Newsletter

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

You live and learn. This is why we attended one of the largest conferences for German science journalism (Wissenswerte). Not only …

On 13 July 2024, HITS opened its doors to the public again and welcomed more than 500 visitors. The program titled “Weather, viruses and …

Mechanobiology studies how cells can sense and respond to mechanical forces.  Together with two colleagues, HITS group leader Frauke Gräter …

At HITS, artificial intelligence (AI) is not a current trend, but a long-established practice: Several groups have been working with machine …

What makes a planet habitable? How do you keep it habitable, how do you develop life, and what strategic decisions put …

This summer, we celebrated a special event: the first onsite meeting with our alumni in four years, intertwined with a “Math …

We are happy to continue the success story of grants awarded by the European Research Council (ERC): PSO group leader Friedrich …

This spring, a special project is blossoming: SIMPLAIX, a collaboration of HITS with Heidelberg University and the KIT. The three partner …

Fall is the season of the harvest, and at HITS it´s particularly abundant this year: Alexandros Stamatakis, head of the …