He is a graduate of Albion College and completed his graduate studies in Chemistry at UC Berkeley in the group of Prof. Daniel Neumark. Dr. Bragg conducted post-doctoral research in the group of Prof. Benjamin Schwartz at UCLA. He joined the Chemistry faculty at JHU in 2010 and has built a research group focused on fundamental ultrafast spectroscopy and dynamics that underlie the photoresponsive behaviors of conjugated and plasmonic nanoparticle systems with material applications. Research topics of current interest in his group include: nonadiabatic photochemical bond formation and molecular photoswitching; dynamics of multiple exciton generation in organic materials; structure and dynamics of excited state localization in conjugated polymers; charge transfer in hybrid and assembled organic materials; and the photophysics and charge-transfer in plasmonic (metallic) nanomaterials.