The PoreLab-Alumni Group

Apply to become member of PoreLab Alumni and get the opportunity to participate in the Alumni activities! 

Take contact with Marie-Laure Olivier (Marie-Laure.Olivier@ntnu.no)

or Signe Kjelstrup (signe.kjelstrup@ntnu.no)

Mission of PoreLab Alumni:

The mission of PoreLab-Alumni is to develop a network that offers a welcoming atmosphere for future and existing alumni. It creates a link between old and new members of PoreLab. One purpose is to facilitate recruitment of PoreLab PhD students. Another is to disseminate recent research from PoreLab.

Activities:

The central part of the activity in the Alumni-forum is a lecture program which switches between career-information programs/ talks about job opportunities / and information on ongoing work.

Why joining the PoreLab-Alumni Group?

As PoreLab Alumni member, you may take an active role in our global alumni network. You can keep up to date in PoreLab’s field and continue to develop your network and collaboration through PoreLab’ lectures and seminars. You will receive research news from PoreLab. And we hope that you become a bridge builder in particular between PoreLab and the industrial sector. As a member, you can also take part in our yearly PoreLab-Alumni meeting. 

Members:

All former graduates of PoreLab PI’s will automatically be considered as members of the alumni-group if nothing else is wished for. Guests in PoreLab can also become members after application to the group of PI’s.  Each member is responsible for keeping the administration updated about address, current job situation etc.

The first PoreLab-Alumni meeting was on March 18th 2022

The idea is to stay in touch with former PoreLab PhD students/Postdocs and to hear what they are doing now after they’ve left the sacred chambers. 

The evening was organized into two parts: 

1. 16:30 ~ 18:30 (PoreLab): Presentations + Games
2. 18:30 ~ open end: Dinner

Leader of the PoreLab Alumni Group

Signe Kjelstrup

Professor Emerita, Department of Chemistry at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

E-mail: Signe.Kjelstrup@ntnu.no

To become Alumni Member, Please Contact:

Marie-Laure Olivier

Administrative Leader for PoreLab at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

E-mail: marie-laure.olivier@ntnu.no

This is the list of PoreLab Alumni Members (in alphabetical order):

Olav Aursjø was a researcher at PoreLab UiO until 2020. He is now Researcher at IRIS AS, Stavanger, Norway

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

He is now sole proprietorship for his company, Monem Ayaz, working on Internet design and programming, and located in Oslo, Norway

Beatrice Baldelli, PhD candidate at PoreLab UiO until 2022, is now Software engineer in Vizrt, Bergen, Norway

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

 He is now a Machine Learning Software Developer at Wavetrain Systems AS, Norway

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

He is now University lecturer at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique

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

Following her PhD, she joined Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau in Germany as a Postdoctoral researcher for 1 year in 2023. She is now researcher on absorption at N2 Applied in Asker, Norway

James Campbell was a postdoctoral researcher at PoreLab UiO until 2020. He is now a data scientist working for the Ministry of Justice in United Kingdom

Hyejeong Cheon completed her PhD on September 16, 2024, at the department of Physics, PoreLab, NTNU.

Thesis title: Water transport in porous media: From pore scale to biological applications

Davood Dadrasajirlou completed his PhD on October 31st, 2022, at the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, PoreLab, NTNU

Thesis title: Hyper-Viscoplastic Modelling of Clay Behaviour

He is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NTNU, Norway

Guillaume Dumazer was a researcher at PoreLab UiO until 2018. He is now Associate Professor at the Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France

Caroline Einen completed her PhD on February 28th, 2025, at the Department of Physics, PoreLab, NTNU.

Thesis title: Ultrasound-mediated delivery and transport of nanomedicines through the tumor extracellular matrix – effects and possible mechanisms

She is now a research scientist at SINTEF Energy AS, Trondheim, Norway

Fredrik Kvalheim Eriksen was a postdoctoral research at PoreLab UiO until 2021. He is now scientist working for the Norwegian Defense Research Est. in Oslo, Norway

Hamidreza Erfani Gahrooei was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, PoreLab, NTNU, until 2022. He is now Senior Research Scientist at Equinor in Trondheim, Norway

Yuequn Fu was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Physics, PoreLab, University of Oslo from June 2022 until July 2024. He worked on both experimental and theoretical aspects of multiphase flow and pattern formation in frictional fluids and porous media.

Hursanay Fyhn completed her PhD on October 27th, 2023 at the Department of Physics, NTNU, Norway

Thesis title: Dynamic pore network study of immiscible two-phase flow in porous media

She is now research scientist at SINTEF Energy Research in Trondheim, Norway

Olav Galteland completed his PhD on May 10th, 2022 at the Department of Chemistry, NTNU, Norway

Thesis title: Nanothermodynamics and Molecular Simulations of Fluids in Porous Media

He is now Research scientist at SINTEF Energy Research in Trondheim, Norway

Hao Gao, completed his PhD on April 29, 2024 at the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway.

Thesis title: Thermo-hydro-mechanical Simulation of Frost Heave using Extended Finite Element Method

He is now a Geotechnical Engineer at IKM Ocean Design AS in Oslo, Norway

Ashkan Jahanbani Ghahfarokhi was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, PoreLab, NTNU, until 2018. He has been Associate Professor at the Department of Geoscience, NTNU in Trondheim, Norway, since January 2019. He started a new position as Fulbright Scholar at University of Southern California, USA, in March 2025.

