Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist Edvard Moser has received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Saint Louis (UNSL). The scientist was awarded several times and in 2014 he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology.
As published by UNSL, the award winner studied how location and spatial memory are calculated in the brain. His research focused on coding neural networks in the cerebral cortex. The first phase of the study spanned two decades and was characterized by the discovery of grid cells in the entorhinal cortex, which is part of the brain’s positioning system. He conducted this research with May-Britt Moser and John O’Keefe, who also won the Nobel Prize.
The UNSL recognition was delivered on Friday in the middle of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Argentine Society for Neuroscience Research (SAN). Moser signed the degree and certificate and left his mark in the institution’s distinguished visitors’ book.
The professional is currently working to discover how precise neural circuits organize space and time as interactions in a large number of neurons.
Moser was nominated by Dr. Ana Cecilia Anzolovic, who works as a professor at the Faculty of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacy (FQByF) and is part of the organization of this edition of the SAN meeting. This is the second time UNSL has received a Nobel Prize winner, the first being Ilya Prigogine, a physicist and chemist of Russian origin.
In addition, the Supreme Council of the House of Graduate Studies has already approved the award of a new honorary doctorate to Dr. Gallo Juan de Ávila Arturo Soler Elia. This hypothesis works in the field of nanoscience, chemistry and chemical physics of materials. At the same time, he trained and contributed to research teachers
To UNSL for its scientific production and participation in national and international projects.
According to the university, Soler Elia is a senior researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (Conicet), director of the Institute of Nanosystems (INS) at the National University of San Martin (Unsam), and associate professor at the Faculty of Engineering. Exact Sciences and Natural Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (FCEN-UBA) and Full Academician of the National Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences (Ancefn).
Soler Illia has already received a large number of accolades and is a patent author. He, in turn, has 200 articles in the scientific information database Web of Science.
The researcher’s application was submitted by Dr. Germán Gomes, Professor at UNSL and Research Associate at Conicet, at the Research Institute of Chemical Technology (Intequ).
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