
May-Britt Moser
b. 1963
Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist
- Born
- 4 Jan 1963 · Fosnavåg
Life timeline
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- 4 Jan 1963BornBorn in Fosnavåg
- 2005AwardW. Alden Spencer Award
- 2006AwardPrix Liliane-Bettencourt pour les sciences du vivant
- 2008AwardEric K. Fernströms Nordiska Pris
- 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
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Major world events during their lifetime (1963 – today).
- 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
- 2023Gaza war
- 20242024 Summer Olympics
Biography
May-Britt Moser (born 1963) is a Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist, who is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She and her former husband, Edvard Moser, shared half of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,
awarded for work concerning the grid cells in the entorhinal cortex, as well as several additional space-representing cell types in the same circuit that make up the positioning system in the brain.
Together with Edvard Moser she established the Moser research environment at NTNU, which they lead. Since 2023 she has headed the Centre for Algorithms in the Cortex.
Moser received her education as a psychologist at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo and obtained a PhD in neurophysiology at the Faculty of Medicine in 1995; in 1996 she was appointed as associate professor in biological psychology at the Department of Psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) she was promoted to professor of neuroscience in 2000. In 2002 her research group was given the status of a separate "centre of excellence".
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