Sylvia Ploeckinger: Simulating galaxy formation and evolution with COLIBRE

Tuesday 5 May 2026, 13:15 → 14:15 Europe/Stockholm

FB51 (AlbaNova Main Building)

The COLIBRE project (http://colibre-simulations.org) is a new large cosmological simulation project. In cosmological volumes of different sizes and resolution levels, we use COLIBRE to model the formation and evolution of up to 900,000 resolved galaxies for almost 14 billion years. I will present the critical ingredients of these simulations and the first lessons learned from COLIBRE: from galaxies in the early Universe to galaxies in the local Universe. 

About the speaker: My research field is computational galaxy formation. I am developing and analysing complex cosmological simulations. I am particularly interested in isolating the impacts of the dark matter microphysics on galaxy formation. I obtained my PhD at the University of Vienna (Austria) and have since had postdoc positions and fellowships at the University of Leiden (NL) and the University of Durham (UK). Currently, I am leading two independent research projects at the University of Vienna (Austria). 

At the OKC:  Monday afternoon through Wednesday, CoPS corridor A5.