Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience (KISN) is a leading research centre aiming to understand the emergence of higher brain functions. The research centre is led by Professors and Nobel Laureates May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser since 1996. The research centre is a Kavli Foundation Institute since 2007, a Centre of Excellence (CoE) since 2002, and a department under the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). KISN consists of the centres Centre for Neural Computation (CoE) and Egil and Pauline Braathen and Fred Kavli Centre for Cortical Microcircuits. The staff is organized into eight work units: seven research labs with associated team of scientists, students and technicians under the leadership of eight principal investigators, as well as one support group of administrators and technicians working across the scientific groups, under the collected leadership of an administrative director. The department is responsible for an international Master of Science in Neuroscience programme and is connected to the Ph.D. programme in Medicine.