May-Britt Moser
Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist
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May-Britt Moser is a Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist who studies how the brain processes space and navigation. Her research has contributed important discoveries to our understanding of brain function, making her work significant in the field of neuroscience.
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- 1963-01-04
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- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,060x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,177x
- The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project
· 2013 · cited 8,418x
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May-Britt Moser FRS (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.
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1963 birthsAcademic staff of the Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyAcademic staff of the University of OsloAlumni of the University of EdinburghForeign associates of the National Academy of SciencesLiving peopleMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyMembers of the National Academy of MedicineMembers of the Norwegian Academy of Science and LettersMembers of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences