Fulbright Specialist National Science Foundation Ismar Volić is a Bosnian-American mathematician.

In 2019, he co-founded the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy to "promote a deeper understanding of mathematics as a pivotal force in creating a democracy where people make informed political decisions and enact change based on objective and rigorous quantitative criteria".

He is the author of over thirty articles and two books and has delivered more than two hundred lectures in some twenty countries.

He has contributed to the fields of calculus of functors, spaces of embeddings and immersions, configuration space integrals, finite type invariants, Milnor invariants, rational homotopy theory, topological data analysis, and social choice theory.

Volić was awarded a 2017-2018 Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant, which he used to visit University of Sarajevo.