Dr. Edvard Ingjald Moser (MS-PHD in Neuroscience) is a Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist, who as of May 2024 is a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.

Edvard Moser

Edvard Moser in 2015
Born
Edvard Ingjald Moser
27 April 1962 (age 62)
Ålesund, Norway
Alma mater
University of Oslo
Known for
Grid cells
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
He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014 with long-term collaborator 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.