Edvard Moser

Edvard Ingjald Moser is a Norwegian psychologist, neuroscientist, and head of department of the Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. He is currently based at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology near Munich, Germany as a visiting researcher.

Moser was born in lesund to German parents who had emigrated from Germany to Norway in the 1950s. His mother originally was from Essen and his father from Kronberg im Taunus. The Moser family initially lived at Haramsya, where his father, a pipe organ builder, was employed. Later they relocated, first to Hareid and then to lesund.

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