Brian Schmidt jẹ Ọjọgbọn Iyatọ ti Aworawo ni Ile-ẹkọ giga ti Orilẹ-ede Ọstrelia. Fun iṣẹ rẹ lori agbaye ti o yara, Brian Schmidt gẹgẹbi oludari ti ẹgbẹ wiwa giga-Z SN ni a fun ni ẹbun Nobel Prize 2011 ni Fisiksi, ni apapọ pẹlu Adam Riess ati Saulu Perlmutter. Schmidt ti ṣiṣẹ kọja ọpọlọpọ awọn agbegbe ti Aworawo pẹlu supernovae, gamma ray Bursts, awọn akoko igbi walẹ, exo-planets, ati awọn irawọ talaka irin.
Brian pari apapọ awọn iwọn oye oye ni astronomy ati fisiksi ni University of Arizona (1989), alefa tituntosi astronomy (1992) ati PhD (1993) lati Ile-ẹkọ giga Harvard. Lẹhin idapo postdoctoral ni Ile-iṣẹ Harvard-Smithsonian fun Astrophysics, Brian Schmidt darapọ mọ oṣiṣẹ ti Ile-ẹkọ giga ti Orilẹ-ede Ọstrelia ni ọdun 1995.
Ni ọdun 2000 Schmidt ni ami-ẹri ifilọlẹ akọkọ ti Ijọba ilu Ọstrelia Malcolm McIntosh fun aṣeyọri ninu awọn sáyẹnsì ti ara, ni ọdun 2006 o fun ni ẹbun Shaw fun Aworawo ni apapọ, o si pin Ẹbun 2007 Gruber fun Cosmology ati 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Physics SN Search Team ẹlẹgbẹ. O ṣiṣẹ bi Igbakeji Alakoso 12th ati Alakoso Ile-ẹkọ giga ti Orilẹ-ede Australia lati 2016-2023.