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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.

  1. 2025
    Reionization

    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

  2. 2025
    Reionization

    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

  3. 2024
    HPC / 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

  4. 2024
    Non-ideal MHD

    Non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics on a moving mesh II: Hall effect

    Oliver Zier, Alexander C. Mayer, Volker Springel

    MNRAS 527(1), 8355–8368

  5. 2024
    Non-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

  6. 2023
    Disk Instabilities

    Gravito-turbulence in local disc simulations with an adaptive moving mesh

    Oliver Zier, Volker Springel

    MNRAS 520(2), 3097–3116

  7. 2022
    Disk Instabilities

    Simulating the magnetorotational instability on a moving-mesh with the shearing box approximation

    Oliver Zier, Volker Springel

    MNRAS 517(2), 2639–2658

  8. 2022
    Numerical Methods

    Simulating cold shear flows on a moving mesh

    Oliver Zier, Volker Springel

    MNRAS 515(1), 525–542

  9. 2021
    Star Formation

    On the Interaction of a Bonnor–Ebert Sphere with a Stellar Wind

    Oliver Zier, Andreas Burkert, Christian Alig

    ApJ 915, 7

  10. 2019
    Fluid 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.

  1. 2021
    Code 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.

  1. 2025
    Galaxy 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

  2. 2025
    Reionization

    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

  3. 2025
    Non-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