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.

Former NOMIS Fellow

Former NOMIS Fellow

Professor of modern German literature and general literary studies

Professor of anthropology

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

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

Professor of neuroscience

Albert E. Kent Professor of Genetics and Professor of Neuroscience

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

Former NOMIS Fellow

Former NOMIS Fellow

Former NOMIS Fellow

Professor of economics

Professor of philosophy

Honorable S. William Green Professor of Public Law

Executive director of Global Conservation Impact, WWF

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

Senior scientist in philosophy and history of knowledge

Professor of biochemistry

Visiting professor

Professor