Moritz S. Fischer

Astrophysicist

Postdoc

Moritz S. Fischer

Astrophysicist

Postdoc

About Me

I'm a postdoc in the CAST group at the University Observatory Munich and part of the excellence cluster Origins. My research interests are astrophysics on large-scales and models beyond ΛCDM. I prefer to work numerically, including all the way from new ideas for numerical schemes to the analysis of simulation data.

In my research, I focuse on the phenomenology of dark matter with frequent self-interactions (small-angle scattering). N-body simulations are employed to study how self-interactions can alter the distribution of dark matter. In particular, I have developed a numerical scheme that allows – for the first time – to simulate galaxy cluster mergers or do cosmological simulations with this type of self-interaction. For more details, see my publications or the darkium webpage.

My Research Interests
Dark Matter and Cosmology
Simulation Code Development
Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Numerical Methods
Resume
Academic positions
2022 - present
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

I am a postdoc in the CAST group with Prof. K. Dolag working on simulations of self-interacting dark matter.

Education
2019 - 2022
PhD Student
University Hamburg

I did my doctorate on simulations of self-interacting dark matter at the Hamburg Observatory and was part of the excellence cluster Quantum Universe. Supervisors: Prof. M. Brüggen and Dr. K. Schmidt-Hoberg.

2017-2018
Master in Physics
University Heidelberg

Master thesis with Dr. A. Pillepich at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg.

2013 - 2017
Bachelor in Physics
University Heidelberg

Bachelor thesis with Prof. H. Klahr at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg.

My Skills
Coding
  • C++
    13.8 yrs
  • Python
    7.1 yrs
Languages
  • English
  • German
All Publications

Find them on orcid or ads or inspire or arXiv.

Selected Publications
Dynamical friction from self-interacting dark matter
Numerical challenges for energy conservation in N-body simulations of collapsing self-interacting dark matter halos
Cosmological and idealised simulations of dark matter haloes with velocity-dependent, rare and frequent self-interactions
Sensitivity of halo shape measurements
Unequal-mass mergers of dark matter haloes with rare and frequent self-interactions
PhD Thesis
Simulations of Dark Matter with Frequent and Rare Self-Interactions
(Co-)Supervised Students
Cenanda Arido

Worked as a master's student on angular-dependent self-interactions

David Klemmer

Works as a master's student on the evolution of self-interacting dark matter haloes

Yashraj Patil

Works as a master's student on galaxies in galaxy clusters

Marc Wiertel

Master thesis on Simulation of SIDM with angular-velocity-dependent cross sections

Interns
Claudius Hammer
Katharina Hollingshausen
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