He is Professor for Social Networks at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, in the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences.
[2] His dissertation, Layout of Graph Visualizations, concerned graph drawing, and was jointly supervised by Dorothea Wagner and Michael Kaufmann.
[3] After completing a habilitation in 2002, and taking an assistant professorship at the University of Passau, he returned to Konstanz as a professor in 2003, before moving to ETH Zurich.
[2] Brandes is the coauthor of the book Studying Social Networks: A Guide to Empirical Research (Campus Verlag / Chicago University Press, 2012, with Marina Hennig, Jürgen Pfeffer, and Ines Mergel).
His edited volumes include Network Analysis: Methodological Foundations (Springer, 2005, edited with Thomas Erlebach)[4] as well as several conference proceedings.