Ulrich Rüde

Prof. Ulrich Rüde is a retired professor in the Department of Computer Science at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, holding the Chair of Computer Science 10 (System Simulation). His research focuses on computational science, high-performance computing, lattice Boltzmann methods, and multigrid techniques. He has contributed to scalable simulation frameworks like waLBerla and HyTeG, emphasizing parallel algorithms and numerical methods for fluid dynamics and geodynamics.

• Editorial roles include SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing and International Journal of Parallel and Emergent Distributed Systems.
• Leadership in organizations: Zentralinstituts für Scientific Computing, Indo-German Winter Academy, and GAMM Computational Science and Engineering committee.
• Active in conferences: Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods, International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), and ACM Computing Frontiers.

Research interests span fluid-structure interactions, particle-resolved simulations, and exascale computing. His work addresses challenges in parallel performance, algorithmic scalability, and efficient numerical solvers for complex systems.