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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.

Katia Troha 

Former NOMIS Fellow

  • Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Siva Karthik Varanasi

Former NOMIS Fellow

  • Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Didier Fassin

James D. Wolfensohn Professor

  • École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Institute for Advanced Study
Don W. Cleveland

Professor and department chair of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

  • UC San Diego - School of Medicine
Victoria Orphan

James Irvine Professor of Environmental Science and Geobiology

  • California Institute of Technology
Markus Reinhard

Managing director of the NOMIS Foundation

  • NOMIS Foundation
Dieter Edbauer

Professor

  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Svante Pääbo

Director, Department of Evolutionary Genetics

  • Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Karl Deisseroth

D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

  • Stanford Medicine
Tony Wyss-Coray

D. H. Chen Professor II

  • Stanford Medicine
Manos Tsakiris

Professor of Psychology

  • Royal Holloway, University of London, The Warburg Institute
Jörg Heldmann

Deputy managing director

  • NOMIS Foundation
Anne Kerstin Aeberli

Program manager

  • NOMIS Foundation
Sally Peggs

Program manager

  • NOMIS Foundation
Lucie Novotna

Former NOMIS Fellow

  • Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Zhi Liu

Former NOMIS Fellow

  • Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Kaisa Happonen

Former NOMIS Fellow

  • Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Ernst Fehr

Member of the NOMIS Foundation board of directors

  • NOMIS Foundation, University of Zurich
Nilüfer Göle

Member of the NOMIS Foundation board of directors

  • École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, NOMIS Foundation
Christian Haass

Member of the NOMIS Foundation board of directors

  • German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), NOMIS Foundation
Martin W. Hetzer

Member of the NOMIS Foundation board of directors

  • Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), NOMIS Foundation
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