May-Britt Moser
May-Britt Moser
May-Britt Moseris a Norwegian psychologist, neuroscientist, and head of department of the Centre for Neural Computation at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She and her then-husband, Edvard Moser, pioneered research on the brain's mechanism for representing space together with their mentor John O'Keefe. They shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with O'Keefe, awarded for work concerning the grid cells in the entorhinal cortex, as well as several additional space-representing cell types in the same circuit...
NationalityNorwegian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth4 January 1963
CountryNorway
Whenever I have given lectures to a large audience before, I have always looked for an ending that gives a 'wow' feeling.
It's not fair to look at me and my husband as a couple when it comes to work. In the lab we are colleagues. We have the same vision and we both are very ambitious. I think ambitious people find ambitious people to play with.