Eddie Lee is a postdoctoral researcher at the Complexity Science Hub and the Institute for Forest Ecology at BOKU University.

He studies the connection between small and large living patterns around us. Examples range from the biology of neural tissue to the ecology of forests, the dynamics of armed conflict, and the processes of innovation and obsolescence in society. He is fascinated by how we paint those patterns on the shared canvas of mathematics and what the resulting similarities between the mathematical representations reveal about them. Do similarities reflect analogous function, universal dynamics, or are they (simply) artifacts of our representation? His work aims to answer these overarching questions about scales the relation between them from the standpoint of information and energy.

Eddie was formerly a Program Postdoctoral Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute and a recipient of the Austrian ESPRIT Fellowship. He has a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Cornell University – where he received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship – and a BA in Physics from Princeton University. He has been invited to panels on the science of violence (Santa Fe Council on Int’l Relations) and on the physics of the 2021 Nobel Prize (Santa Fe Institute). He has been appointed to the position of Assistant Professor of Physics at Seoul National University starting in Fall 2026.