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Edvard Moser
Edvard Moser | |
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 Edvard Moser in 2015 | |
| Born | Edvard Ingjald Moser 27 April 1962[1] Ålesund, Norway |
| Alma mater | University of Oslo |
| Known for | Grid cells, place cells, border cells, neurons |
| Spouse | May-Britt Moser (1985–2016) |
| Awards | Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2011) Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (2014) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2014) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroscience |
| Institutions | Norwegian University of Science and Technology University of Edinburgh |
| Doctoral students | Marianne Fyhn |
Edvard Ingjald Moser (pronounced [ˈɛ̀dvɑɖ ˈmoːsər]) is a Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist, who as of May 2024[update] is a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.
He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014 with long-term collaborator and then-wife May-Britt Moser, and previous mentor John O'Keefe for their work identifying the brain's positioning system. The two main components of the brain's GPS are grid cells and place cells, a specialized type of neuron that respond to specific locations in space. Together with May-Britt Moser he established the Moser research environment.
In 1996 he was appointed as associate professor in biological psychology at the Department of Psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU); he was promoted to professor of neuroscience in 1998. In 2002, his research group was given the status of a separate "centre of excellence". Edvard Moser has led a succession of research groups and centres, collectively known as the Moser research environment.
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