Publications

Underlined names indicate supervised PhDs and PostDocs

2024

• M. Cano Amoros, Nettelmann N., N. Tosi, P. Baumeister and H. Rauer (2024). H₂-H₂O demixing in Uranus and Neptune: Adiabatic structure models. Astronomy & Astrophysics, arXiv:2410.21099. In press.
• Meier T. G., D. J. Bower, T. Lichtenberg, M. Hammond, P. J. Tackley, R. T. Pierrehumbert, J. A. Caballero, S.-M. Tsai, M. Weiner Mansfield, N. Tosi and P. Baumeister (2024). Geodynamics of super-Earth GJ 486b. Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, 129, e2024JE008491, doi:10.1029/2024JE008491, arXiv:2408.10851.
• Fleury A., A.-C. Plesa, N. Tosi, M. Walterova and D. Breuer (2024). Variations of heat flux and elastic thickness of Mercury from 3-D thermal evolution modeling. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL110622, doi:10.1029/2024GL110622, ESSO Archive: 10.22541/essoar.172900776.60376472/v1.
• Nettelmann N., M. Cano Amoros, N. Tosi, J. J. Fortney and R. Helled (2024). Atmospheric helium abundances in the giant planets. Space Science Review, 220, 56, doi:10.1007/s11214-024-01090-1, arXiv:2406.16024.
• Maurice M., N. Tosi and C. Hüttig (2024). Small-scale overturn of high-Ti cumulates promoted by the long lifetime of the lunar magma ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets, 129 (2), e2023JE008060, doi:10.1029/2023JE008060.

2023

• Baumeister P. and N. Tosi (2023). ExoMDN: Rapid characterization of exoplanet interior structures with Mixture Density Networks. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 676, A106, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202346216, arXiv:2306.09002, ExoMDN Github repository.
• Baumeister P., N. Tosi, C. Brachmann, J. L. Grenfell and L. Noack (2023). Redox state and interior structure control on the long-term habitability of stagnant-lid planets. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 675, A122, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202245791. arXiv:2301.03466.
• Yu S., X. Xiao, S. Gong, N. Tosi, J. Huang, D. Breuer, L. Xiao and Dongdong Ni (2023). Long-lived lunar volcanism sustained by precession-driven core-mantle friction. National Science Review, 11, 2, doi:/10.1093/nsr/nwad276.
• Cabrera J. et al. (110 authors incl. P. Baumeister and N. Tosi) (2023). The planetary system around HD 190622 (TOI-1054). Measuring the gas content of low-mass planets orbiting F-stars. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 675, A183, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202245774.
• Le Maistre S. et al. (25 authors incl. N. Tosi) (2023). Spin state and deep interior structure of Mars from InSight radio tracking. Nature, 619, 733-737, doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06150-0.
• MacKenzie J., J.L. Grenfell, P. Baumeister, N. Tosi, J. Cabrera and H. Rauer (2023). Effect of improved atmospheric opacities in modeling sub-Neptunes. A case study for GJ 1214 b. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 671, A65, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202141784.

2022

• Patočka V., N. Tosi and E. Calzavarini (2022). Residence time of inertial particles in 3D thermal convection: Implications for magma reservoirs. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 591, 117622, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117622, arXiv:2202.12633.
• Kawamura T. et al. (39 authors incl. N. Tosi) (2022). An autonomous lunar geophysical experiment package (ALGEP) for future space missions. Experimental Astronomy, doi:10.1007/s10686-022-09857-6.
• Dehant V. et al. (34 authors incl. N. Tosi) (2022). From Science Questions to Solar System Exploration. In: Planetary Exploration Horizon 2061, M. Blanc (ed.), Ch. 3, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/B978-0-323-90226-7.00006-4, arXiv:2211.04474.

