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We are delighted to congratulate Edvard Moser, F1000Prime Faculty Member in the Neuroscience Faculty, on receiving the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Professor Moser is a founding director of The Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory (KI/CBM) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and has been a Faculty Member since 2003, recommending articles for the Cognitive Neuroscience Section.

Professor Moser was awarded half of the Nobel Prize jointly with his wife, May-Britt Moser, also a founding director of the KI/CBM, with the other half being award to University College London’s John O’Keefe, for their “discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain”.

Below is short interview with Professor Moser taken by Faculty of 1000 Publisher Kathleen Wets back in 2011, covering grid cells and “neural navigational maps”: the areas of research that have earned this most prestigious of honours.

A full press release is available from the Nobel Prize official website. Our congratulations again to all three winners!