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Brian O'Shea’s research focuses on theoretical numerical studies of galaxy formation and evolution, primarily using the Enzo adaptive mesh refinement code. He is particularly interested in star formation, galactic chemical evolution, and the astrophysics of galaxy clusters. His work also delves into petascale computing and the challenges that arise in astrophysical problems that rely on numerical simulations to make theoretical progress. The questions he addresses have become increasingly complex, and his calculations strive to answer these significant challenges. O'Shea holds a joint faculty appointment in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science & Engineering. He 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, he was honored as a Fellow of the American Physical Society for his outstanding contributions to the study of cosmological structure formation using large-scale supercomputing and for his leadership in the development of computational science research and education.
Department of Psychology