publications
First-author papers
12
Total papers
91
h-index
32
First-Author
- 2025: Learning the Universe: cosmological and astrophysical parameter inference with galaxy luminosity functions and colours. Christopher C. Lovell, Tjitske Starkenburg, Matthew Ho & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 544 3949. arXiv:2411.13960
- 2025: Synthesizer: a Software Package for Synthetic Astronomical Observables. Christopher C. Lovell, William J. Roper, Aswin P. Vijayan & others, The Open Journal of Astrophysics 8 152. arXiv:2508.03888
- 2023: First light and reionisation epoch simulations (FLARES) - VIII. The emergence of passive galaxies at z ≥ 5. Christopher C. Lovell, Will Roper, Aswin P. Vijayan & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 525 5520. arXiv:2211.07540
- 2023: A Hierarchy of Normalizing Flows for Modelling the Galaxy-Halo Relationship. Christopher C. Lovell, Sultan Hassan, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro & others, Machine Learning for Astrophysics 21. arXiv:2307.06967
- 2023: Extreme value statistics of the halo and stellar mass distributions at high redshift: are JWST results in tension with ΛCDM?. Christopher C. Lovell, Ian Harrison, Yuichi Harikane & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 518 2511. arXiv:2208.10479
- 2022: An orientation bias in observations of submillimetre galaxies. C. C. Lovell, J. E. Geach, R. Davé & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 515 3644. arXiv:2106.11588
- 2022: A machine learning approach to mapping baryons on to dark matter haloes using the EAGLE and C-EAGLE simulations. Christopher C. Lovell, Stephen M. Wilkins, Peter A. Thomas & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 509 5046. arXiv:2106.04980
- 2021: Reproducing submillimetre galaxy number counts with cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. Christopher C. Lovell, James E. Geach, Romeel Davé & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 502 772. arXiv:2006.15156
- 2021: SENGI: A small, fast, interactive viewer for spectral outputs from stellar population synthesis models. C. C. Lovell, Astronomy and Computing 34 100444. arXiv:1911.12713
- 2021: First Light And Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) - I. Environmental dependence of high-redshift galaxy evolution. Christopher C. Lovell, Aswin P. Vijayan, Peter A. Thomas & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 500 2127. arXiv:2004.07283
- 2019: Learning the relationship between galaxies spectra and their star formation histories using convolutional neural networks and cosmological simulations. Christopher C. Lovell, Viviana Acquaviva, Peter A. Thomas & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 490 5503. arXiv:1903.10457
- 2018: Characterising and identifying galaxy protoclusters. Christopher C. Lovell, Peter A. Thomas, Stephen M. Wilkins, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 474 4612. arXiv:1710.02148
Second-Author
- 2026: Flexible simulation-based inference for galaxy photometric fitting with synthesizer. Thomas Harvey, Christopher C. Lovell, Sophie Newman & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 547 stag282. arXiv:2511.10640
- 2026: Cloudy-Maraston: integrating nebular continuum and line emission with the Maraston stellar population synthesis models. Sophie L. Newman, Christopher C. Lovell, Claudia Maraston & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 545 staf1866. arXiv:2501.03133
- 2025: Galactification: painting galaxies onto dark matter only simulations using a transformer-based model. Shivam Pandey, Christopher C. Lovell, Chirag Modi & others, Accepted in Science. arXiv:2511.08438
- 2025: Synthesizer: Synthetic Observables For Modern Astronomy. Will J. Roper, Christopher Lovell, Aswin Vijayan & others. arXiv:2506.15811
- 2024: First Light and Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) - XIV. The Balmer/4000 Å breaks of distant galaxies. Stephen M. Wilkins, Christopher C. Lovell, Dimitrios Irodotou & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 527 7965. arXiv:2305.18175
- 2023: First light and reionization epoch simulations (FLARES) IX: the physical mechanisms driving compact galaxy formation and evolution. William J. Roper, Christopher C. Lovell, Aswin P. Vijayan & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 526 6128. arXiv:2301.05228
