Edvard Moser

Who is Edvard Moser?

Edvard Moser is a Norwegian psychologist, neuroscientist and Founding Director of The Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory ] at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.

May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser were appointed associate professors in psychology and neuroscience at NTNU in 1996, less than one year after their PhD defenses. They established the Centre for the Biology of Memory in 2002 and the Kavli Institute in 2007. Edvard and his wife May-Britt Moser have pioneered research on the brain's mechanism for representing space during the last decade.

Moser has won several prizes, many together with his wife, including the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize and the Karl Spencer Lashley Award. He became a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2014.