2021

• Agarwal S., N. Tosi, P. Kessel, D. Breuer and G. Montavon (2021). Deep learning for surrogate modeling of two-dimensional mantle convection. Physical Review Fluids, 6, 113801, doi:10.1103/PhysRevFluids.00.003800, arXiv:2108.10105.
• Höning D., P. Baumeister, J.L. Grenfell, N. Tosi and M.J. Way (2021). Early habitability and crustal decarbonation of a stagnant-lid Venus. Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets, 126, e2021JE006895, doi:10.1029/2021JE006895, arXiv:2109.08756.
• Genova A., H. Hussmann , T. Van Hoolst, D. Heyner, L. Iess, F. Santoli, N. Thomas, P. Cappuccio, I. di Stefano, P. Kolhey, B. Langlais, J.Z.D. Mieth, J.S. Oliveira, A. Stark, G. Steinbrügge, N. Tosi, J. Wicht and J. Benkhoff (2021). Geodesy, geophysics and fundamental physics investigations of the BepiColombo mission. Space Science Review, 217:31, doi:10.1007/s11214-021-00808-9.
• Plesa A.-C., E. Bozdag, A. Rivoldini, M. Knapmeyer, S. M. McLennan, S. Padovan, N. Tosi, D. Breuer, D. Peter, S. Stähler , M. A. Wieczorek, M. van Driel, A. Khan, T. Spohn (2021). Seismic velocity variations in a 3D Martian mantle: Implications for the InSight measurements, Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets, 126, e2020JE006755, doi:10.1029/2020JE006755.
• Samuel E., M. Ballmer, S. Padovan, N. Tosi, A. Rivoldini and A.-C. Plesa (2021). The thermo‐chemical evolution of Mars with a strongly stratified mantle. Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets, 126(4), doi:10.1029/2020JE006613.
• Agarwal S., N. Tosi, P. Kessel, S. Padovan, D. Breuer and G. Montavon (2021). Towards constraining Mars’ thermal evolution using machine learning. Earth and Space Science, 8(4), e2020EA001484, doi:10.1029/2020EA001484.
• Tosi N. and S. Padovan (2021). Mercury, Moon, Mars: Surface expressions of mantle convection and interior evolution of stagnant-lid bodies. In Mantle Convection and Surface Expressions, H. Marquardt, M. Ballmer, S. Cottar and J. Konter (eds.), AGU Monograph Series, Ch. 17, 455-489, doi:10.1002/9781119528609.ch17, arXiv:1912.05207.

2020

• Foley B. J., C. Houser, L. Noack, and N. Tosi (2020). The heat budget of rocky planets. In Planetary Diversity: Rocky Planet Processes and Their Observational Signatures, E. J. Tasker, Y. Fujii, M. Laneuville, C. Unterborn, S. J. Desch, H. E. Hartnett (eds.), IOP Publishing, doi:10.1088/2514-3433/abb4d9ch4.
• Patočka V., E. Calzavarini and N. Tosi (2020). Settling of inertial particles in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection. Physical Review Fluids, 5, 114304, doi:10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.114304. Chosen for Editors’ highlights.
• Maurice M., N. Tosi, S. Schwinger, D. Breuer and T. Kleine (2020). A long-lived magma ocean on a young Moon. Science Advances, 6(28), doi:10.1126/sciadv.aba8949. Press coverage: DLR, Sky & Telescope, space.com
• Agarwal S., N. Tosi, D. Breuer, S. Padovan, P. Kessel and G. Montavon (2020). A machine-learning-based surrogate model of Mars’ thermal evolution. Geophysical Journal International, 222, 3, 1656-1670, doi:10.1093/gji/ggaa234.
• Patočka V., O. Šramek and N. Tosi (2020). Minimum heat flow from the core and thermal evolution of the Earth. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 305, 106457, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2020.106457.
• Stüeken E.E., S.M. Som, M. Claire, S. Rugheimer, M. Scherf, L. Sproß, N. Tosi, Y. Ueno and H.Lammer (2020). Mission to planet Earth: The first two billion years. Space Science Review, 216:31, doi:10.1007/s11214-020-00652-3.
• Baumeister P., S. Padovan, N. Tosi, G. Montavon, N. Nettelmann, J. MacKenzie, M. Godolt (2020). Machine learning inference of the interior structure of low-mass exoplanets. The Astrophysical Journal, 889, 1, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab5d32. arXiv:1911:12745.
• Lammer H., M. Leitzinger, M. Scherf, P. Odert, C. Burger, D. Kubyshkina, C. Johnstone, T. Maindl, C.M. Schäfer, M. Güdel, N. Tosi, A. Nikolaou, E. Marcq, N.V. Erkaev, L.Noack, G. Kislyakova, L. Fossati, E.Pilat-Lohinger, F. Ragossnig, E.A. Dorfi (2020). Constraining the early evolution of Venus and Earth through atmospheric Ar, Ne isotope and bulk K/U ratios. Icarus, 339, 113551, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2019.113551.
• Schulz F., N. Tosi, A.-C. Plesa, D. Breuer (2020). Stagnant-lid convection with diffusion and dislocation creep rheology: Influence of a non-evolving grain size. Geophysical Journal International, 220(1), 18-36, doi:10.1093/gji/ggz417.

