Prof. Jeandrew Brink completed her Bachelor of Sciences degree at the University of the Free State (UFS) in 1998 and subsequently a Honours (1999) and Master’s degree (2000) in Applied Mathematics also at UFS.

A Fulbright Travel Grant and a two-year research fellowship from Cornell University permitted her to perform work toward a PhD in theoretical physics in the United States. Her thesis explored the pulsation modes of neutron stars.