Robert H. Brandenberger (born 1956) is a Swiss-Canadian theoretical cosmologist and a professor of physics at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Brandenberger completed his undergraduate degree at ETH Zurich, in Switzerland, and went on to receive his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

[1] He was a postdoctoral student under Stephen Hawking at the DAMTP at Cambridge University.

[2] He also did postdoctoral work at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara.

[5] Robert Brandenberger developed the theory of string gas cosmology, with colleague Cumrun Vafa.