Backing Exceptional People
At NOMIS, research is never separate from the person pursuing it. The right question needs the right mind: someone with the courage to challenge assumptions, the discipline to work through uncertainty and the imagination to connect ideas that may not usually meet. Scientific excellence is the starting point. Beyond excellence, we look for originality, independence, openness to new ideas, a pioneering spirit, a collaborative capacity and the ability to inspire others. We support researchers not only for what they have already achieved, but also for what they still have the courage to explore. NOMIS backs exceptional people whose questions have the potential to transform entire fields.
Our community of pioneering researchers
Awardees
Driven by curiosity: NOMIS Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Awardees are pioneering researchers whose bold questions and groundbreaking discoveries open new fields and transform our understanding of the world.
Grantees
Exceptional investigators: NOMIS grantees are dedicated researchers who challenge the status quo with their novel approaches and perspectives, bridging academic disciplines.
Professors
Innovative leaders: NOMIS professors are leading scientists recognized for their excellence in research and teaching. They pursue fundamental interdisciplinary questions about nature, the mind and society.
Fellows
Emerging researchers: NOMIS Fellows are early-career researchers who use novel approaches and fresh perspectives to connect the ordinary with the unexpected.
Explorers
Cross-disciplinary collaborators: NOMIS & Science Young Explorers are bold, early-career scientists working at the intersection of the life and social sciences.
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Richa Singh is a NOMIS–STRI Fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama. Studying crickets, mosquitoes and dragonflies, her research is united by a single guiding question: How does an animal's sensory world shape the way it communicates, makes decisions and interacts with other organisms?
NOMIS Fellow
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Raphael J. Morscher is an attending physician in pediatric oncology at the University Children's Hospital Zurich and group leader in Pediatric Cancer Metabolism at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is co-leading the project Deciphering Dynamic Systems in Childhood.
Attending physician in pediatric oncology
University Children's Hospital Zurich
About Ruggero Valli Ruggero Valli is a NOMIS–ISTA Fellow at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), working with the research groups of Ylva Götberg (Massive Binary Stars) and Jorryt Matthee (Astrophysics of Galaxies). Valli studied physics and astrophysics at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where he obtained an MS in 2022. He then completed […]
NOMIS Fellow
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
Amalia Victoria Ceballos González
Amalia Victoria Ceballos González is a NOMIS–STRI Fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama. She is a Colombian biologist who earned her Licenciatura in Biology from Universidad Pedagógica Nacional.
NOMIS Fellow
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Christian Perez-Martinez is a NOMIS–STRI Fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Gamboa, Panama.
NOMIS Fellow
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Elizabeth Broadbent is a NOMIS–Collegium Helveticum Senior Fellow and a professor in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
NOMIS Senior Fellow
Collegium Helveticum
Scott Edwards is a NOMIS–Collegium Helveticum Senior Fellow and the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Curator of Ornithology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, US.
NOMIS Senior Fellow
Collegium Helveticum
Łukasz Stanek is a NOMIS–Collegium Helveticum Senior Fellow and a professor at the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, US.
NOMIS Senior Fellow
Collegium Helveticum
About Hans Gersbach Hans Gersbach is a professor at ETH Zurich and codirector of the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. He is leading the project Trustworthy AI Voting Assistants and Supported Democracy. Gersbach studied at the University of Basel in Switzerland, where he received degrees in mathematics, actuarial science and economics, […]
Professor
KOF Swiss Economic Institute
Andrew Gonzalez is a 2026 NOMIS Awardee, professor and Liber Ero Chair in Biodiversity Conservation at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, as well as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is leading the project A Mesoscale Theory of the Biosphere.
Professor and Liber Ero Chair in Biodiversity Conservation
McGill University
About Tobias Kippenberg Tobias Kippenberg is a 2026 NOMIS Awardee and a full professor of physics and electrical engineering in the Institute of Physics and Electrical Engineering at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is leading the project The Quest for Ultralow Dissipation: From Self-Organized Light to Collective Quantum Drums. Kippenberg studied physics and electrical engineering […]
Full professor of physics and electrical engineering
EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne)
About Ulrike Malmendier Ulrike Malmendier is the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Finance at the Haas School of Business, and a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, US. She is leading the project Stress and Economics — Exploring the Alleviating Role of Predictability and Controllability. Malmendier earned an MA in economics in […]
Cora Jane Flood Professor of Finance and professor of economics
University of California, Berkeley
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