Colin Bundschu
Postdoctoral Fellow

Colin Bundschu is a BIDMaP Postdoctoral Fellow whose work focuses on the high-throughput theoretical characterization of order and disorder in functional materials. He earned his PhD in Applied Physics from Cornell University, where he developed and applied density functional theory (DFT) and machine-learning workflows to elucidate the oxygen reduction reaction on spinel oxides. His research spans density functional theory, high-throughput materials discovery, electrochemistry and catalysis, machine learning, order/disorder phenomena in materials, and sustainable energy.

In his postdoctoral work, Colin combines advanced computational methods and automated pipelines to unravel how atomic-scale ordering influences the properties of energy-relevant materials, with the goal of accelerating the design of next-generation catalysts and functional oxides.