Publications
A complete list of my published and submitted papers. For the most up-to-date list, visit my Google Scholar profile.
First-Author Papers
Papers where I led the research and writing.
- 2025Reionization
The THESAN-ZOOM project: Population III star formation continues until the end of reionization
Oliver Zier, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith, Ewald Puchwein, Mark Vogelsberger, Josh Borrow, Enrico Garaldi, Laura Keating, William McClymont, Xuejian Shen, Lars Hernquist
accepted by MNRAS
- 2025Reionization
The THESAN-ZOOM project: Long-term imprints of external reionization on galaxy evolution
Oliver Zier, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith, Ewald Puchwein, Mark Vogelsberger, Josh Borrow, Enrico Garaldi, Laura Keating, William McClymont, Xuejian Shen, Lars Hernquist
accepted by MNRAS
- 2024HPC / GPU
Adapting AREPO-RT for exascale computing: GPU acceleration and efficient communication
Oliver Zier, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith, Mark Vogelsberger, Erkin Verbeek
MNRAS 533(1), 268–286
- 2024Non-ideal MHD
Non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics on a moving mesh II: Hall effect
Oliver Zier, Alexander C. Mayer, Volker Springel
MNRAS 527(1), 8355–8368
- 2024Non-ideal MHD
Non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics on a moving mesh I: Ohmic and ambipolar diffusion
Oliver Zier, Volker Springel, Alexander C. Mayer
MNRAS 527(1), 1563–1579
- 2023Disk Instabilities
Gravito-turbulence in local disc simulations with an adaptive moving mesh
Oliver Zier, Volker Springel
MNRAS 520(2), 3097–3116
- 2022Disk Instabilities
Simulating the magnetorotational instability on a moving-mesh with the shearing box approximation
Oliver Zier, Volker Springel
MNRAS 517(2), 2639–2658
- 2022Numerical Methods
Simulating cold shear flows on a moving mesh
Oliver Zier, Volker Springel
MNRAS 515(1), 525–542
- 2021Star Formation
On the Interaction of a Bonnor–Ebert Sphere with a Stellar Wind
Oliver Zier, Andreas Burkert, Christian Alig
ApJ 915, 7
- 2019Fluid Dynamics
On low-Prandtl-number convection in an inclined layer of liquid mercury
Oliver Zier, Walter Zimmermann, Werner Pesch
JFM 874, 76–101
Key Collaborations
Major code papers and collaborative projects with significant contributions.
- 2021Code Development
Simulating cosmic structure formation with the GADGET-4 code
Volker Springel, Rüdiger Pakmor, Oliver Zier, Martin Reinecke
MNRAS 506(2), 2871–2949
Second-Author Papers
Papers where I contributed significantly as a co-author.
- 2025Galaxy Formation
The Cosmic Rush Hour: Rapid Formation of Bright, Massive, Disky, Star-Forming Galaxies as Signatures of Early-Universe Physics
Xuejian Shen, Oliver Zier, Mark Vogelsberger, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Lars Hernquist, Sandro Tacchella, Rohan P. Naidu
submitted to MNRAS
- 2025Reionization
High-redshift AGN population in radiation-hydrodynamics simulations
Teodora-Elena Bulichi, Oliver Zier, Aaron Smith, Mark Vogelsberger, Anna-Christina Eilers, Rahul Kannan, Xuejian Shen, Ewald Puchwein, Enrico Garaldi, Josh Borrow
submitted to MNRAS
- 2025Non-ideal MHD
Moving-mesh non-ideal magnetohydrodynamical simulations of the collapse of cloud cores to protostars
Alexander C. Mayer, Oliver Zier, Thorsten Naab, Rüdiger Pakmor, Paola Caselli, Alexei V. Ivlev, Volker Springel, Stefanie Walch
MNRAS 537(1), 379–401