PoreLab Lecture Series
Do you wish to receive the invitations to the PoreLab lectures? Contact Marie-Laure Olivier here: Marie-Laure.Olivier@ntnu.no
Welcome to Anders!
Anders Daltveit Melve joined PoreLab on August 25, 2025, as a PhD candidate on a three-year contract. He is the first PhD student to be recruited under Alex Hansen’s ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Grant project, AGIPORE – A Statistical Mechanics Framework for Immiscible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media.The ERC Advanced Grant is a prestigious
Lecture by Onsager Professor Lyderic Boquect on 21 November at 11:15 in Auditorium S7 in “Sentralbygg 2”
Professor Lydéric Bocquet from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris and the Collège de France, is the Onsager Professor 2025. He will receive the Onsager Medal and will give his lecture this Friday, November 21st, 2025 at 11.15 in Auditorium S7 in “Sentralbygg 2” He will talk about: The molecular mechanics of fluids: from ionic
PoreLab lecture with Sauro Succi on fluid simulations on quantum computers
Who: Sauro Succi, Senior Research Executive and Principal Investigator, Center for Life Nano Scienceat la Sapienza, Roma, Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Head of the research line “Mesoscale Simulations”; When: Wednesday November 26th, between 13:00 and 14:00 CET (Norway time) Where: The lecture will be in-person in the common room (PoreLab Trondheim) and streamed in the Kelvin room
Read more about how filamentous fungi control multiphase flow and fluid distribution in porous media, in Nature Physics
This is the last publication from Dr. Marcel Moura, PI at PoreLab/University of Oslo and his colleagues from the University of Minnesota in the US: Filamentous fungi control multiphase flow and fluid distribution in porous media | Nature Physics The main author of this publication is Sang Hyun Lee, Assistant Professor at the Department of
Defense of thesis: Reza Haghani
Doctoral Candidate Reza Haghani at the Department of Geosciences will hold a trial lectureand defend his doctoral thesis for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD). The degree isadministered by the Faculty of Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science andTechnology (NTNU). Thesis title: Wettability Characterization of Porous Media Multiphase Lattice-Boltzmann Simulation Trial lecture: Reactive transport
PoreLab lecture with Professor Hyundon Shin on Carbon Net-zero and Energy Transition Technology
Who: Professor Hyundon Shin from Inha University in South Korea When: Monday 17 November, between 10:00 and 11:00 CET (Norway time) Where: NTNU, Room 162, PTS, Valgrinda or Microsoft Teams: Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 345 768 153 075 43 Passcode: Di2eQ9pf Title: Carbon Net-zero and Energy Transition Technology
Welcome to Pooja!
Dr. Pooja Singh joined PoreLab on October 15, 2025. She is a postdoctoral fellow funded by PoreLab under WP1-Thermodynamics of flow in porous media, in collaboration between Professor Alex Hansen and Professor Erika Eiser. This is a 3-year contract. Pooja recently completed her PhD in Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur
PoreLab lecture with Stéphane Santucci on Tomo-rheoscopy of Liquid Foams
Who: Stéphane Santucci, Chargé de Recherche, CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research), Laboratoire de Physique, ENS (Ecole Nationale Supérieure) of Lyon, France When: Wednesday 29 October, between 13:00 and 14:00 CET (Norway time) Where: The lecture will be streamed in Kelvin room in Oslo and in the common room in Trondheim. From anywhere else, you will be able to join via the
From Interface Dynamics to Darcy Scale Description of Multiphase Flow in Porous Media, a new publication from Berg et al.
“From Interface Dynamics to Darcy Scale Description of Multiphase Flow in Porous Media“, an invited submission to a special issue in Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, authored by Steffen Berg, Ryan Armstrong, Maja Rücker, Alex Hansen, Signe Kjelstrup and Dick Bedeaux was just released as preprint on https://lnkd.in/eGBVwfwV In this review, we compare novel
Welcome to Fufang!
Dr. Fufang Yang joined PoreLab at the Department of Chemistry, NTNU, on September 1st, 2025, as researcher funded through a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship from the European Commission. Dr. Yang earned his PhD from the Department of Energy and Power Engineering at Tsinghua University in China, where he also completed his Bachelor’s degree.
The last publication from Jervell and Wilhelmsen selected as Editor’s Pick in The Journal of Chemical Physics
Congratulations to Vegard! His latest article on how quantum effects should be represented in the thermophysical properties of substances such as hydrogen was selected as an Editor’s Pick in The Journal of Chemical Physics. An important piece of work with relevance for hydrogen transport and storage in porous media. Title: The limits of Feynman–Hibbs corrections
Porelab Early Career Lecture on Enabling Fast 4D X-ray CT in the home-lab with Machine Learning
Who: Giacomo Luani, PhD candidate at the Porous Media Physics section, Department of Physics, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway When: Wednesday 1 October, between 13:00 and 14:00 CET (Norway time) Where: The lecture will be in-person in the common room (PoreLab Trondheim) and streamed in the Kelvin room ( Porelab Oslo). From anywhere else, you will be
Welcome to Vitor!
Vitor Heitor Cardoso Cunha joined PoreLab at the Department of Chemistry, NTNU, on September 1st, 2025, as postdoctoral researcher. This is a 3-year contract. His research focuses on the theoretical and computational study of complex fluid systems, with emphasis on dynamical systems modeling, wetting and capillarity, and liquid-vapor phase transitions at sub-micron scales. Vitor holds
Welcome to Mohammad!
Mohammad Hassan Taleghani joined PoreLab on August 4th, 2025, as a PhD candidate. He completed his M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering, and he is interested in a wide range of topics within fluid mechanics, multi-phase flow, heat transfer, and thermodynamics. He likes to combine numerical, experimental, and analytical methods to address fundamental questions in fluid