May-Britt Moser

May-Britt Moser FRS
Moser in 2014. (Photographer: Henrik Fjørtoft / NTNU Communication Division)
Born	May-Britt Andreassen (1963-01-04) 4 January 1963 (age 61) Fosnavåg, Norway
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

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.

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]