagen
Debora Monego, PostDoc in the Molecular Biomechanics (MBM) Group at HITS, has been awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship (…
HITS researcher Sebastian Lerch appointed ECMWF Fellow
Sebastian Lerch, junior research group leader at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and visiting scientist in the Computational Statistics (CST) …