Edvard I. Moser

Edvard Moser is a Professor of Neuroscience and a Scientific Director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience (KISN) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He is interested in neural network coding in the cortex, with particular emphasis on space, time and memory. His work, conducted in collaboration with Professor May-Britt Moser, includes the Nobel-awarded discovery of grid cells. Their current focus is on unravelling how neural microcircuits for space are organized dynamically among large numbers of diverse neurons with known functional identity, a computational neuroscience-inspired endeavour significantly boosted by the technological development of chronic Neuropixels probes and 2-photon miniscopes for freely-moving rodents - technologies that the Mosers participated in developing.  

After a professional degree in psychology in 1990, Edvard Moser received PhD training in neurophysiology at the University of Oslo under Per Andersen (1991-95) and postdoctoral training under Richard Morris at the University of Edinburgh and John O’Keefe at the University College of London (1995-96). In 1996 Moser accepted a faculty position in psychology at NTNU. With May-Britt Moser, he founded the Centre for the Biology of Memory in 2002, the Kavli Institute in 2007, the Centre for Neural Computation in 2013, and the Centre for Algorithms in the Cortex in 2023, with ten-year blocks of funding from the Norwegian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence scheme. The Mosers have received numerous scientific awards, including the 2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology (shared with O´Keefe), as well as the W. Alden Spencer Award (2005), the Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2011), the Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize (2013), the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry (2013;shared with O´Keefe), the Karl Spencer Lashley Award (2014), and the Koerber European Science Prize (2014). They are foreign members of the National Academy of Science (2014) and the National Academy of Medicine (2015), as well as the American Philosophical Society (2015), the Royal Society of London (2023), the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina (2016), the Swedish Academy of Sciences (2016), and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2004). As of 2025, Moser has supervised 35 PhD students and 47 postdocs. He has served on the Council of the Society for Neuroscience as well as several international advisory boards.