- 2023: JWST Constraints on the UV Luminosity Density at Cosmic Dawn: Implications for 21 cm Cosmology. Sultan Hassan, Christopher C. Lovell, Piero Madau & others, The Astrophysical Journal 958 L3. arXiv:2305.02703
- 2023: First light and reionization epoch simulations (FLARES) X: environmental galaxy bias and survey variance at high redshift. Peter A. Thomas, Christopher C. Lovell, Maxwell G. A. Maltz & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 524 43. arXiv:2301.09510
- 2023: First light and reionization epoch simulations (FLARES) XI: [O III] emitting galaxies at 5 < z < 10. Stephen M. Wilkins, Christopher C. Lovell, Aswin P. Vijayan & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 522 4014. arXiv:2301.13038
- 2022: First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) - IV. The size evolution of galaxies at z ≥ 5. William J. Roper, Christopher C. Lovell, Aswin P. Vijayan & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 514 1921. arXiv:2203.12627
- 2021: First Light And Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) - II: The photometric properties of high-redshift galaxies. Aswin P. Vijayan, Christopher C. Lovell, Stephen M. Wilkins & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 501 3289. arXiv:2008.06057
- 2020: Debunking Generalization Error or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Training Set. Viviana Acquaviva, Chistopher Lovell, Emille Ishida, Accepted in Science. arXiv:2012.00066
- 2020: Nebular-line emission during the Epoch of Reionization. Stephen M. Wilkins, Christopher C. Lovell, Ciaran Fairhurst & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 493 6079. arXiv:1904.07504
- 2019: Recalibrating the cosmic star formation history. Stephen M. Wilkins, Christopher C. Lovell, Elizabeth R. Stanway, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 490 5359. arXiv:1910.05220
Co-Authored
- 2026: The nature of high-redshift massive quiescent galaxies $-$ searching for RUBIES-UDS-QG-z7 in FLARES. Jack C. Turner, Will J. Roper & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 546 stag214. arXiv:2509.16111
- 2026: Interpreting nebular emission lines in the high-redshift Universe. Aswin Payyoor Vijayan, Robert M. Yates, Christopher C. Lovell & others, The Open Journal of Astrophysics 9 57554. arXiv:2507.20190
- 2026: Euclid: The first statistical census of dusty and massive objects in the ERO/Perseus field. G. Girardi, A. Grazian & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Astronomy and Astrophysics 706 A371. arXiv:2512.01489
- 2026: CAMELS Environments: The Impact of Local Neighbours on Galaxy Evolution across the SIMBA, IllustrisTNG, ASTRID, and Swift-EAGLE Simulations. Xavier Sims, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar & others including Christopher C. Lovell. arXiv:2601.06290
- 2026: Cosmological back-reaction of baryons on dark matter in the CAMELS simulations. Matthew Gebhardt, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar & others including Christopher C. Lovell. arXiv:2601.06258
- 2025: ALMA Reveals Diverse Dust-to-gas Mass Ratios and Quenching Modes in Old Quiescent Galaxies. G. Lorenzon, D. Donevski & others including Christopher C. Lovell, The Astrophysical Journal 995 L63. arXiv:2509.10079
- 2025: A new constraint on the $y$-distortion with FIRAS: implications for feedback models in galaxy formation and cosmic shear measurements. Giulio Fabbian, Federico Bianchini & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Submitted to Physical Review Letters. arXiv:2512.03038
- 2025: How Does Feedback Affect the Star Formation Histories of Galaxies?. Kartheik G. Iyer, Tjitske K. Starkenburg & others including Christopher C. Lovell, The Astrophysical Journal 994 174. arXiv:2508.21152
- 2025: First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XX: Comparing semi-analytic models at high-redshift. Louise T. C. Seeyave, Carlton M. Baugh & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Submitted to MNRAS. arXiv:2511.11982
- 2025: Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1): Identification of massive galaxy candidates at the end of the Epoch of Reionisation. Euclid Collaboration, R. Navarro-Carrera & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Submitted to A&A. arXiv:2511.11943
