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 in India. The title of her PhD was: Interfacial Instability in porous medium flow: Influencing factors of viscous fingering. During her PhD she explored, through experimental investigations and numerical simulations, the intricate dynamics of viscous fingering in porous media, and identified and highlighted the key factors that critically influence this phenomenon.
Pooja holds a Master degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) in Dhanbad, in India, and a Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering, M.J.P., from Rohilkhand University in Bareilly in India
She describes her project as follow:
I joined PoreLab as a postdoctoral fellow in October 2025. My postdoctoral research focuses on the complex dynamics of immiscible fluid flow in porous media, aiming to experimentally validate theoretical frameworks developed under the European Research Council project AGIPORE, CORDIS 101141323. This theory, based on a statistical mechanics approach, derives effective equations governing multiphase flow in which emergent variables and thermodynamic-like relations arise from linking pore-scale physics to continuum-scale behaviour. In this context, my work focuses on examining the experimental consequences and validity of this theory, aiming to link pore-scale flow mechanisms to continuum-scale dynamics for a comprehensive understanding of multiphase flow and transport in porous media. To this end, I will design and fabricate 3D printed model porous media that enables systematic experimental investigations of multiphase flow. Advanced imaging and quantitative analysis techniques, particularly Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), will be employed to resolve velocity fields, interfacial dynamics, and phase distributions, thereby providing detailed insights into the dynamics of multiphase flow in complex porous structures.