2019

• Höning D., N. Tosi, T. Spohn (2019). Carbon cycling and interior evolution of water-covered plate tectonics and stagnant lid planets. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 627, A48, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201935091. arXiv:1905.12392.
• Nikolaou A., N. Katyal, N. Tosi, M. Godolt, J. L. Grenfell, H. Rauer (2019). What factors affect the duration and outgassing of the terrestrial magma ocean? The Astrophysical Journal, 875, 11, doi:10.3847/15384357/ab08ed. arXiv:1903.07436.
• Katyal N., A. Nikolaou, M. Godolt, J. L. Grenfell, N. Tosi, F. Schreier, H. Rauer (2019). Evolution and spectral response of a steam atmosphere for early Earth with a coupled climate-interior model. The Astrophysical Journal, 875, 31, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab0d85. arXiv:1903.04623.
• Godolt M., N. Tosi, B. Stracke, J. L. Grenfell, T. Ruedas, T. Spohn, H. Rauer (2019). The habitability of stagnant-lid Earths around dwarf stars. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 625, A12, doi:10.1051/00046361/201834658, arXiv:1903.07298.
• Yu S., N. Tosi, S. Schwinger, M. Maurice, D. Breuer, L. Xiao (2019). Overturn of ilmenite-bearing cumulates in a rheologically weak lunar mantle. Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets, 124(2), 418-436, doi:10.1029/2018JE005739.
• Höning D., N. Tosi, H. Hansen-Goos, T. Spohn (2019). Bifurcation in the growth of continental crust. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 287, 37-50, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2019.01.001, arXiv:1901.02301.

2018

• Plesa A.‐C., S. Padovan, N. Tosi, D. Breuer, M. Grott , M.A. Wieczorek, T. Spohn, S.E. Smrekar, W. B. Banerdt (2018). The thermal state and interior structure of Mars. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(22), 12198-12209, doi:10.1029/2018GL080728. Journal’s cover.
• Padovan S., T. Spohn, P. Baumeister, N. Tosi, D. Breuer, Sz. Csizmadia, H. Hellard, F. Sohl (2018). Matrix-propagator approach to compute fluid Love numbers and applicability to extrasolar planets. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 620, A178, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201834181, arXiv:1810.10064.
• Lammer H., A.L. Zerkle, S. Gebauer, N. Tosi, L. Noack, M. Scherf, E. Pilat-Lohinger, M. Güdel, J.L. Grenfell, M. Godolt, A. Nikolaou (2018). Origin and evolution of the atmospheres of early Venus, Earth and Mars. The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review. 26(2), doi:10.1007/s00159-018-0108-y.
• Plesa A.-C., M. Knapmeyer, M. P. Golombek, D. Breuer, M. Grott, T. Kawamura, P. Longonné, N. Tosi, R. C. Weber (2018). Present-day Mars’ seismicity predicted from 3-D thermal evolution models of interior dynamics. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(6), 2580-2589, doi:10.1002/2017GL076124.
• Odert P., H. Lammer, N. V. Erkaev, A. Nikolaou, H.I.M. Lichtenegger, C.P. Johnstone, K.G. Kislyakova, M. Leitzinger, N. Tosi (2018). Escape and fractionation of volatiles and noble gases from Mars-sized planetary embryos and growing protoplanets. Icarus, 307, 327-346, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2017.10.031.
• Breuer D. and N. Tosi (2018). Interiors and atmospheres. In Planetary Geology, A.-P. Rossi and S. van Gasselt (eds.), Springer series in Astronomy and Planetary Sciences, Ch. 10, 221-242, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65179-8.

