Publications
Papers & preprints
My 37 published papers and preprints. For the most up-to-date list, see my Google Scholar or NASA ADS library.
Collaborations
20 co-author papers.
- 2026Star Formation
Globular cluster abundance patterns inherited from giant molecular clouds
William McClymont, Vasily Belokurov, Sandro Tacchella, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith, Ewald Puchwein, Enrico Garaldi, Mark Vogelsberger, Stephanie Monty, Josh Borrow, Laura Keating, Xuejian Shen, Zihao Wang, Oliver Zier, Changhyun Cho, Yuki Isobe, Xihan Ji, Roberto Maiolino, Giulia Pruto
- 2026Lumina
The Lumina Project: Intergalactic Clumping and Recombination Sinks
Ali Sadain, Aaron Smith, Oliver Zier, Hyunbae Park, Teodora-Elena Bulichi, Xuejian Shen, Rahul Kannan, Rongrong Liu, Yuan Bian, Volker Springel, Mark Vogelsberger, Sonja M. Koehler, Lars Hernquist
- 2026Reionization
From THESAN-ZOOM to JWST: Predicting ionizing photon escape and the rise of UV-bright reionization sources
Zebedee Summerfield, William McClymont, Sandro Tacchella, Aaron Smith, Rahul Kannan, Enrico Garaldi, Ewald Puchwein, Xuejian Shen, Josh Borrow, A. Lola Danhaive, Laura Keating, Gabriel Maheson, Parth Mehrotra, Charlotte Simmonds, Amanda Stoffers, Mark Vogelsberger, Oliver Zier
- 2026SIDM
Role of prompt cusps in driving the core collapse of self-interacting dark matter halos
Vinh Tran, Daniel Gilman, M. Sten Delos, Xuejian Shen, Oliver Zier, Mark Vogelsberger, David Xu
- 2026Galaxy Formation
Metallicity Gradients in Modern Cosmological Simulations II: The Role of Bursty Versus Smooth Feedback at High Redshift
Alex M. Garcia, Paul Torrey, Aniket Bhagwat, Xuejian Shen, Mark Vogelsberger, William McClymont, Jaya Nagarajan-Swenson, Sophia G. Ridolfo, Peixin Zhu, Dhruv T. Zimmerman, Oliver Zier, Sarah Biddle, Arnab Sarkar, Priyanka Chakraborty, Ruby J. Wright, Kathryn Grasha, Tiago Costa, Laura Keating, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith, Enrico Garaldi, Ewald Puchwein, Benedetta Ciardi, Lars Hernquist, Lisa J. Kewley
- 2026SIDM
Novel density profile for isothermal cores of dark matter halos
Vinh Tran, Xuejian Shen, Mark Vogelsberger, Daniel Gilman, Stephanie O'Neil, Cian Roche, Oliver Zier, Jiarun Gao
- 2026Reionization
The THESAN-ZOOM project: The Hidden Neighbours of OI Absorbers during Reionization
Giulia Pruto, Laura Keating, Rahul Kannan, Ewald Puchwein, Aaron Smith, Josh Borrow, Enrico Garaldi, Mark Vogelsberger, Oliver Zier, William McClymont, Xuejian Shen, Sandro Tacchella
- 2026Reionization
The THESAN-ZOOM project: mystery N/O more — uncovering the origin of peculiar chemical abundances and a not-so-fundamental metallicity relation at 3 < z < 12
William McClymont, Sandro Tacchella, Aaron Smith, Rahul Kannan, Enrico Garaldi, Ewald Puchwein, Yuki Isobe, Xihan Ji, Xuejian Shen, Zihao Wang, Vasily Belokurov, Josh Borrow, Francesco D'Eugenio, Laura Keating, Roberto Maiolino, Stephanie Monty, Mark Vogelsberger, Oliver Zier
- 2026Non-ideal MHD
Formation of protostars and the launching of stellar core outflows with moving-mesh radiation non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics
Alexander C. Mayer, Rüdiger Pakmor, Thorsten Naab, Oliver Zier, Alexei V. Ivlev, Tommaso Grassi, Paola Caselli, Volker Springel
- 2026Reionization
The THESAN-ZOOM project: star formation efficiencies in high-redshift galaxies
