Edvard Moser was born in Ålesund, Norway. After studying at the University of Oslo, he received a doctorate in neurophysiology in 1995. After stays at the University of Edinburgh and University College London, the couple moved to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Edvard Moser is a professor of neuroscience and director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience in Trondheim. 

Edvard Moser出生于挪威奧瑞斯桑德。在奧斯陸大學學習后，1995年獲得了神經生理學博士學位。在愛丁堡大學和倫敦大學學院學習后，與妻子搬到了位于特隆赫姆的挪威科技大學。Edvard Moser是神經科學教授，也是挪威卡弗里系統神經研究所的主任。

In 2005 May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser discovered a type of cell that is important for determining position close to the hippocampus, an area located in the center of the brain. They found that when a rat passed certain points arranged in a hexagonal grid in space, nerve cells that form a kind of coordinate system for navigation were activated. They then went on to demonstrate how these different cell types cooperate.

2005年5月，Edvard與妻子發現了一種細胞，這種細胞對于確定靠近海馬體的位置非常重要，也就是大腦中央的一個區域。他們發現，當一只老鼠通過空間中排列成六角形網格的特定點時，形成某種坐標系的神經細胞就會被激活。然后他們繼續論證這些不同的細胞類型是如何合作的。