May-Britt Moser#
| Membership Number: | 2999 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ntnu.edu/employees/may-britt.moser |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013-2022 Founding Director of Centre for Neural Computation
- 2007 Founding Co-Director of Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience
- 2002 - 2012 Founding Co-Director of Centre for the Biology of Memory
- 2001 - 2002 Associate Professor of Biological Psychology
- 2000 Professor of Neuroscience
Fields of Scholarship
- Spatial location
- Psychology
- Spatial memory
- Neuroscience
Honours and Awards
- 1999 Prize for young scientists awarded by the Royal Norwegian Academy for Sciences and Letters
- 2005 28th annual W. Alden Spencer Award (College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University)
- 2006 14th Betty and David Koetser Award for Brain Research (University of Zürich)
- 2006 10th Prix "Liliane Bettencourt pour les Sciences du Vivant" 2006 (Fondation Bettencourt, Paris)
- 2008 30th Eric K. Fernström’s Great Nordic Prize (Fernström Foundation, University of Lund)
- 2011 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
- 2011 Anders Jahre Award (with Edvard Moser)
- 2012 Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize (with Edvard Moser)
- 2013 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (with Edvard Moser and John O'Keefe)
- 2014 Karl Spencer Lashley Award
(with Edvard Moser)
- 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with one half jointly with Edvard I. Moser (and the other half to John O'Keefe)
