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Research is the vital expression of humankind’s most important qualities: curiosity and imagination.

Explorers, inventors, pioneers—dedicated researchers on the frontiers of science and the humanities.

Insight, when it comes, changes everything.

The NOMIS community is a multidisciplinary and collaborative network comprising pioneering researchers, scientists, scholars and a dedicated board of directors and management team, all working to advance basic research and create a spark in science.

Robert Ewers

Professor of ecology

  • Imperial College London
Christopher Currin

Former NOMIS Fellow

  • Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
Bernhard Siegert

Gerd Bucerius Professor for the History and Theory of Cultural Techniques

  • Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Tom Griffiths

Henry R. Luce Professor of Information Technology, Consciousness and Culture

  • Princeton University
Nick Netzer

Professor of economics

  • University of Zurich
Philippe Tobler

Associate professor of neuroeconomics and social neuroscience

  • University of Zurich
Søren Leth-Petersen

Professor of economics, deputy director and co-PI

  • University of Copenhagen
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
Juliane Vogel

Professor of modern German literature and general literary studies

  • University of Konstanz
Stuart Kirsch

Professor of anthropology

  • University of Michigan
Ronald M. Evans

Professor, director of Salk’s Gene Expression Laboratory and holder of the March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology

  • Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Anthony Hyman

Group leader and a director of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

  • Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Franck Polleux

Professor of neuroscience

  • Columbia's Zuckerman Institute
James P. Noonan

Albert E. Kent Professor of Genetics and Professor of Neuroscience

  • Yale University
Markus Klammer

Schaulager Professor of Art Theory and member of the governing committee of eikones

  • 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
Nancy Thebaut

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
Michel Maréchal

Professor of economics

  • University of Zurich
Michael Hampe

Professor of philosophy

  • ETH Zurich
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