Edvard Moser
b. 1962
Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist
- Born
- 27 Apr 1962 · Ålesund Municipality
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 27 Apr 1962BornBorn in Ålesund Municipality
- 2005AwardW. Alden Spencer Award
- 2008AwardEric K. Fernströms Nordiska Pris
- 2010AwardFellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2011AwardLouis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
- 2012AwardPerl-UNC Prize
- 2013AwardFridtjof Nansen Award of Excellence, Mathematics-Natural sciences class
- 2013AwardLouisa Gross Horwitz Prize
- 2014AwardÅrets trønder
- 2014AwardKarl Spencer Lashley Award
- 2014AwardKörber European Science Prize
- 2014AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 2018AwardKnight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1962 – today).
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
- 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
- 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
- 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
- 19841984 Summer Olympics
- 1985Schengen Agreement
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
- 19901990 FIFA World Cup
- 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- 19941994 FIFA World Cup
- 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
- 19981998 FIFA World Cup
- 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
- 2003 – 2011Iraq War
- 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
- 20062006 FIFA World Cup
- 20082008 Summer Olympics
- 2008Russo-Georgian War
- 20102010 Haiti earthquake
- 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
- 20112011 Norway attacks
- 2011Libyan civil war
- 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
- 20122012 Summer Olympics
- 20142014 FIFA World Cup
- 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
- 2015Paris Agreement
- 20182018 FIFA World Cup
- 2020COVID-19 pandemic
- 20212020 Summer Olympics
- 2022Russo-Ukrainian war
Biography
Edvard Ingjald Moser (pronounced [ˈɛ̀dvɑɖ ˈmoːsər]; born 27 April 1962) 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.
He 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. 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.
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