1. Edvard Moser 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.
17 Facts About Edvard Moser
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Edvard Moser has led a succession of research groups and centres, collectively known as the Moser research environment.
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Edvard Moser was born in Alesund to German parents Eduard Paul Edvard Moser and Ingeborg Annamarie Herholz.
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Edvard Moser's parents had grown up in Kronberg im Taunus, a suburb of Frankfurt, where Moser's grandfather Eduard Moser had been Lutheran parish priest.
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The Edvard Moser family originally was from Nassau; Edvard Moser is a South German topographic name for someone who lived near a swamp or mire.
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Edvard Moser married May-Britt Moser in 1985 when they were both students.
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Edvard Moser's sister is the sociologist Ingunn Moser, known as the founding rector of VID University.
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Edvard Moser was then employed as a research fellow at the Faculty of Medicine, where he obtained his dr.
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Edvard Moser returned to Norway in 1996 to be appointed associate professor in biological psychology at the Department of Psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.
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Edvard Moser was promoted to full professor of neuroscience in 1998.
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Edvard Moser is head of department of the NTNU Institute for Systems Neuroscience.
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In 2005, he and his then-wife May-Britt Edvard Moser discovered grid cells in the brain's medial entorhinal cortex.
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Edvard Moser 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.
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Edvard Moser is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the American Philosophical Society, and the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.
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Edvard Moser is an honorary professor at the Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems at the University of Edinburgh Medical School.
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Edvard Moser has been a member of the board of reviewing editors in science since 2004 and he has been reviewing editor for Journal of Neuroscience since 2005.
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Edvard Moser chaired the programme committee of the European Neuroscience meeting in 2006.