Brandon Fisel was born and raised in the small town of Hebron, Indiana. Brandon grew to love the weather at a young age. Growing up in northwest Indiana, he has experienced the beauty of lake-effect snow in the winter and severe convective storms in the summer, fulfilling his desire to become a meteorologist.

Brandon attended Hebron High School and after graduation he enrolled in studies at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. At Ball State, he was offered a position to be among a few to make a severe weather documentary that was later aired on PBS and other large television markets. Afterwards, his enormous interest in storm chasing led him to become an officer on Ball State's storm chase team. Additionally, he gained the title as webmaster for the team. Also, during his time in Muncie, Indiana Brandon interned at the Indianapolis NWS Weather Forecast Office (WFO) and at Indianapolis University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). While interning at the NWS, he aided WFO employees to develop an expertise in geographic information systems (GIS). Similarily at IUPUI, he worked closely with several Indiana counties in their development of a GIS database that was later integrated into the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) HAZUS model. In the spring of 2007, Brandon received his Bachelor of Science degree from Ball State University in Operational Meteorology and Climatology and Geographic Information Systems.

Brandon's primary hobbies are storm chasing and photography. He will storm chase whenever he has an opportunity to do so, however he has made it his passion to chase in the Great Plains every summer. In doing so, he hopes to create an extensive library of severe and non-severe weather phenomena.

When Brandon is not engaged in his studies, he enjoys spending time with friends and family, weight lifting, racquetball, and tai chi chuan. Brandon also has an appreciation for philosophy and enjoys discussion in philosophical theory.

Brandon is currently working on his Master of Science Degree in Meteorology at Iowa State University. He is engaged in a research assistantship for a project that is supported by a U.S. Department of Energy grant entitled Collaborative Research: Towards Advanced Understanding and Predictive Capability of Climate Change in the Arctic Using a High-Resolution Regional Arctic Climate System Model.

Brandon is a member of the American Meteorological Society, National Weather Association, and SKYWARN.