 1992), where he lived in Blacker Hovse (sharing a room with Ian Agol) and was awarded the George Green Prize for Creative Scholarship.His graduate studies were done at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge with Andrew Fabian.From 1996 to 1997 Brandt held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics where he worked with colleagues including Martin Elvis and Belinda Wilkes.