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Edvard Moser
Nobel Laureate in Physiology/Medicine
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Edvard Moser is the 2014 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He shared the prize with May-Britt Moser and John O’Keefe ‘for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.’ He received the prize specifically for the discovery of grid cells, a cell type in the brain that enables animals and humans to determine where they are.
Edvard Moser is a Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. He is the leader of a research laboratory interested in how higher brain functions arise by complex interactions between hundreds or thousands of neurons in the brain. To understand such processes, he has focused on how the sense of location and memories for location are generated in the brain. His work, conducted with May-Britt Moser as a long-term collaborator, includes the discovery of grid cells, which in many ways can be seen as the brain’s own GPS. The discovery of grid cells has led to a revision of established views of how the brain calculates self-position, and spatial localization and is becoming one of the first higher-order brain functions to be understood at a mechanistic level.
Edvard Moser received his initial training at the University of Oslo in the early 1990s. In 1996, he accepted a faculty position at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology the same year. In 2002 he became the Founding Director of the Centre for the Biology of Memory and in 2007 the Director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience. Edvard Moser is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Neural Computation at the same institution. Together with May-Britt Moser, he has received numerous scientific awards. After the Nobel Prize in 2014, he has remained as active in research as before and together with his colleagues he is continuing to make breakthroughs in our understanding of how the brain operates.
Edvard Moser has a long track record as a lecturer for audiences with widely different backgrounds. He has spoken at numerous science festivals and for lay audiences with no qualifications other than curiosity. He is known for his ability to translate complex science to a language understandable to everyone in the audience. He is regularly used as an expert commentator by TV and radio channels as well as major newspapers and has participated repeatedly in international panel discussions on issues related to brain science such as artificial intelligence. He has a broad overview of the workings of the brain and can offer insights on brain disease as well as the potential for artificial intelligence to learn from brain science.
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