David Chandos Brydges (born 1 July 1949 in Chester, UK) is a mathematical physicist.
Brydges is concerned with mathematical quantum field theory and statistical mechanics.
In 1985 he and Thomas C. Spencer introduced "lace expansion" for the analysis of the self-avoiding walk.
In 2010 he was, with Gordon Slade, an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad.
[3] In 2024, he received the Henri Poincaré Prize from the International Association of Mathematical Physics.