Harin Lee

Harin Lee is a multidisciplinary researcher combining large-scale data analysis with cross-cultural experiments to study the psychological foundations of music cognition and musical diversity worldwide. His research includes field experiments with Tsimané villagers in the Bolivian Amazon and developing human-in-the-loop online paradigms to investigate cultural evolution in artificial worlds.

Currently a Junior Research Fellow at King’s College, University of Cambridge, he earned his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Previously, he worked at the music streaming company Deezer in Paris and co-founded ‘aiar’, an art-science collective that integrates real-time brain imaging into live performances at venues such as Berghain in Berlin.