Oliver Zier

Oliver Zier earned Bachelor`s degrees in physics and computer science from the University of Bayreuth in Germany and a Master’s degree in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics from the University of Munich. In 2023, under the advisory of Prof. Volker Springel, he completed his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. In 2023, Zier began working as a postdoc associate in the Vogelsberger Lab at MIT and will join the CFA as an ITC fellow in 2024.

Oliver is interested in developing and applying state-of-the-art numerical methods to astrophysical problems. He primarily works with the GADGET and AREPO codes, which he also continuously extends. During his PhD, he studied the small-scale physics of protoplanetary disks using the shearing box approximation.

At MIT, he ported the radiative transfer solver to GPUs in AREPO to allow significantly more expensive simulations of the early universe.

As part of the THESAN team, he will study the epoch of reionization on large scales at CFA.