Prof. May-Britt Moser

2014 Nobel Laureate for Medicine at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim/Norway

Prof. Moser discovered grid cells which have a major relevance in understanding memory and its loss and in finding new ways of treating Alzheimer’s disease.

Biography:

Prof. May-Britt 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 Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2014 for her work on how spatial location and memory are computed in the brain and identify the cells that make up the brain’s positioning system. Her work includes the discovery of grid cells in the entorhinal cortex which have a major relevance in understanding memory and its loss and in finding new ways of treating Alzheimer’s disease. Being a Founder of the Centre for the Biology of Memory and NTNU’s Scientific Director of the Centre for Algorithms in the Cortex, Professor Moser has more recently turned her attention to the mechanisms by which space, time and memory are encoded in large neural populations. She is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

Topic of keynote speech:

• The brain’s systems for navigation and memory and their relevance for Alzheimer’s disease

Schedule:

Monday, February 9, 2026:

14:00 Public keynote speech and dialogue at the National Taiwan University in Taipei

Further information and free seat reservation via phone +886-2-3366-4684 or email
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