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Edvard Moser
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
- 1996
NTNU
Joined the university in Trondheim with May-Britt Moser.
- 1998
Professor
Became a professor of neuroscience.
- 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 credit
Life, career and references ↗Institutional biography and research ↗Photo: Bengt Oberger. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