- 2025: Think inside the box: cosmic variance and large-scale conformity of high-redshift massive galaxies in the FLAMINGO simulations. Seunghwan Lim, Sandro Tacchella & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Submitted to MNRAS. arXiv:2511.09618
- 2025: First light and reionization epoch simulations (FLARES) $-$ XIX. Supermassive black hole mergers in the early Universe and their environmental dependence. Shihong Liao, Dimitrios Irodotou & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 543 3055. arXiv:2505.12591
- 2025: Predicting the Subhalo Mass Functions in Simulations from Galaxy Images. Andreas Filipp, Tri Nguyen & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Published as a workshop paper at the ML4Astro Workshop at ICML 2025. arXiv:2510.14766
- 2025: Behind the spotlight: a systematic assessment of outshining using NIRCam medium bands in the JADES Origins Field. Thomas Harvey, Christopher J. Conselice & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 542 2998. arXiv:2504.05244
- 2025: Impact of stochastic star-formation histories and dust on selecting quiescent galaxies with JWST photometry. K. Lisiecki, D. Donevski & others including Christopher C. Lovell. arXiv:2509.10117
- 2025: Learning the Universe: Physically Motivated Priors for Dust Attenuation Curves. L. Sommovigo, R. K. Cochrane & others including Christopher C. Lovell, The Astrophysical Journal 990 114. arXiv:2502.13240
- 2025: Probing the co-evolution of Supermassive Black Holes and their hosts from scaling relations pairwise residuals: dominance of stellar velocity dispersion and host halo mass. Francesco Shankar, Mariangela Bernardi & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 541 2070. arXiv:2505.02920
- 2025: Explaining Ultramassive Quiescent Galaxies at 3 < z < 5 in the Context of Their Environments. Christian Kragh Jespersen, Adam C. Carnall, Christopher C. Lovell, The Astrophysical Journal 988 L19. arXiv:2507.05340
- 2025: First Light and Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) – XVIII: the ionising emissivities and hydrogen recombination line properties of early AGN. Stephen M. Wilkins, Aswin P. Vijayan & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Submitted to the Open Journal of Astrophysics. arXiv:2505.05257
- 2025: First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES): XVI. Size evolution of massive dusty galaxies at cosmic dawn from the ultraviolet to infrared. Paurush Punyasheel, Aswin P. Vijayan & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Astronomy and Astrophysics 696 A234. arXiv:2408.11037
- 2025: First Light and Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) - XVII. Learning the galaxy-halo connection at high redshifts. Maxwell G. A. Maltz, Peter A. Thomas, Christoper C. Lovell & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 538 3084. arXiv:2410.24082
- 2025: First Light and Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) – XV: The physical properties of super-massive black holes and their impact on galaxies in the early universe. Stephen Wilkins, Jussi K. Kuusisto & others including Christopher C. Lovell, The Open Journal of Astrophysics 8 29. arXiv:2404.02815
- 2025: Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). Extending the quest for little red dots to z<4. Euclid Collaboration, L. Bisigello & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Accepted in A&A. arXiv:2503.15323
- 2025: Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). An investigation of optically faint, red objects in the Euclid Deep Fields. Euclid Collaboration, G. Girardi & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Paper submitted as part of the A&A. arXiv:2503.15322
- 2025: Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). A probabilistic classification of quenched galaxies. Euclid Collaboration, P. Corcho-Caballero & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Accepted for publication in A&A. arXiv:2503.15315
- 2025: Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1): The evolution of the passive-density and morphology-density relations between $z=0.25$ and $z=1$. Euclid Collaboration, C. Cleland & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Paper submitted as part of the A&A. arXiv:2503.15313
- 2025: Like a candle in the wind: the embers of once aflame, now smouldering galaxies at 5 < z < 8. James A. A. Trussler, Christopher J. Conselice & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 537 3662. arXiv:2404.07163
