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Brian O'Shea’s research focuses on theoretical numerical studies of galaxy formation evolution, primarily using Enzo adaptive mesh refinement code. He is particularly interested in star formation, galactic chemical evolution, and the astrophysics of galaxy clusters. O'Shea's work employs petascale computing to tackle problems in astrophysics that rely on numerical simulations to advance theoretical understanding. The questions he poses have become increasingly complex, and his calculations represent significant efforts to provide answers. He holds a joint faculty appointment in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science & Engineering, and is a member of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, the Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering, and the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation. In October 2016, O'Shea was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society for his outstanding contributions to cosmological structure formation studies using large-scale supercomputing and his leadership in the development of computational science research and education.
Department of Psychology