November 2025
Reza Haghani completed his PhD on November 28th, 2025, the Department of Geosciences, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway
Thesis title: Wettability characterization of porous media – Multiphase Lattice-Boltzmann simulation
His supervisors were Carl Fredrik Berg and Eirik G. Flekkøy
June 2025
Fazel Mirzaei completed his PhD on June 10rd, 2025, the Department of Physics, X-ray group, NTNU, Norway
Thesis title: Neutron and X-ray microscopy of water dynamics, liquefaction and ice formation in porous media
His supervisors were Dag Werner Breiby, François Renard and Knut Eilif Aasmundtveit
May 2025
Jennifer Ruth Sheehan completed her PhD on May 23rd, 2025, the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, NTNU, Norway
Thesis title: Decay Behaviour, State Transitions and Escape Rates in Simple Models for Complex Systems
Her supervisors were Astrid de Wijn, Nuria Espallargas and Alex Hansen
April 2025
Håkon Pedersen completed his PhD on April 25th, 2025, the Department of Physics, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway
Thesis title: Geometry of the Co-Moving Velocity in Immiscible and Incompressible Two-Phase Porous Media Flow
His supervisors were Alex Hansen and Knut Jørgen Måløy
March 2025
Paiman Shafabakhsh completed his PhD on March 5th, 2025, the Department of Physics, X-ray group, NTNU, Norway
Thesis title: Imaging and Numerical Modeling of Fluid Mixing in Rocks with Evolving Porosity
His supervisors were François Renard, Gaute Linga, Tanguy Le Borgne and Joachim Mathiesen
February 2025
Caroline Einen completed her PhD on February 28th, 2025, the Department of Physics, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway
Thesis title: Ultrasound-mediated delivery and transport of nanomedicines through the tumor extracellular matrix – effects and possible mechanisms
Her supervisors were Catharina Davies, Signe Kjelstrup, Einar Sulheim and Rune Hansen
February 2025
Mohammad Hossein Golestan completed his PhD on February 7th, 2025, the Department of Geosciences, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway
Thesis title: Pore-scale investigations of fluid flow and interfacial mass transfer
His supervisors were Carl Fredrik Berg and Ole Torsæter
November 2024
Sebastian Price completed his PhD on November 25th, 2024, the Department of Chemistry, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway
Thesis title: Modelling the effect of acoustic streaming and ultrasound-enhanced diffusion on nanoparticle transport in a soft porous media
His supervisors were Anders Lervik, Signe Kjelstrup, Catharina de Lange Davies and Magnus Aa. Gjennestad
September 2024
Hyejeong Cheon completed her PhD on September 16th, 2024, the Department of Physics, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway
Thesis title: Water transport in porous media: From pore scale to biological applications
Her supervisors were Kathrine Røe Redalen and Signe Kjelstrup
May 2024
Kim Roger Kristiansen completed his PhD on May 31st, 2024, the Department of Physics, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway
Thesis title: Thermal Driving forces Across Membrane Systems: Energy Conversion and Water Purification
His supervisors were Signe Kjelstrup and Knut Jørgen Måløy
May 2024
Kim Robert Bjørk Tekseth completed his PhD on May 27th, 2024, the Department of Physics, X-ray group, NTNU, Norway
Thesis title: Computational imaging of structure and liquid dynamics in porous media
His supervisors were Dag Werner Breiby and Alain Gibaud
May 2024
Øystein Gullbrekken completed his PhD on May 22nd, 2024, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway
Thesis title: Coupled Transport in Li-ion Battery Electrolytes
His supervisors were Sverre Magnus Selbach and Sondre Kvalvåg Schnell
April 2024
Hao Gao completed his PhD on April 29th, 2024, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway
Thesis title: Thermo-hydro-mechanical Simulation of Frost Heave using Extended Finite Element Method
His supervisors were Gustav Grimstad, Seyed Ali Ghoreishian Amiri and Elena Scibilia
January 2024
Aldritt Scaria Madathiparambil completed his PhD on January 25th, 2024, the Department of Physics, X-ray group, NTNU, Norway
Thesis title: Multiscale X-ray tomography for shale microstructure and mechanical behaviour
His supervisors were Dag W. Breiby, Pierre Rolf Cerasi, Alain Gibaud and Basab Chattopadhyay
November 2023
Federico Lanza completed his PhD on November 3rd, 2023, as a joint international PhD degree between the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques (LPTMS), CNRS at University Paris-Saclay in France and the Department of Physics, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway
Thesis title: Optimal path for the flow of yield stress fluids
His supervisors were Alberto Rosso, Alex Hansen and Laurent Talon
October 2023
Hursanay Fyhn completed her PhD on October 27th, 2023, at the Department of Physics, PoreLab, NTNU
Thesis title: Dynamic pore network study of immiscible two-phase flow in porous media
Her supervisors were Alex Hansen and Knut Jørgen Måløy
October 2023
Astrid Fagertun Gunnarshaug completed her PhD on October 19th, 2023, at the Department of Chemistry, PoreLab, NTNU
Thesis title: Thermoelectric Phenomena in Lithium Ion Batteries and Thermogalvanic Cells
Her supervisors were Signe Kjelstrup and Odne Stokke Burheim
October 2022
Davood Dadrasajirlou completed his PhD on October 31st, 2022, at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, PoreLab, NTNU
Thesis title: Hyper-Viscoplastic Modelling of Clay Behaviour
His supervisors were Gustav Grimstad and Seyed Ali Ghoreishian Amiri
October 2022
Michael Tobias Rauter completed his PhD on October 5th, 2022 from the Department of Chemistry, PoreLab, NTNU
