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Van Savage is full professor at UCLA in the departments of Computational Medicine and also Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and he is external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute,. Savage was trained and did his early work in quantum field theory, developing alternative models for the Higgs Boson and generalized theories with Charge-Parity-Time symmetry. Beginning 25 years ago, Savage shifted his research focus to diverse aspects of biological systems. His undergraduate degree was in Physics with a minor in Mathematics from Rhodes College. His PhD was in theoretical particle physics at Washington University in St. Louis and his first postdoc was at the Santa Fe Institute and Los Alamos National Lab. He also did a second postdoc at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School. A major goal of his research is to quantify and understand the possible functions, forms, and interactions of biological systems that result in the extraordinary diversity in nature. He has studied a wide range of areas such as metabolic scaling, consumer-resource interactions, rates of evolution, effects of global warming on ecosystems, tumor growth, and sleep. His work joins together ecology, evolutionary theory, physiology, mathematical modeling, image-analysis software, informatics, and biomedical sciences.