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Overview

Nicola Tosi is affiliated with the German Aerospace Center in Germany and has contributed significantly to the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Aerospace Engineering, and Instrumentation.

The primary focus of Tosi's work lies in Astro and Planetary Science, Planetary Science and Exploration, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Scientific Research and Discoveries, and Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life.

Nicola Tosi has published frequently in several venues, with the most common being:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space Science Reviews
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Among their recent papers are:

  • "A long-lived magma ocean on a young Moon," 2020, Science Advances
  • "The Thermo-Chemical Evolution of Mars With a Strongly Stratified Mantle," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Planets
  • "Geodesy, Geophysics and Fundamental Physics Investigations of the BepiColombo Mission," 2021, Space Science Reviews
  • "ExoMDN: Rapid characterization of exoplanet interior structures with mixture density networks," 2023, Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • "Settling of inertial particles in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection," 2020, Physical Review Fluids

Nicola Tosi collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Philipp Baumeister
  • D. Breuer
  • Dennis Höning
  • John Lee Grenfell
  • Sebastiano Padovan

Best Publications

  • Asymmetric thermal evolution of the Moon

    Matthieu Laneuville;Mark Wieczorek;Doris Breuer;Nicola Tosi

  • Origin and evolution of the atmospheres of early Venus, Earth and Mars

    Helmut Lammer;Aubrey L. Zerkle;Stefanie Gebauer;Nicola Tosi

  • Thermochemical evolution of Mercury's interior

    Nicola Tosi;M. Grott;A.-C. Plesa;A.-C. Plesa;D. Breuer

  • A community benchmark for 2-D Cartesian compressible convection in the Earth's mantle

    Scott D. King;Changyeol Lee;Peter E. van Keken;Wei Leng

  • A long-lived magma ocean on a young Moon.

    M. Maurice;M. Maurice;N. Tosi;N. Tosi;S. Schwinger;D. Breuer

  • How large are present-day heat flux variations across the surface of Mars?

    A.-C. Plesa;M. Grott;N. Tosi;N. Tosi;D. Breuer

  • Onset of solid-state mantle convection and mixing during magma ocean solidification

    Maxime Maurice;Nicola Tosi;Nicola Tosi;Henri Samuel;Henri Samuel;Ana-Catalina Plesa

  • Mantle dynamics with pressure- and temperature-dependent thermal expansivity and conductivity

    Nicola Tosi;Nicola Tosi;David A. Yuen;Nico de Koker;Renata M. Wentzcovitch

  • The Thermal State and Interior Structure of Mars

    A.-C. Plesa;S. Padovan;Nicola Tosi;Nicola Tosi;D. Breuer

  • Rocky super-Earth interiors. Structure and internal dynamics of CoRoT-7b and Kepler-10b

    F.W. Wagner;Nicola Tosi;Nicola Tosi;F. Sohl;H. Rauer;H. Rauer

  • The habitability of a stagnant-lid Earth

    N. Tosi;N. Tosi;M Godolt;M Godolt;Barbara Stracke;T. Ruedas;T. Ruedas

  • What factors affect the duration and outgassing of the terrestrial magma ocean

    Athanasia Nikolaou;Nisha Katyal;Nicola Tosi;Mareike Godolt

  • Thickness of the crust of Mercury from geoid-to-topography ratios

    Sebastiano Padovan;Sebastiano Padovan;Mark A. Wieczorek;Jean-Luc Margot;Nicola Tosi;Nicola Tosi

  • A community benchmark for viscoplastic thermal convection in a 2-D square box

    Nicola Tosi;C. Stein;L. Noack;C. Hüttig

  • Bent-shaped plumes and horizontal channel flow beneath the 660 km discontinuity

    Nicola Tosi;Nicola Tosi;David A. Yuen

  • Constraining the early evolution of Venus and Earth through atmospheric Ar, Ne isotope and bulk K/U ratios

    Helmut Lammer;M. Leitzinger;M. Leitzinger;M. Scherf;P. Odert;P. Odert

  • Thermal evolution and Urey ratio of Mars

    A.-C. Plesa;Nicola Tosi;Nicola Tosi;M. Grott;D. Breuer

  • Overturn and evolution of a crystallized magma ocean: A numerical parameter study for Mars

    Nicola Tosi;Ana-Catalina Plesa;Ana-Catalina Plesa;Doris Breuer

  • The Thermo-Chemical Evolution of Mars With a Strongly Stratified Mantle

    Henri Samuel;Maxim D. Ballmer;Maxim D. Ballmer;Sebastiano Padovan;Nicola Tosi

  • Impact-induced changes in source depth and volume of magmatism on Mercury and their observational signatures

    Sebastiano Padovan;Nicola Tosi;Nicola Tosi;Ana-Catalina Plesa;Thomas Ruedas;Thomas Ruedas

  • Overturn of Ilmenite-Bearing Cumulates in a Rheologically Weak Lunar Mantle

    Shuoran Yu;Nicola Tosi;Sabrina Schwinger;Maxime Maurice

  • Receiver function imaging of the mantle transition zone beneath the South China Block

    Haibo Huang;Nicola Tosi;Nicola Tosi;Sung-Joon Chang;Shaohong Xia

Frequent Co-Authors

Doris Breuer
Doris Breuer German Aerospace Center
Ana-Catalina Plesa
Ana-Catalina Plesa German Aerospace Center
Tilman Spohn
Tilman Spohn German Aerospace Center
Heike Rauer
Heike Rauer Freie Universität Berlin
Grégoire Montavon
Grégoire Montavon Freie Universität Berlin
Mark A. Wieczorek
Mark A. Wieczorek Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
David A. Yuen
David A. Yuen Columbia University
Helmut Lammer
Helmut Lammer Austrian Academy of Sciences
Nikolai V. Erkaev
Nikolai V. Erkaev Siberian Federal University
Manuel Güdel
Manuel Güdel University of Vienna

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