Duncan Alexander Brown (born January 25, 1976) is a British-American astrophysicist and the Charles Brightman Endowed Professor of Physics at Syracuse University. He also serves as the Vice President for Research for Syracuse. Brown's research focuses on Gravitational-wave astronomy and gravitational-wave detectors.
Brown grew up in England and attended the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, graduating in 1999 with a Master of Mathematics degree. He earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in 2004, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology LIGO Laboratory and Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Group.
In 2007, Brown joined the faculty at Syracuse University. He was named the Charles Brightman Professor of Physics in 2015.