May-Britt Moser

Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and founding director of the Kavley Institute for Systemic Neuroscience and the Center for Memory Biology at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Moser and her former husband Edward Moser have led a series of cutting-edge research on brain mechanisms over the past few decades. In 2013, the couple and John O'Keefe jointly won the Hovitz Prize. In 2014, the three of them won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the cells that make up the brain's localization system., How do we humans know where we are? How do we find another place from one place? How can we store such information so that we can quickly find the same path next time? Professor Mose won the Nobel Prize in 2014 for discovering the cells that build the brain localization system - GPS cells. She studied the correlation between the anatomical structure of the hippocampus and social learning in rats, laying the foundation for new research on cognitive deficits related to neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's disease