NOMIS Professors
To build a future of continuous discovery, we must champion today’s scientific leaders while educating tomorrow’s visionaries. NOMIS professors are leading scholars recognized for their exceptional commitment to both groundbreaking research and transformative teaching. We support these leaders by funding dedicated positions at world-class partner institutions, providing them the freedom to pursue fundamental, interdisciplinary questions about nature, the mind and society. By cultivating environments where bold ideas thrive, NOMIS professors advance new areas of study and actively mentor the next generation of pioneering scientists.
NOMIS professors
Thomas Graeber is the NOMIS Professor of Cognitive and Neuroeconomics at the University of Zurich (Switzerland).
Professor of Cognitive and Neuroeconomics
University of Zurich
About Jacob Corn Jacob Corn is the Professor of Genome Biology at ETH Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland). In addition to the professorship, he is leading the Unbiased Discovery of Heterogeneous DNA Repair Preferences project. Corn earned a BS in biology from the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, US) in 2001 and a PhD in molecular and […]
Professor of Genome Biology
ETH Zurich
About Martin Pilhofer Martin Pilhofer is Professor of Cryo-Electron Microscopy at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). Born in Germany, Pilhofer studied biology at the University of Bayreuth (Germany) and at the Technical University of Munich (TUM; Germany). He completed his PhD in microbiology with Karl-Heinz Schleifer at the TUM. From 2008 to 2013, he joined Grant Jensen’s […]
Professor of Cryo-Electron Microscopy
ETH Zurich
NOMIS professorships
By establishing dedicated positions at world-class partner institutions, NOMIS professorships help advance interdisciplinary study and champion the education of the next generation of scientists.
