Frances Mary Theresa Brazier (born 1957) is a Dutch computer scientist, known as one of the founders of

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, the first

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in the Netherlands and one of the first in Europe. She is a professor in Engineering Systems Foundations at the

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, where her research concerns

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s and participatory systems design.

Education and career

Brazier was born in

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, and moved to the Netherlands as a teenager. She studied mathematics, computer science, and cognitive psychology at

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, earning a master's degree in 1983, and completing a doctorate in 1991. Her dissertation was ''Design and evaluation of a user interface for information retrieval'', promoted by

Reinder van de Riet Reinder Pieter (Reind) van de Riet (22 April 1939, Groningen – 18 December 2008, Baarn) was a Dutch computer scientist and Emeritus Professor Information Systems at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, known for the development of COLOR-X, a lingui ...

and Sipke Fokkema. She became an assistant professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 1991, an associate professor in 1998, and professor in the chair of intelligent interactive distributed systems in 2000. She moved to Delft University of Technology in 2009 where she holds the chair of systems engineering foundations.

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Vrouwen in de Wetenschap: Frances Brazier
ATRIA, 15 March 2021 {{DEFAULTSORT:Brazier, Frances Living people Dutch computer scientists Dutch women computer scientists Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology 1957 births