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Dr Zoe Leinhardt
Dr Zoe Leinhardt
BA (Carleton College), MSc (Univ. of Washington), PhD (Univ. of Maryland)
Senior Lecturer
Area of research
Planet Formation Group
Summary
I am a computational astrophysicist. My research interests focus on the formation and evolution of planets and small bodies, such as asteroids and comets through the use of numerical simulations. There is more information on my group's research page.
Teaching
I am actively involved in both teaching and research in the School of Physics. This year I am teaching two undergraduate lecture courses -- the Planets module of Stars and Planets and Electricity and Magnetism. I am also supervising a number of research projects (both undergraduate and postgraduate) investigating various aspects of planet formation.
Keywords
- planetary astrophysics
- solar system evolution
- collisional physics
- numerical methods
Recent publications
- Su, KYL, Jackson, AP, Gáspár, A, Rieke, GH, Dong, R, Olofsson, J, Kennedy, GM, Leinhardt, ZM, Malhotra, R, Hammer, M, Meng, HYA, Rujopakarn, W, Rodriguez, JE, Pepper, J, Reichart, DE, James, D & Stassun, KG, 2019, ‘Extreme Debris Disk Variability: Exploring the Diverse Outcomes of Large Asteroid Impacts during the Era of Terrestrial Planet Formation’. Astronomical Journal, vol 157.
- Bonomo, AS, Zeng, L, Damasso, M, Leinhardt, ZM, Justesen, AB, Lopez, E, Lund, MN, Malavolta, L, Aguirre, VS, Buchhave, LA, Corsaro, E, Denman, T, Lopez-Morales, M, Mills, SM, Mortier, A, Rice, K, Sozzetti, A, Vanderburg, A, Affer, L, Arentoft, T, Benbakoura, M, Bouchy, F, Christensen-Dalsgaard, J, Cameron, AC, Cosentino, R, Dressing, CD, Dumusque, X, Figueira, P, Fiorenzano, AFM, García, RA, Handberg, R, Harutyunyan, A, Johnson, JA, Kjeldsen, H, Latham, DW, Lovis, C, Lundkvist, MS, Mathur, S, Mayor, M, Micela, G & others 2019, ‘A giant impact as the likely origin of different twins in the Kepler-107 exoplanet system’. Nature Astronomy, vol 3., pp. 416-423
- Carter, PJ, Leinhardt, ZM, Elliott, T, Stewart, ST & Walter, MJ, 2018, ‘Collisional stripping of planetary crusts’. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol 484., pp. 276-286
- Lock, SJ, Stewart, ST, Petaev, MI, Leinhardt, Z, Mace, MT, Jacobsen, SB & Cuk, M, 2018, ‘The Origin of the Moon Within a Terrestrial Synestia’. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, vol 123., pp. 910-951
- Hin, RC, Coath, CD, Carter, PJ, Nimmo, F, Lai, Y-J, von Strandmann, PAEP, Willbold, M, Leinhardt, ZM, Walter, MJ & Elliott, T, 2017, ‘Magnesium isotope evidence that accretional vapour loss shapes planetary compositions’. Nature, vol 549., pp. 511-515
- Veras, D, Carter, PJ, Leinhardt, ZM & Gaensicke, BT, 2017, ‘Explaining the variability of WD 1145+017 with simulations of asteroid tidal disruption’. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol 465., pp. 1008-1022
- Lines, S, Leinhardt, Z, Carter, P, Paardekooper, S-J & Baruteau, C, 2016, ‘Modelling circumbinary protoplanetary disks: II. Gas disk feedback on planetesimal dynamical and collisional evolution in the circumbinary systems Kepler-16 and 34’. Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol 590.
- Dobinson, J, Leinhardt, ZM, Lines, SM, Carter, PJ, Dodson-Robinson, SE & Teanby, NA, 2016, ‘Hiding in the shadows. II.: Collisional dust as exoplanet markers’. Astrophysical Journal, vol 820.
- Bonsor, A, Leinhardt, ZM, Carter, PJ, Elliott, T, Walter, MJ & Stewart, ST, 2015, ‘A collisional origin to Earth's non-chondritic composition?’. Icarus, vol 247., pp. 291-300
- Lines, SM, Leinhardt, ZM, Baruteau, C, Paardekooper, S-J & Carter, PJ, 2015, ‘Modelling circumbinary protoplanetary disks: I. Fluid simulations of the Kepler-16 and 34 systems’. Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol 582.
Courses
Dr Leinhardt currently teaches 4 courses:
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