Edvard Moser
Edvard Moser Ingjald (* April 27, 1962 in Ålesund ) is a Norwegian neuroscientist. Together with his wife, May-Britt Moser, he is known for his work on spatial orientation and spatial memory, which is a psychological function could be attributed to mechanistic level on the function of ( individual ) neurons for the first time.
Life
Edvard Moser and his wife, May-Britt Moser studied from 1982 at the University of Oslo, mathematics, statistics, programming, neurobiology and psychology. Edvard Moser finished his studies in psychology in 1990. Both earned at the University of Oslo in Per Andersen a doctoral degree in neurophysiology. Before and after ( as a post-doctoral), they were together at Richard Morris at the University of Edinburgh. Another post -doctoral station led them to John O'Keefe at University College London.
1996 both returned to Norway to take over at the Natural Sciences and Engineering University of Norway ( NTNU ) in Trondheim positions as Associate Professor of Biological Psychology, Edvard Moser in 1998 with a full professorship for Neuroscience. 2002 both there founded the Center for the Biology of Memory, which was converted to the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience ( Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience ) in 2007 and its director Edvard Moser and its Vice-Director May-Britt Moser was until 2012. Since 2013 ( and until 2022 ) Edvard Moser is vice-director of the Norwegian Research Council for over 10 years with 175 million Norwegian crowns ( ≈ 24 million euros ) funded and led by his wife 's Center for Neural Computation at the Kavli Institute (Center for Neural computations, cf. Computational Neuroscience ).
Edvard Moser and his wife have now (as of 2013) in addition to the Faculty of Medicine at NTNU, respectively a professor of neuroscience held. The couple has two daughters.
The couple has two children.
Work
The couple Moser deals with the structures of the ( rat ) brain that are involved in spatial orientation in planning a route and at the remembrance of spatial elements ( spatial memory). Neurons that are involved in these tasks can be found in the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex, where the Moser's 2005 grid cells (English, about, coordinate cells ') identified. The grid cells work depending on the movement of an individual by its surroundings. The coordinate grid that is formed by these cells, is composed of equilateral triangles. The discovery of grid cells is one of the most important developments in neuroscience at the beginning of the 21st century. Grid cells were also observed in mice and bats ( and primates ) and have been found probably in all mammals, although the detection of these cells in humans is still pending.
Couple the identified other types of cells of the entorhinal cortex which are respectively dedicated for the detection of the direction of the movement or the detection of the physical limitation of the environment. The Moser could also show that this information is processed by neuronal firing circuits of the memory space in the hippocampus. May-Britt and Edvard Moser cleared on the way how the brain calculates the position of the individual in its environment, which previous ways of thinking in this regard were overcome.
Recent work dealing with the question of how the grid cells that are responsible for the registration of movement in space, interact with the place cells, a process described by John O'Keefe cell type that specializes in the identification of specific locations.
Awards (selection)
- 2003 Member of Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab ( Royal Norwegian Scientific Society )
- 2005 Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science
- 2011 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2011 Louis- Jeantet Prize
- 2012 Perl -UNC Neuroscience Prize