Thesis title: Fluid transport through nanoporous madia in the presence of phase transitions
His supervisors were Signe Kjelstrup, Sondre K. Schnell and Øivind Wilhelmsen
September 2022
Vilde Bråten completed her PhD on September 30th, 2022, at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, PoreLab, NTNU
Thesis title: Fundamental Aspects of Thermodynamics of Small Systems Investigated Through Molecular Simulations and Theoretical Descriptions
Her supervisors were Sondre K. Schnell and Øivind Wilhelmsen
May 2022
Olav Galteland completed his PhD on May 10th, 2022 at the Department of Chemistry, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway
Thesis title: Nanothermodynamics and Molecular Simulations of Fluids in Porous Media
His supervisors were Signe Kjelstrup, Bjørn Hafskjold and Dick Bedeaux
March 2022
Robin Sam Vacher completed his PhD on March 30th, 2022 from the Department of mechanical and Industrial Engineering, NTNU, Norway
Thesis title: Nanoscale trobological simulations of a semi-crystalline polymer
His supervisors were Astrid de Wijn and Sergio Armada Nieto
December 2021
Seunghan Song completed his PhD on December 9th, 2021 from the Department of Physics, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway
Thesis title: Thermal Processing of semiconductor alloy core glass fibers
His supervisors were Ursula Gibson, Alex Hansen and Signe Kjelstrup
November 2021
Louison Thorens completed his PhD on November 17th, 2021, as a joint degree PhD between the Department of Physics, PoreLab, University of Oslo, Norway and the Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
Thesis title: Unstable drainage of frictional fluids and magnetic control of the mechanical behaviour of confined granular media
His supervisors were Knut Jørgen Måløy, Eirik Grude Flekkøy, Mickaël Bourgoin and Stéphane Santucci
October 2021
Chuangxin Lyu completed his PhD on October 19th, 2021 from the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, PoreLab, NTNU.
Thesis title: Mechanical behavior of frozen saline clay: laboratory, field and numerical investigation
His supervisors were Gustav Grimstad and Seyed Ali Ghoreishian Amiri
June 2021
Eivind Bering completed his PhD on June 4th, 2021 at the Department of Physics, PoreLab, NTNU
Thesis title: Stretching, breaking, and dissolution of polymeric nanofibres by computer experiments
His supervisors were Alex Hansen and Astrid de Wijn
April 2021
Fredrik Kristoffer Mürer completed his PhD on April 9th, 2021 from the department of Physics, X-ray group, NTNU
Thesis title: Diffractive X-ray Tomography of Oriented Mineralized Structures in Hierarchical Materials
His supervisors were Dag Werner Breiby, Magnus Borstad Lilledahl and Kristin Olstad
February 2021
Marco Sauermoser completed his PhD on February 19th, 2021 from the department of Chemistry, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway
Thesis title: Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and nature-inspired chemical engineering applied to PEM fuel cells
His supervisors were Signe Kjelstrup and Bruno G. Pollet
January 2021
Kristian Stølevik Olsen completed his PhD on January 29th, 2021 from the Department of Physics, PoreLab, UiO, Norway
Thesis title: Active and passive Brownian particles in complex environments
His supervisors were Eirik Grude Flekkøy and Knut Jørgen Måløy
November 2020
Magnus Aashammer Gjennestad completed his PhD on November 24th, 2020 at the Department of Physics, PoreLab, NTNU
Thesis title: Modelling of two-phase equilibrium, stability nd steady-state flow in porous media
His supervisors were Alex Hansen, Signe Kjelstrup and Øivind Wilhelmsen
May 2020
Alberto Luis Bila completed his PhD on May 20th, 2020, at the Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, PoreLab, NTNU
Thesis title: Experimental Investigation of Surface-Functionalized Silica Nanoparticles for Enhanced Oil Recovery
His supervisors were Ole Torsæter and Jan Åge Stensen
March 2020
Ailo Aasen completed his PhD on March 27th, 2020 from the Department of Energy and Process Engineering, PoreLab NTNU
Thesis title: Bulk and Interfacial Thermodynamics of Mixtures: From Aqueous Systems to Ultracryogenic Fluids
His supervisors were Øivind Wilhelmsen and Morten Hammer
December 2019
Jonas Tøgersen Kjellstadli completed his PhD on December 17th, 2019 from the Department of Physics, PoreLab, NTNU
Thesis title: Local Versus Equal Load Sharing in the Fiber Bundle Model
His supervisors were Alex Hansen and Asle Sudbø
December 2019
Monem Ayaz completed his PhD on December 16th, 2019 as a joint Phd degree between the Department of Physics, PoreLab UiO and the Department of Physics and Engineering at the University of Strasbourg, France.
Thesis title: Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Cluster Morphologies and Dynamic During Biphasic Flow in Porous Media
His supervisors were Renaud Toussaint, Gerhard Schafer and Knut Jørgen Måløy
December 2019
Bahador Najafiazar completed his PhD on December 13th, 2019 from the Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, PoreLab, NTNU
Thesis title: HyGreGel: A New Class of Gel Systems for Water Diversion by In-depth Reservoir Placement
His supervisors were Ole Torsæter, Torleif Holt and Jan Åge Stensen
December 2019
Reidun Cecilie Grønfur Aadland completed her PhD on December 5th, 2019 from the Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, PoreLab, NTNU
Thesis title: Experimental Study of Flow of Nanocellulose in Porous Media for Enhanced Oil Recovery Application
Her supervisors were Ole Torsæter and Kristin Syverud
June 2019
Le Xu completed his PhD on June 21st, 2019 from the department of Physics, PoreLab UiO, Norway
Thesis title: Experimental Observations of Dissolution in Fractures in Circular Geometry
His supervisors were Knut Jørgen Måløy and Eirik Grude Flekkøy