Matt Cusack
🔠Astrophysicist (pending)
Hi! 👋 I'm Matt, an astrophysics PhD student at Cardiff University working on simulations of star formation. I'm particularly interested in how the local radiation environment affects that star formation, and have explored how this affects both star and disc properties. You can see the results of these studies below, as well as other stuff I've been working on. Feel free to get in touch if you like what you see!
The Fragmentation of Molecular Clouds in Starburst Environments
Read the paper on ADS!
The Impact of Radiation Environment on the Lifetimes and Evolution of Circumstellar Discs
Check out the paper on ADS!
arepoICgen
A python package for generating initial conditions for the AREPO code.
apricot
A Fortran module for generating column-density images from AREPO snapshots.
aRead
A python module for reading AREPO snapshots in the HDF5 format.
Disc Movies
Movies of the discs from my 2026 paper!