Dr Zoe Leinhardt
BA (Carleton College), MSc (Univ. of Washington), PhD (Univ. of Maryland)
Current positions
Associate Professor
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
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
Publications
Recent publications
01/07/2023A chance of rain
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Planetary embryo collisions and the wiggly nature of extreme debris discs
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Are exoplanetesimals differentiated?
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Atmosphere loss in planet-planet collisions
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
A giant impact as the likely origin of different twins in the Kepler-107 exoplanet system
Nature Astronomy
