Prof. Edvard I. Moser

2014 Nobel Laureate for Medicine at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience of the University for Science and Technology in Trondheim/Norway

Prof. Moser works on how spatial location and memory are computed in the brain and how to identify the cells and neural networks that make up the brain’s positioning system.

Biography:

Prof. Edvard Ingjald Moser is a Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist and a Founding Director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) who was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on how spatial location and memory are computed in the brain and how to identify the cells that make up the brain’s GPS and positioning system. His work includes the discovery of grid cells in the entorhinal cortex which have a major relevance in understanding navigation and memory and its loss and in finding new ways of treating Alzheimer’s disease. Professor Moser is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA and the Royal Society of London as well as the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Topic of keynote speech:

• The brain’s GPS: How we know where we are

Schedule:

Friday, March 27, 2026:

14:00 Public keynote speech and dialogue at Academia Sinica in Taipei

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