May-Britt Moser
Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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May-Britt Moser FRS (born 4 January 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,[1] [2] [3] 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.[4] Together with Edvard Moser she established the Moser research environment at NTNU, which they lead. Since 2012 she has headed the Centre for Neural Computation.
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Born | May-Britt Andreassen (1963-01-04) 4 January 1963 (age 61) |
Nationality | Norwegian |
Alma mater | University of Oslo |
Known for | Grid cells, Neurons |
Spouse | Edvard Moser (1985–2016) |
Children | 2 |
Awards | Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2011) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2014) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Neuroscience, Psychology |
Institutions | Norwegian University of Science and Technology University of Edinburgh |
Doctoral advisor | Per Andersen |
Doctoral students | Marianne Fyhn |
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".[5]