Miha Cernetic

I am Miha Cernetic, since May 2026 I work as a Kernel Engineer at Cerebras Systems, based in Berlin.

Before that, from September 2024, I was a postdoc with Damiano Caprioli at University of Chicago, working on hybrid PIC simulations.

I did my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, in Garching, Germany. With my supervisor Volker Springel I focused on turbulence, high order numerical methods, GPU computing and galaxy formation.

My research in astrophysics was broadly focused on how to employ novel high order numerical techniques to study the role turbulence plays in galaxy formation at the exascale. I remain particularly interested in the role of turbulence in the intracluster medium in connection with various buoyancy instabilities and in interstellar medium where it affects the star formation process. The thread running through all of it, and into my work now, is squeezing physics out of the largest machines available.

I come from Slovenia, more precisely from Ajdovščina (Wajdušna), a windy town close to the Adriatic coast. I obtained my BSc in Physics at the University of Ljubljana on CMB anisotropies with Andreja Gomboc. I then moved to Göttingen, Germany to pursue my MSc in Astrophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research where I worked on radiative transfer in 1D stellar atmospheres with Alexander Shapiro.

I am an avid self-hoster, feel free to run an internet speedtest, use my privatebin instance, effortlesly send large files or locally share files among devices using pairdrop. For some reason I have been running my own email server since 2013.

When I am not working or fixing servers, I run along the Spree, cycle out to one of the many Brandenburg lakes or climb the highest European peaks.