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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.

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
Jim Greiner

Honorable S. William Green Professor of Public Law

  • Harvard Law School
Jon Hutton

Executive director of Global Conservation Impact, WWF

  • Luc Hoffman Institute
Jürgen Renn

Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin

  • Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Uwe Justus Wenzel

Senior scientist in philosophy and history of knowledge

  • ETH Zurich
Oliver Mühlemann

Professor of biochemistry

  • University of Bern
Edouard Alphandéry

Visiting professor

  • University of Zurich
Georgios Katsaros

Professor

  • Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
Eric M. Reiman

Executive director of the Banner Alzheimer's Institute, CEO of Banner Research, and senior scientist at the Translational Genomics Research Institute

  • Banner Alzheimer’s Institute
Jesús Crespo Cuaresma

Professor of economics

  • WU Institute for Macroeconomics
Johannes Fink

Professor

  • Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
John Reynolds

Professor, Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, Fiona and Sanjay Jha Chair in Neuroscience

  • Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Björn Lillemeier

Former NOMIS researcher

  • Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Alwin Köhler

Scientific director and professor of mechanistic cell biology

  • Max Perutz Labs Vienna
Martin Pilhofer

Professor of Cryo-Electron Microscopy

  • ETH Zurich
Jacob Corn

Professor of Genome Biology

  • ETH Zurich
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