Patrick Brady received his B.Sc. from University College Dublin in 1988 and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Alberta in 1994 where he studied with Werner Israel. He was a research associate at University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1993-1995, a Prize Fellow at Caltech from 1995-1998 and a research associate at University of California, Santa Barbara from 1998-1999. Since 1999, Brady has been at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he holds the rank of Distinguished Professor and is Director of the Leonard E Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology, and Astrophysics. Brady has been a Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar, a Sloan Research Fellow, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He served as Spokesperson (leader) of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration from 2019-2025. Brady is a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research focuses on the analysis and interpretation of data from the worldwide network of gravitational-wave detectors.