Although he has never made any varnish or violins, Bruce Tai has published about the chemical analysis of Cremonese varnishes, summarizing others’ findings. He’s a chemistry PhD who will soon become a chemistry professor at National Taiwan University and hopes to start varnish experiments there. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School studying Alzheimer’s disease. A native of Taiwan, his given name is Hwan-Ching; he took Bruce as a nickname while spending a childhood year in the USA.

▪ bio current as of 2011