- 2025: On the Significance of Rare Objects at High Redshift: The Impact of Cosmic Variance. Christian Kragh Jespersen, Charles L. Steinhardt & others including Christopher C. Lovell, The Astrophysical Journal 982 23. arXiv:2403.00050
- 2025: The Spectral Energy Distributions of Galaxies. Kartheik G. Iyer, Camilla Pacifici & others including Christopher C. Lovell, chapter for the Encyclopedia of Astrophysics. arXiv:2502.17680
- 2025: Field-level simulation-based inference with galaxy catalogs: the impact of systematic effects. Natalí S. M. de Santi, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2025 082. arXiv:2310.15234
- 2025: Tracing the evolutionary pathways of dust and cold gas in high-z quiescent galaxies with SIMBA. G. Lorenzon, D. Donevski & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Astronomy and Astrophysics 693 A118. arXiv:2404.10568
- 2025: EPOCHS. IV. SED Modeling Assumptions and Their Impact on the Stellar Mass Function at 6.5 ≤ z ≤ 13.5 Using PEARLS and Public JWST Observations. Thomas Harvey, Christopher J. Conselice & others including Christopher C. Lovell, The Astrophysical Journal 978 89. arXiv:2403.03908
- 2024: The JWST EXCELS survey: too much, too young, too fast? Ultra-massive quiescent galaxies at 3 < z < 5. A. C. Carnall, F. Cullen & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 534 325. arXiv:2405.02242
- 2024: Unveiling the Distant Universe: Characterizing z ≥ 9 Galaxies in the First Epoch of COSMOS-Web. Maximilien Franco, Hollis B. Akins & others including Christopher C. Lovell, The Astrophysical Journal 973 23. arXiv:2308.00751
- 2024: LtU-ILI: An All-in-One Framework for Implicit Inference in Astrophysics and Cosmology. Matthew Ho, Deaglan J. Bartlett & others including Christopher C. Lovell, The Open Journal of Astrophysics 7 54. arXiv:2402.05137
- 2024: Efficient NIRCam Selection of Quiescent Galaxies at 3 < z < 6 in CEERS. Arianna S. Long, Jacqueline Antwi-Danso & others including Christopher C. Lovell, The Astrophysical Journal 970 68. arXiv:2305.04662
- 2024: Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) science: Surveying the distant Universe. Eelco van Kampen, Tom Bakx & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Open Research Europe 4 122. arXiv:2403.02806
- 2024: Cosmological baryon spread and impact on matter clustering in CAMELS. Matthew Gebhardt, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 529 4896. arXiv:2307.11832
- 2024: Star formation efficiency across large-scale galactic environments. Laya Ghodsi, Allison W. S. Man & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 528 4393. arXiv:2309.01277
- 2024: Outshining by Recent Star Formation Prevents the Accurate Measurement of High-z Galaxy Stellar Masses. Desika Narayanan, Sidney Lower & others including Christopher C. Lovell, The Astrophysical Journal 961 73. arXiv:2306.10118
- 2024: First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) - XII: The consequences of star-dust geometry on galaxies in the EoR. Aswin P. Vijayan, Peter A. Thomas, Christopher C. Lovell & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 527 7337. arXiv:2303.04177
- 2024: iMaNGA: mock MaNGA galaxies based on IllustrisTNG and MaStar SSPs. - III. Stellar metallicity drivers in MaNGA and TNG50. Lorenza Nanni, Justus Neumann & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 527 6419. arXiv:2309.14257
- 2023: Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey: The colour evolution of galaxies in the distant Universe. Stephen M. Wilkins, Jack C. Turner & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Submitted to MNRAS. arXiv:2311.08065
- 2023: A Universal Equation to Predict Ωₘ from Halo and Galaxy Catalogs. Helen Shao, Natalí S. M. de Santi & others including Christopher C. Lovell, The Astrophysical Journal 956 149. arXiv:2302.14591
- 2023: The JWST Hubble Sequence: The Rest-frame Optical Evolution of Galaxy Structure at 1.5 < z < 6.5. Leonardo Ferreira, Christopher J. Conselice & others including Christopher C. Lovell, The Astrophysical Journal 955 94. arXiv:2210.01110
- 2023: First light and reionization epoch simulations (FLARES) X III: the lyman-continuum emission of high-redshift galaxies. Louise T. C. Seeyave, Stephen M. Wilkins & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 525 2422. arXiv:2305.18174
