May-Britt Moser

May-Britt Moser is a Norwegian neuroscientist, psychologist, and university teacher born in Fosnavåg in 1963. She serves as a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the University of Oslo. Her academic background includes studies at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Oslo, where she was a student of John O'Keefe. Her professional interests focus on neuroscience and grid neurons.

Moser has received several honors, including the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, the Körber European Science Prize, and the Perl-UNC Prize. She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, Academia Europaea, and the National Academy of Sciences. She resides in Trondheim and speaks English and Norwegian. Her spouse is Edvard Moser.