Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)
Alexandros Stamatakis is a distinguished academic currently serving as the Research Group Leader and Full Professor of Computer Science at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies since October 2010. In addition to this role, Alexandros holds a full professorship at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Alexandros has previously worked as a Junior Research Group Leader at TU Munich and the University of Munich, funded by the Emmy-Noether Program of the DFG, and has conducted postdoctoral research in computational molecular evolution at EPFL and ICS-FORTH. Alexandros earned a PhD and a Diploma in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich, complemented by a Licence en Informatique from École normale supérieure de Lyon and an Abitur from Deutsche Schule Athen.
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Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)
The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) was established in 2010 by the physicist and SAP co-founder Klaus Tschira (1940-2015) and the Klaus Tschira Foundation as a private, non-profit research institute. HITS conducts basic research in the natural sciences, mathematics, and computer science, with a focus on the processing, structuring, and analyzing large amounts of data. The research fields range from molecular biology to astrophysics. The shareholders of HITS are the HITS Stiftung, which is a subsidiary of the Klaus Tschira Foundation, Heidelberg University and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). HITS also cooperates with other universities and research institutes and with industrial partners. The base funding of HITS is provided by the HITS Stiftung with funds received from the Klaus Tschira Foundation. The primary external funding agencies are the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the German Research Foundation (DFG), and the European Union.