I am a computational scientist and HPC Application Specialist at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Garching, Germany, where I am a member of the Computational X Support (CXS) group within the HPC team. Before joining the LRZ, I worked as a researcher at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Department of Brewing and Beverage Technology in Freising.
Contact
ivan.pribec@lrz.deResearch interests:
- Lattice Boltzmann methods and their application to fluid dynamics, multiphase flow, mass transport, heat transfer and chemical reactions.
- Off-lattice Boltzmann methods
- Meshless methods in fluid and solid mechanics.
- Computational methods for the solution of partial differential equations.
- Mathematical modelling in life sciences.
Background
I received my master’s degree in chemical engineering at the Faculty of Chemisty and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana in the microprocess engineering group. My thesis titled “The Description of Chemical Reactions with the Lattice Boltzmann Method” was supervised by Prof. Dr. Igor Plazl and Prof. Dr. Tomaz Urbic. In the final year of my master’s I also worked shortly as a student researcher at the Parallel and Distributed Systems Laboratory at the Jozef Stefan Institute as a developer of the medusa meshless method library.
My full Curriculum Vitae is also available online.
Profiles
Talks and Publications
- Upcoming: presentation at the WCCM ECCOMAS Congress 2026 in Munich (July 2026).
- Easier API interoperability: writing a bindings generator to C/C++ with Coccinelle — talk at FOSDEM 2025, Brussels (February 2025).
- Bringing Fortran and C++ together — interview with LRZ (2023).
- Bridging the Language Gap: Classes for C++/Fortran Interoperability — poster P11, awarded the Best Poster Prize at the PASC23 Conference, Davos (June 2023).