Xuejian Shen, Rahul Kannan, Ewald Puchwein, Aaron Smith, Mark Vogelsberger, Josh Borrow, Enrico Garaldi, Laura Keating, Oliver Zier, William McClymont, Sandro Tacchella, Zihao Wang, Lars Hernquist
- 2026Reionization
Overmassive black holes in the early Universe can be explained by gas-rich, dark matter-dominated galaxies
William McClymont, Sandro Tacchella, Xihan Ji, Rahul Kannan, Roberto Maiolino, Charlotte Simmonds, Aaron Smith, Ewald Puchwein, Enrico Garaldi, Mark Vogelsberger, Francesco D'Eugenio, Laura Keating, Xuejian Shen, Bartolomeo Trefoloni, Oliver Zier
- 2025Reionization
The THESAN-ZOOM project: Star formation efficiency from giant molecular clouds to galactic scale in high-redshift starbursts
Zihao Wang, Xuejian Shen, Mark Vogelsberger, Hui Li, Rahul Kannan, Ewald Puchwein, Aaron Smith, Josh Borrow, Enrico Garaldi, Laura Keating, Oliver Zier, William McClymont, Sandro Tacchella, Yang Ni, Lars Hernquist
- 2025Reionization
The THESAN-ZOOM project: central starbursts and inside-out quenching govern galaxy sizes in the early Universe
William McClymont, Sandro Tacchella, Aaron Smith, Rahul Kannan, Ewald Puchwein, Josh Borrow, Enrico Garaldi, Laura Keating, Mark Vogelsberger, Oliver Zier, Xuejian Shen, Filip Popovic
- 2025Reionization
The THESAN-ZOOM project: burst, quench, repeat — unveiling the evolution of high-redshift galaxies along the star-forming main sequence
William McClymont, Sandro Tacchella, Aaron Smith, Rahul Kannan, Ewald Puchwein, Josh Borrow, Enrico Garaldi, Laura Keating, Mark Vogelsberger, Oliver Zier, Xuejian Shen, Filip Popovic, Charlotte Simmonds
- 2025Reionization
Introducing the THESAN-ZOOM project: radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of high-redshift galaxies with a multi-phase interstellar medium
Rahul Kannan, Ewald Puchwein, Aaron Smith, Josh Borrow, Enrico Garaldi, Laura Keating, Mark Vogelsberger, Oliver Zier, William McClymont, Xuejian Shen, Filip Popovic, Sandro Tacchella, Lars Hernquist, Volker Springel
- 2025Star Formation
Protostellar discs in their natural habitat — the formation of protostars and their accretion discs in the turbulent and magnetized interstellar medium
Alexander C. Mayer, Thorsten Naab, Paola Caselli, Alexei V. Ivlev, Tommaso Grassi, Oliver Zier, Rüdiger Pakmor, Stefanie Walch, Volker Springel
- 2025Reionization
The THESAN project: tracking the expansion and merger histories of ionized bubbles during the Epoch of Reionization
Nathan Jamieson, Aaron Smith, Meredith Neyer, Rahul Kannan, Enrico Garaldi, Mark Vogelsberger, Lars Hernquist, Oliver Zier, Xuejian Shen, Koki Kakiichi
- 2024Reionization
The THESAN project: galaxy sizes during the epoch of reionization
Xuejian Shen, Mark Vogelsberger, Josh Borrow, Yongao Hu, Evan Erickson, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith, Enrico Garaldi, Lars Hernquist, Takahiro Morishita, Sandro Tacchella, Oliver Zier, Guochao Sun, Anna-Christina Eilers, Hui Wang
- 2023AGN
The Accretion Mode in Sub-Eddington Supermassive Black Holes: Getting into the Central Parsecs of Andromeda
C. Alig, A. Prieto, M. Blaña, M. Frischman, C. Metzl, A. Burkert, O. Zier, A. Streblyanska
- 2021Code Development
Simulating cosmic structure formation with the GADGET-4 code
Volker Springel, Rüdiger Pakmor, Oliver Zier, Martin Reinecke