Professor Zoe Leinhardt
BA (Carleton College), MSc (Univ. of Washington), PhD (Univ. of Maryland)
Current positions
Professor of Physics
School of Physics
Contact
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Research interests
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.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Forming exo-Mercuries: Making dense planets by impacts
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of PhysicsDates
01/04/2024 to 31/03/2027
The chemical consequences of vapour loss during planetary accretion
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of PhysicsDates
01/11/2020 to 31/10/2025
Physical Constraints on the Likelihood of Accreting a Non-chondritic Earth
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of PhysicsDates
01/05/2013 to 01/06/2016
Fellowship Zoe Leinhardt
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of PhysicsDates
01/09/2010 to 01/09/2015
Thesis supervisions
Collisions of Super-Earth and Sub-Neptune Planets.
Supervisors
Isolating the Extreme Debris Disk Signature - Explorations of Eccentric Extreme Debris Disks Formed by Giant Impacts
Supervisors
Formation of Iron Rich Bodies via Giant Impacts
Supervisors
Exploring the dependence of measured spectral range on retrieved atmospheric parameters
Supervisors
Formation and evolution of extreme debris disks through giant impacts of planetary embryos
Supervisors
Charged Dust Dynamics in Saturn's Rings
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/02/2025Aerosols are not Spherical Cows
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Atmospheric Loss during Giant Impacts: Mechanisms and Scaling of Near- and Far-field Loss
Planetary Science Journal
The PLATO mission
Experimental Astronomy
Exploring the catastrophic regime:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Formation of super-Mercuries via giant impacts
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
