
NOMIS–eikones Fellowship Program
For over a decade, eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel, Switzerland, has been dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of images as instruments of human knowledge and cultural practice. Eikones has been examining the functions and epistemological value of images in different social, aesthetic and scientific contexts. Images are not merely understood as tools that complete certain tasks, but instead as systems of representation that differ from linguistic or mathematical systems because of their particular structure; they thus produce specific forms of knowledge.
The NOMIS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at eikones supports groundbreaking research projects related to how images act as models or paradigms in scientific and aesthetic contexts. In both settings, images often assume an exemplary character, aiding epistemic and learning processes. They fulfill evidential, didactic and symbolic functions, and thereby produce different forms of knowledge. Relevant topics of research might consider, for example, the history and theory of imaging techniques in the natural sciences; the ideals and stereotypes that shape social contexts and political discussions; or the formation and dissolution of canons, iconographies, character types and styles in the arts. On the methodological side, the NOMIS Fellows will be selected from different scientific fields, and reflect on the relationship between their individual discipline and image studies.
The NOMIS fellowships at eikones are being supervised by Markus Klammer and Ralph Ubl.

PARTNERSHIP with eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
NOMIS–eikones Fellowship Program
NOMIS FELLOWS
Jeremy Melius
NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
Ruth Ezra
NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
Mario Schulze
NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
Friederike Zenker
Research associate
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
Sebastian Zeidler
Former NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
Ingrid Vendrell-Ferran
Former NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
Zeynep Gürsel
Former NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
Sean Silver
Former NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
Philipp Ekardt
Former NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
Tobias Wilke
Former NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
Nancy Thebaut
Former NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
Gabriele Ferretti
Former NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
Jakub Stejskal
Former NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
Seth Barry Watter
Former NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
Olga Shevchenko
Former NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
Oksana Sarkisova
Former NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
Anna Vallye
Former NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
Anna Skarpelis
Former NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
Lior Levy
Former NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
Molly Warnock
Former NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel
Anne-Katrin Weber
Former NOMIS Fellow
eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel