Frances Mary Theresa Brazier (born 1957) is a Dutch computer scientist, known as one of the founders of NLnet, the first Internet service provider in the Netherlands and one of the first in Europe.
[2] Brazier was born in Toronto, and moved to the Netherlands as a teenager.
[3] She studied mathematics, computer science, and cognitive psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, earning a master's degree in 1983, and completing a doctorate in 1991.
[4] Her dissertation was Design and evaluation of a user interface for information retrieval, promoted by Reinder van de Riet [5] and Sipke Fokkema.
[4] She moved to Delft University of Technology in 2009 [2] where she holds the chair of systems engineering foundations.