- 2023: Mapping circumgalactic medium observations to theory using machine learning. Sarah Appleby, Romeel Davé & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 525 1167. arXiv:2301.02001
- 2023: Seeing sharper and deeper: JWST's first glimpse of the photometric and spectroscopic properties of galaxies in the epoch of reionization. James A. A. Trussler, Nathan J. Adams & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 523 3423. arXiv:2207.14265
- 2023: Robust Field-level Likelihood-free Inference with Galaxies. Natalí S. M. de Santi, Helen Shao & others including Christopher C. Lovell, The Astrophysical Journal 952 69. arXiv:2302.14101
- 2023: ALMACAL. XI. Over-densities as signposts for proto-clusters? A cautionary tale. Jianhang Chen, R. J. Ivison & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Astronomy and Astrophysics 675 L10. arXiv:2306.17313
- 2023: MIGHTEE: deep 1.4 GHz source counts and the sky temperature contribution of star-forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei. C. L. Hale, I. H. Whittam & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 520 2668. arXiv:2211.05741
- 2023: First light and reionization epoch simulations (FLARES) V: the redshift frontier. Stephen M. Wilkins, Aswin P. Vijayan, Christopher C. Lovell & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 519 3118. arXiv:2204.09431
- 2023: First Light And Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) VII: The star formation and metal enrichment histories of galaxies in the early Universe. Stephen M. Wilkins, Aswin P. Vijayan, Christopher C. Lovell & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 518 3935. arXiv:2208.00976
- 2023: Unveiling the main sequence of galaxies at z ≥ 5 with the JWST: predictions from simulations. Jordan C. J. D'Silva, Claudia D. P. Lagos & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 518 456. arXiv:2208.06180
- 2022: First Light and Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) - VI. The colour evolution of galaxies z = 5-15. Stephen M. Wilkins, Aswin P. Vijayan, Christopher C. Lovell & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 517 3227. arXiv:2207.10920
- 2022: Chaotic and Clumpy Galaxy Formation in an Extremely Massive Reionization-era Halo. Justin S. Spilker, Christopher C. Hayward & others including Christopher C. Lovell, The Astrophysical Journal 929 L3. arXiv:2203.14972
- 2022: First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) - III. The properties of massive dusty galaxies at cosmic dawn. Aswin P. Vijayan, Stephen M. Wilkins, Christopher C. Lovell & others, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 511 4999. arXiv:2108.00830
- 2022: The BPT Diagram in Cosmological Galaxy Formation Simulations: Understanding the Physics Driving Offsets at High Redshift. Prerak Garg, Desika Narayanan & others including Christopher C. Lovell, The Astrophysical Journal 926 80. arXiv:2201.03564
- 2021: The emergence of passive galaxies in the early Universe. P. Santini, M. Castellano & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Astronomy and Astrophysics 652 A30. arXiv:2011.10584
- 2021: Cosmic Evolution of the $H_{2}$ Mass Density and the Epoch of Molecular Gas. T. K. Garratt, K. E. K. Coppin & others including Christopher C. Lovell, The Astrophysical Journal 912 62. arXiv:2103.08613
- 2021: The Early Assembly History of the Most Massive Halo in the Reionization Era. Justin Scott Spilker, Manuel Aravena & others including Christopher C. Lovell, JWST Proposal. Cycle 1 1791.
- 2021: POWDERDAY: Dust Radiative Transfer for Galaxy Simulations. Desika Narayanan, Matthew J. Turk & others including Christopher C. Lovell, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 252 12. arXiv:2006.10757
- 2018: Dust-obscured star-forming galaxies in the early universe. Stephen M. Wilkins, Yu Feng & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 473 5363. arXiv:1710.01976
- 2017: The properties of the first galaxies in the BlueTides simulation. Stephen M. Wilkins, Yu Feng & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 469 2517. arXiv:1704.00954
- 2016: The photometric properties of galaxies in the early Universe. Stephen M. Wilkins, Yu Feng & others including Christopher C. Lovell, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 460 3170. arXiv:1605.05044