PoreLab Lecture Series
Do you wish to receive the invitations to the PoreLab lectures? Contact Marie-Laure Olivier here: Marie-Laure.Olivier@ntnu.no
Read more about quick clay landslides and how to better stabilize them in a Eos article by Astrid de Wijn and Ge Li
Open the article here: Insights for Making Quick Clay Landslides Less Quick – Eos Article by Nathaniel Scharping A 2020 quick clay landslide in Gjerdrum, Norway, destroyed homes and killed 10 people. Similar soils are found throughout the country and in other northern countries. Credit: Tommy Gildseth/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
15th Nordic Workshop on Statistical Physics: Biological, Complex and Non-Equilibrium Systems
Professor Astrid de Wijn, associated member at PoreLab, and Assistant Professor Ralf Eichhorm from NORDITA are organizing the 15th Nordic Workshop on Statistical Physics: Biological, Complex and Non-Equilibrium Systems, on February 25-27, 2026 in NORDITA, Stockholm, Sweden. The workshop is sponsored by NORDITA. More information here: 15th Nordic Workshop on Statistical Physics: Biological, Complex and
Open PhD and Postdoc positions at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oslo
Our partners at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oslo are recruiting one or two PhD research fellows and one or two postdoctoral research fellow: PhD Research Fellow in fluid mechanics Deadline: 10 February 2026 Employer: University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway See advertisement and apply here: PhD Research Fellow in fluid mechanics (293755) | University of Oslo
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