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Edvard Moser
Neuroscientist

Edvard Moser

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Co-discovering the grid cells used in the brain’s spatial navigation.

Grid cells · Nobel Prize

Born
27 April 1962
Birthplace
Ålesund, Norway

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Edvard Moser

Edvard Moser is a Norwegian neuroscientist who studies how networks of brain cells represent location, memory and experience.

Early life

Family

Grew up in western Norway with German-born parents; his father built organs.

Training

Studied psychology in Oslo and completed a neurophysiology doctorate in 1995.

Career

  1. 1996

    NTNU

    Joined the university in Trondheim with May-Britt Moser.

  2. 1998

    Professor

    Became a professor of neuroscience.

  3. 2007

    Kavli Institute

    Became director of the institute for systems neuroscience.

Contributions

Grid cells

Co-discovered a repeating neural representation of space.

Nobel Prize

Shared the medicine prize with May-Britt Moser and John O’Keefe.

Time and experience

Co-authored research on how the brain encodes time through experience.

Beyond the lab

Scientific partnership

Maintained his research collaboration with May-Britt Moser after their marriage ended.

Recognition

Received Norway’s Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav in 2018.

Sources & photo creditLife, career and references ↗Institutional biography and research ↗

Photo: Bengt Oberger. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.