Dr. Edward Lee
- 1 Besuch pro Semester
- Bevorzugte Region: Wien
- Besucht gerne folgende Schulstufen: Volksschulen, SEK II
- Keine anfallenden Kosten für die Schule
- Besuche ausschließlich auf Englisch
Forschungsschwerpunkte
I study the physics of collective groups in biological and social systems. This means that I invent mathematical equations inspired from physics to explain how groups of components interact such as neurons in the brain, societies battling in war, plants competing in dynamic ecosystems, and firms seeking out new ideas.
Aktuelle Projekte
The shape of armed conflict: Armed conflict happens all over the world regularly, but how it spreads and why it happens are still an important area of research. I study how we can translate armed conflict events into mathematical equations that reveal patterns shared between conflicts.
Forests and fractals: A cauliflower looks like a tree which looks like your circulatory system. These are all examples of fractals, which are geometric patterns that look the same even when you look closer and closer. Fractals are everywhere in nature, and I study where fractals come from and why they matter for how forests grow, die, and compete.
Physics of political voting: What does physics have anything to do with political voting? Physics models provide a new way of understanding and modeling voting behavior such as in courts, where judges vote on a decision. This way of thinking about voting opens up connections to physics of magnets and neurons.
Auszug aus dem wissenschaftlichen Werdegang
- PhD in Theoretical Physics, Cornell University, 2019
- MSc in Physics, Cornell University, 2018
- BA in Physics and Biophysics, Princeton University, 2012
