
Young Researcher´s award goes to HITS doctoral student
Mehmet Ali Öztürk, PhD student at HITS and at the Hartmut Hoffmann-Berling International Graduate School of Molecular and Cellular Biology (…

Against the odds: Indian science and science journalism (plus video)
T.V. Padma (Delhi / India), science journalist and HITS Journalist in Residence 2017, will speak about the challenges and chances for scientists …

Nacre in the supercomputer
HITSter Frauke Gräter wins the 2nd PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC Serge Bogaerts, Managing Director of PRACE aisbl is …

The Forecaster’s Dilemma: Evaluating forecasts of extreme events
Accurate predictions of extreme events do not necessarily indicate the scientific superiority of the forecaster or the forecast method from which …

The Dark Side of Natural Language Processing
At the first “Ethics in Natural Language Processing” workshop in Valencia, scientists discussed the opportunities and dangers of automatic speech analysis. …

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 (…

New species discovered: Protist parasites contribute to the stability of rainforest ecosystems
Tropical rainforests are one of the most species-rich areas on earth. Thousands of animal and plant species live there. The smaller …

“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 “…

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 …