Dr Braund is a Research Fellow working within the Clinical Research Stream of the Research Directorate at the University of New South Wales, Black Dog Institute.

He completed his PhD at the University of Sydney in affiliation with the Brain Dynamics Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research. His PhD was supported by a NSW Health PhD scholarship and accelerator grant. He has been awarded the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions Early Career Researcher Award, the University of Sydney’s Peter Bancroft Prize, and the Black Dog Knowledge and Translation and Dissemination Award.

His research interests include treatment predictive markers for mental disorders and digital mental health. He is currently developing digital phenotypes for mental disorders in collaboration with the NHMRC Future Proofing Trial team and the MRFF Optimise Trial team. These phenotypes aim to detect mental illness earlier and predict treatment outcomes to save patient time, effort, cost, and suffering.