2017

• Padovan S., N. Tosi, A.-C. Plesa, T. Ruedas (2017). Impact-induced changes in the source depth and volume of magmatism on Mercury and their observational signature. Nature Communications, 8, 1945, doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01692-0.
• Tosi N., M. Godolt, B. Stracke, T. Ruedas, J. L. Grenfell, D. Höning, A. Nikolaou, A.-C. Plesa, D. Breuer, and T. Spohn (2017). The habitability of a stagnant-lid Earth. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 605, A71, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201730728, arXiv:1707.06051.
• Maurice M., N. Tosi, H. Samuel, A.-C. Plesa, C. Hüttig, D. Breuer (2017). Onset of solid-state convection and mixing during magma ocean solidification. Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets, 122(3), 577-598, doi:10.1002/2016JE005250. Editor’s highlight. Journal’s cover.

2016

• Plesa A.-C., M. Grott, N. Tosi, D. Breuer, T. Spohn, M. Wieczorek (2016). How large are present‐day heat flux variations across the surface of Mars? Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets, 121(12), 2386-2403, doi:10.1002/2016JE005126. Commentary by W. Kiefer. Research spotlight in EOS.
• Breuer D., A.-C. Plesa, N. Tosi and M. Grott (2016). Water in the Martian interior—The geodynamical perspective. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 51(11), 1959-1992, doi:10.1111/maps.12727.
• Dehant V. et al. (35 authors incl. M. Maurice and N. Tosi) (2016). PLANET TOPERS: Planets, Tracing the Transfer, Origin, Preservation, and Evolution of their ReservoirS. Origins of life and evolution of biospheres, doi:10.1007/s11084-016-9488-z.

2015

• Huang H., N. Tosi, S.-J. Chang, S. Xia and X. Qiu (2015). Receiver function imaging of the mantle transition zone beneath the South China Block. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16(10), 3666-3678, doi:10.1002/2015GC005978.
• Tosi N., O. Čadek, M. Běhounková, M. Káňová, A.-C. Plesa, M. Grott, D. Breuer, S. Padovan and M. Wieczorek (2015). Mercury’s low-degree geoid and topography controlled by insolation-driven elastic deformation. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(18), 7327-7335, doi:10.1002/2015GL065314.
• Tosi N., P. Maierová and D. Yuen (2015). Influence of variable thermal expansivity and conductivity on deep subduction. Subduction Dynamics: from Mantle Flow to Mega Disasters, AGU Geophysical Monograph 211, Ch. 6, G. Morra, D. Yuen, S. King and S. Stein (eds.).
• Li J., N. Tosi, P. Maierová and D. Yuen (2015). Evidence from caustics waveform modelling for long slab thickening above the 660-km discontinuity under northeast Asia: dynamical implications. Subduction Dynamics: from Mantle Flow to Mega Disasters, AGU Geophysical Monograph 211, Ch. 1, G. Morra, D. Yuen, S. King and S. Stein (eds.).
• Tosi N., C. Stein, L. Noack, C. Hüttig, P. Maierová, H. Samuel, R. Davies, C. Wilson, S. Kramer, C. Thieulot, A. Glerum, M. Fraters, W. Spakman, A. Rozel and P. Tackley (2015). A community benchmark for viscoplastic thermal convection in a 2-D square box. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16(7), 2175-2196, doi:10.1002/2015GC005807.
• Plesa A.-C., N. Tosi, M. Grott and D. Breuer (2015). Thermal evolution and Urey ratio of Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets, 120, 995-1010, doi:10.1002/2014JE004748.
• Padovan S., M. Wieczorek, J.-L. Margot, N. Tosi and S. Solomon (2015). Thickness of the crust of Mercury from geoid-to-topography ratios. Geophysical Research Letters, 42, 1029-1038, doi:10.1002/2014GL062487.

2014

• Tosi N., D. Breuer, T. Spohn (2014). Evolution of planetary interiors. Encyclopedia of the Solar System (3rd Edition), T. Spohn, D. Breuer and T. Johnson (eds.), Elsevier, Ch. 9, 185-208, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-415845-0.00009-8.
• Plesa A.-C., N. Tosi and D. Breuer (2014). Can a fractionally crystallized magma ocean explain the thermo-chemical evolution of Mars? Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 403, 225-235, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2014.06.034.

