Edvard Moser is a professor of neuroscience and director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience in Trondheim. Edvard Moser is interested in how spatial location and spatial memory are computed in the brain. His work, conducted with May-Britt Moser as a long-term collaborator, includes the discovery of grid cells in the entorhinal cortex, which provides the first clues to a neural mechanism for the metric of spatial mapping. Their current focus is on unravelling how neural microcircuits for space, time and memory are organized in terms of interactions between thousands of diverse neurons with known functional identity, a computational neuroscience endeavour that is significantly boosted by the invention of Neuropixels probes and 2-photon miniscopes for freely moving rodents.

Edvard Moser is the Founding Director/Co-Director of three Research Council-funded Centres of Excellence. In 2014 together with May-Britt Moser and John O'Keefe he received the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for their work identifying the brain's positioning system.