May Britt Moser

May Britt Moser is a Professor at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, NTNU. Her research focuses on the neural basis of spatial location, spatial memory, and cognition. She co-discovered grid cells in the entorhinal cortex, a breakthrough earning her the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine alongside Edvard I. Moser and John O'Keefe. Key roles include Founding Director of the Centre for Algorithms in the Cortex and former Director of the Centre for Neural Computation (2013–2022). She holds a PhD in neurophysiology from the University of Oslo (1995).

Research Interests: Moser’s work explores spatial navigation, memory formation, and neural circuits underlying cognition. Her group investigates grid-cell circuits, hippocampal-entorhinal interactions, and temporal coding mechanisms. Recent studies address object-vector coding, theta rhythm dynamics, and the impact of geometric environments on neural representations.

Scientific Contributions: Over 50+ publications since 2010, including seminal work on grid cells, spatial coding, and neural oscillations. Key awards include the Nobel Prize and honors from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Teams & Projects: Leads the Moser group and initiatives like KiloNeurons and TheMini2P. Collaborates on large-scale imaging techniques and computational models of neural circuits.