2013

• Tosi N., M. Grott, A.-C. Plesa and D. Breuer (2013). Thermo-chemical evolution of Mercury’s interior. Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets, 118, 2474-2487, doi:10.1002/jgre.20168.
• Tosi N., A.-C. Plesa and D. Breuer (2013). Overturn and evolution of a crystallized magma ocean: a numerical parameter study for Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets, 118, 1512-1528, doi:10.1002/jgre20109.
• Laneuville M., M. Wieczorek, D. Breuer and N. Tosi (2013). Asymmetric thermal evolution of the Moon. Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets, 118, 1435-1452, doi:10.1002/jgre.20103.
• Hüttig C., N. Tosi and W.B. Moore (2013). An improved formulation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with variable viscosity. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 220, 11-18, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2013.04.002.
• Tosi N., D. Yuen, N. de Koker and R. Wentzcovitch (2013). Mantle dynamics with pressure- and temperature-dependent thermal expansivity and conductivity. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 217, 48-58, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2013.02.004.

2012

• Plesa A.-C., N. Tosi and C. Huettig (2012). Thermochemical convection in planetary mantles: advection methods and magma ocean overturn simulations. In Integrated Information and Computing Systems for Natural, Spatial, and Social Sciences, C.-P. Rueckemann (ed.), IGI Global, 302-323, doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-2190-9.ch015.
• Noack L. and N. Tosi (2012). High-performance modelling in geodynamics. In Integrated Information and Computing Systems for Natural, Spatial, and Social Sciences, C.-P. Rueckemann (ed.), IGI Global, 324-352, doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-2190-9.ch016.
• Wagner F.W., N. Tosi, F. Sohl, H. Rauer, T. Spohn (2012). Rocky super-Earth Interiors: Structure and internal dynamics of CoRoT-7b and Kepler-10b. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 541, A103, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201118441.
• Samuel H. and N. Tosi (2012). The influence of post-perovskite strength on the Earth’s mantle thermal and chemical evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 323-324, 50-59, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.01.024.

2011

• Tosi N. and D. Yuen (2011). Bent-shaped plumes and channel flow beneath the 660 km discontinuity. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 312, 348-359, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.10.015.
• Yuen D., N. Tosi and O. Čadek (2011). Influences of lower mantle properties on the formation of asthenosphere in oceanic upper mantle. Journal of Earth Science, 22(2), 143-154, doi:10.1007/s12583-011-0166-9.

2010

• Tosi N., D. Yuen and O. Čadek (2010). Dynamical consequences in the lower mantle with the post-perovskite phase change and strongly depth-dependent thermodynamic and transport properties. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 298, 229-243, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.08.001.
• King S., C. Lee, P. van Keken, W. Leng, S. Zhong, E. Tan, N. Tosi and M. Kameyama (2010). A community benchmark for 2D Cartesian compressible convection in the Earth’s mantle. Geophysical Journal International, 180, 73-87, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04413.x.

2009

• Tosi N., O. Čadek and Z. Martinec (2009). Subducted slabs and lateral viscosity variations: Effects on the long-wavelength geoid. Geophysical Journal International, 179, 813-826, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04335.x.
• Tosi N., O. Čadek, Z. Martinec, D. Yuen and G. Kaufmann (2009). Is the long-wavelength geoid sensitive to the presence of postperovskite above the core-mantle boundary? Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L05303, doi:10.1029/2008GL036902.

pre-2009

• Tosi N. (2008). Numerical modelling of present-day mantle convection. PhD Thesis, Charles University Prague.
• Tosi N., Z. Martinec (2007). Semi-analytical solution for viscous Stokes flow in two eccentrically nested spheres. Geophysical Journal International, 170, 1015-1030, doi:10.111/j.1365-246X.2007.03482.x.
• Tosi N., R. Sabadini, A.M. Marotta and L.L.A. Vermeersen (2005). Simultaneous inversion for the Earth’s mantle viscosity and mass imbalance in Antarctica and Greenland. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 110, B07402, doi:10.1029/2004JB003236.