May-Britt Moser 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 2012 she has headed the Centre for Neural Computation.
Moser in 2014. (Photographer: Henrik Fjørtoft / NTNU Communication Division)
A neuroscientist is a scientist who has specialised knowledge in neuroscience, a branch of biology that deals with the physiology, biochemistry, psychology, anatomy and molecular biology of neurons, neural circuits, and glial cells and especially their behavioral, biological, and psychological aspect in health and disease.
Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), Italian physician, neuroscientist, and namesake of the Golgi apparatus
May-Britt Moser, co-winner of 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Eric Kandel, co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine