Bruce is a senior research scientist at the ETH Zürich in the field of physical chemistry. His focus on the spectroscopy of aerosol particles and fundamental studies of light-matter interactions to bring a deeper understanding of our world. He is involved in multiple projects with the aerosol and nanoparticle group at the ETH Zürich, as well as collaborations at synchrotrons and free-electron lasers around Europe.

Born and raised in the midwest of the USA, Bruce first moved to Switzerland for his doctoral studies at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He then went to the University of British Columbia in Canada for a postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the Fonds National Suisse.

Since 2018, he has collaborated on the art project ‘ethereal fleeting’ with the goal of generating moments of reflection and provoking thoughts through the reproduction of delicate balances found in nature by synthetic means. With special interest in the transitory nature of all existence and an affinity to juxtaposition, he aims to challenge ideas that are too often held as self-evident.