PoreLab Lecture Series
Do you wish to receive the invitations to the PoreLab lectures? Contact Marie-Laure Olivier here: Marie-Laure.Olivier@ntnu.no
Open Postdoctoral position in experiments and CFD on evaporation at PoreLab NTNU
About the job The postdoctoral fellowship position is a temporary position where the main goal is to qualify for work in senior academic positions. The period of employment of this position is 4 years. The position will be in the Thermodynamics group at the Department of Chemistry at NTNU. The PostDoc will be part of the
Lecture from Professor Berend Smit from EPFL on Big Data in Nanoporous Materials: Science beyond Understanding
Welcome to the lecture from Professor Berend Smit from EPFL on Big Data in Nanoporous Materials. The lecture is organized by Associate Professor Raffaela Cabriolu from the department of Physics, NTNU. Who: Prof. Berend Smit, Chemical Engineering at the School of Basic Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland. When: Thursday November 23 at 15:00 (Norway time). Where: R8 (NTNU, Trondheim) Title: Big Data
Last publication from Lanza et al. selected as Editor’s pick in Physics of Fluids
Congratulations to Federico Lanza, Santanu Sinha, Alex Hansen, Alberto Rosso and Laurent Talon. Their publication on “Transition from viscous fingers to foam during drainage in heterogeneous porous media” was considered as noteworthy by the editors, and was chosen to be promoted as an Editor’s Pick. Congratulations! Title: Transition from viscous fingers to foam during drainage
PoreLab lecture with Associate Professor Cecilia Leal on structural complexity of lipid nanoparticles: implications for efficient gene delivery
Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Associate Professor Cecilia Leal from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA When: Wednesday November 22 at 13:00 (Norway time). Where: The lecture will be streamed in the Kelvin room (PoreLab Oslo) and in the common room (PoreLab Trondheim). From anywhere else, you will be able to join via the following
PoreLab lecture with Professor Ian Frigaard from the University of British Columbia on Handling Uncertainty in the Squeeze Cementing Process
Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Professor Ian Frigaard from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada When: Wednesday November 15 at 13:00 (Norway time). Where: The lecture will be streamed in the Kelvin room (PoreLab Oslo) and in the common room (PoreLab Trondheim). From anywhere else, you will be able to join via the following Zoom link:https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Handling Uncertainty in the Squeeze Cementing Process
PoreLab lecture with Dr. Marco De Paoli on multiscale modelling of convective mixing in confined porous media
Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Dr. Marco De Paoli from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and TU Wien, Austria When: Tuesday November 14 at 13:00 (Norway time). Where: The lecture will be streamed live in Kelvin (Oslo) and the common room (Trondheim). From anywhere else, you will be able to join with the following Zoom
Open PhD position in Statistical Physics of Dispersions in Porous Media at PoreLab NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
About the job We have a vacancy for a PhD position in Soft Matter Physics at PoreLab, Department of Physics, NTNU. The appointments has a duration of 3 years. The PhD student should start no later than December 2023. The position is organized at the Department of Physics in close collaboration with the Center of Excellence
Open PhD Research Fellow position in porous media physics at PoreLab University of Oslo
Job description Position as PhD Research Fellow in Porous Media Physics is available at the Centre of excellence (SFF) PoreLab at the Njord Centre/the Department of Physics. No one can be appointed for more than one PhD Research Fellowship period at the University of Oslo. Starting date as soon as possible. The fellowship period is 3 years.
PoreLab lecture with Professor Eirik G. Flekkøy from PoreLab UiO on cavitation dynamics in creeping flow
Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Professor Eirik G. Flekkøy, PoreLab UiO, Njord center, Department of Physics, University of Oslo When: Wednesday 25 October at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: Kelvin room (PoreLab Oslo), the lecture will be streamed live to the common room (PoreLab Trondheim). From anywhere else, you will be able to participate via the following Zoom
PoreLab publication in Nature Communications on how drainage explains soil liquefaction beyond the earthquake near-field
The article from Professor Renaud Toussaint and coworkers (Shahar Ben-Zeev, Liran Goren, Renaud Toussaint & Einat Aharonov) has been accepted in Nature Communications. Congratulations! Read the paper here: Drainage explains soil liquefaction beyond the earthquake near-field | Nature Communications A popular science article was published on this article in SCIENMAG here: New insights into soil liquefaction during earthquakes research
Reserve the day for Interpore Norway on November 9th in Oslo
InterPore Norway 2023 will be held in Oslo on the 9th of November. The workshop will be hosted by PoreLab and the University of Oslo and will take place in the Oslo Science Park (Forskningsparken) Conference Centre at the Faros Room. There are no registration fees but we have a limited capacity at the venue.
Prof. Wilhelmsen awarded with ERC grant!
Prof. Wilhelmsen, PI of Research Themes 5 and 8 in PoreLab, has just received an ERC Starting Grant for the research project InterLab: “Unravelling the fundamentals of transport across the vapor-liquid interface”. Congratulations! In the project, Wilhelmsen and his group will bring new understanding and methods to predict transport of heat and mass across vapor-liquid
PoreLab lecture with Prof. Miguel Rubi from the University of Barcelona on Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of active particles self-assembly
Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Prof. Miguel Rubi from the Department of Fundamental Physics at the University of Barcelona, Spain When: Friday 13 October at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: on zoom https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of active particles self-assembly Abstract: We calculate the energetic cost of the formation of active particle structures. Using an approach that couples the particle dynamics
PoreLab lecture with Dr. Olivier Vincent, from the Institut Lumière Matière, France, on water and solutions in nanoporous media: capillarity, osmosis and phase change
Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Dr. Olivier Vincent, Permanent Research Scientist at CNRS, Institut Lumière Matière, Lyon, France When: Wednesday 11 October at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: on zoom https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Water and solutions in nanoporous media: capillarity, osmosis and phase change Abstract: I will discuss a series of experiments that illustrate the rich physics of phase transitions and
Read more about a systematic non-equilibrium thermodynamics approach for assessing transport mechanisms in membrane distillation
The paper from Kim R. Kristiansen, Øivind Wilhelmsen and Signe Kjelstrup was accepted and published under “Desalination” (Volume 567, 1 December 2023, 116927), Congratulations! Read the paper from Kim here: A systematic non-equilibrium thermodynamics approach for assessing transport mechanisms in membrane distillation – ScienceDirect Tittle: A systematic non-equilibrium thermodynamics approach for assessing transport mechanisms in