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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.

Alwin Köhler

Scientific director and professor of mechanistic cell biology

  • Max Perutz Labs Vienna
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
Ralph Ubl

Head of the center (eikones)

  • 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
Jacob Corn

Professor of Genome Biology

  • ETH Zurich
Martin Pilhofer

Professor of Cryo-Electron Microscopy

  • ETH Zurich
Tobias Wilke

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
Ye Zheng

Associate Professor - NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

  • Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Greg Lemke

Françoise Gilot-Salk Chair and professor in the Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory

  • Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Andrew Caplin

Silver Professor of Economics

  • New York University
Michael Woodford

John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University

  • Columbia University - Department of Economics
Anna Deplazes Zemp

Senior researcher and project leader

  • University of Zurich
Tom J. Battin

Full professor of environmental sciences, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne)
Michael Schaepman

President of UZH

  • University of Zurich
Marc-David Ruepp

Reader in RNA biology and molecular neurodegeneration

  • King’s College London
Caroline Maake

Professor of anatomy and research group leader

  • University of Zurich
Josh Tewksbury

Director, STRI

  • Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Michael Hagner

Professor for science studies

  • ETH Zurich
Ophelia Deroy

Chair, Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Neuroscience

  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich Center for Neurosciences
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