Harin Lee

Harin combines big data with cross-cultural experiments to investigate the psychological foundations of music cognition. His varied experience ranges from conducting field experiments in the Bolivian Amazon to developing human-in-the-loop online paradigms for studying cultural evolution processes in artificial worlds. At King’s College, he will bring together these skill sets to analyse the temporal structures of music and speech collected from tens of thousands of radio stations around the globe, with the aim of uncovering the demographic, linguistic, and cultural dimensions of human rhythm.

Harin completed his PhD at the Max Planck Institute in Germany (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences; MPI for Empirical Aesthetics). He has also spent time in industry (Deezer Research, Paris) and is a co-founder of aiar, an art-science collective that integrates real-time brain imaging into live audiovisual performances, including recent events at venues such as Berghain in Berlin.