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

He is now a Research Scientist at SINTEF Energy Research in Trondheim, Norway

Mohammad Hossein Golestan, PhD candidate at the Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, PoreLab, NTNU, until 2021. he is now a Full Stack Software Engineer at SLB in Oslo, Norway

Øystein Gullbrekken completed his PhD on May 22nd, 2024 at the department of of Materials Science and Engineering, NTNU, Norway.

Thesis title: Coupled Transport in Li-ion Battery Electrolytes

He is now a postdoctoral fellow in the ALCBATT project at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering where he studies potential electrolytes for Al-C batteries by Molecular Dynamics simulations. Specifically, he works with understanding how the transport occurs in these electrolytes

Astrid Fagertun Gunnarshaug completed her PhD on October 19th, 2023 at the department of Chemistry, NTNU, Norway

Thesis title: Thermoelectric Phenomena in Lithium Ion Batteries and Thermogalvanic Cells

She is now leading R&D at HYDS – Hydrogen Solutions – in Leirvik, Norway

Hamid H. Khanamiri was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, PoreLab, NTNU, until 2020. He is now a Software Developer at SAP in Trondheim, Norway

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

He is now a Data Scientist at VitalThings in Trondheim, Norway

Kim Roger Kristiansen completed his PhD on May 31st, 2024 at the department of Chemistry, NTNU, Norway.

Thesis title: Thermal Driving forces Across Membrane Systems: Energy Conversion and Water Purification

He is now a Chemical Engineering Specialist at Ocean GeoLoop AS in Verdal, Norway

Haili Long-Sanouiller was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, PoreLab, NTNU, until 2022. She is now Principal Reservoir Engineer at Equinor in Trondheim, Norway

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

He is now Associate Professor at the Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway

Aldritt Scaria Madathiparambil completed his PhD on January 25, 2024 from the department of Physics, NTNU

Thesis Title: Multiscale X-ray tomography for shale microstructure and mechanical behaviour

He is now an engineer at Testpartner AS in Mo i Rana, Nordland, Norway, since February 2024

Fredrik Kristoffer Mürer completed his PhD on April 9th, 2021 from the department of Physics, NTNU

Thesis title: Diffractive X-ray Tomography of Oriented Mineralized Structures in Hierarchical Materials

He is now Research Scientist at SINTEF Helgeland in Mo i Rana, Norway

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

He is now Cloud Software Engineer at SLB in Oslo, Norway

Håkon Pedersen completed his PhD on April 25th, 2025 at the Department of Physics, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway.

Thesis title: Geometry of the Co-Moving Velocity in Immiscible and Incompressible Two-Phase Porous Media Flow

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

He is now a postdoctoral researcher at Nordita in Stockholm, Sweden

Srutarshi Pradhan was a researcher at the Department of Physics, PoreLab, NTNU until 2021. He is now Research Advisor at the faculty of Architecture and Design at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

Sebastian Everard Nordby Price completed his PhD on November 25th, 2024 at the department of Chemistry, PoreLab, NTNU

Thesis title: Modelling the effect of acoustic streaming and ultrasound-enhanced diffusion on nanoparticle transport in a soft porous media

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

He is now a Scientist working on the ZEROe project at Airbus in Hamburg, Germany

Subhadeep Roy was a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Physics, PoreLab, NTNU until 2021. He is now Assistant Professor at Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Hyderabad, India

Jonas Rønning completed his PhD in condensed matter physics in the fall 2023 at the University of Oslo. He is now a postdoctoral researcher in the non linear and non-equilibrium unit at Okinawa Institute of science and technology in Japan.

Per Arne Slotte was researcher at the Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, PoreLab, NTNU until 2022. He is now retired.

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

He is now Staff Engineer working for the DRAM Technology Development Team in Semiconductor research center of Samsung Electronics in Seoul, South Korea

Kim Robert Bjørk Tekseth completed his PhD on May 27th, 2024 at the Department of Physics, NTNU, Norway.

Thesis title: Computational imaging of structure and liquid dynamics in porous media

He is now System Developer at Q-Free ASA since September 2023. 

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

He is now a Postdoctoral researcher at Tufts University in Massachusetts, USA

Quoc Anh Tran was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, PoreLab, NTNU from June 2021 until August 2024. Born in Vietnam, he pursued his education in France and Finland before moving to Norway.

Quoc Anh is now a geotechnical engineer at COWI. COWI is an international consultancy within engineering, architecture, energy and environment.

Antoine Léo Turquet was researcher at PoreLab UiO until 2020. He is now Researcher at DAS & Infrasound, NORSAR in Oslo, Norway

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

He is now Research scientist at SINTEF Industry, Trondheim, Norway

Morten Vassvik, PhD candidate at the department of Physics, NTNU until 2018 is now Co-founder and Lead Programmer for JangaFX in Egersund, Norway

Tom Vincent-Dospital was a postdoctoral researcher at PoreLab UiO until 2022. He is now a Scientific Computing Engineer at SLB Oslo, Norway

Mathias Winkler was a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Physics, PoreLab NTNU, Norway, until 2021. He is now Senior Engineer Business Analytics, Sopra Steria, Trondheim, Norway

Lu Xia was a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Chemistry, PoreLab, NTNU from October 2022 until September 2024.

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

He is now Lecturer at the Changzhou Institute of Technology in Changzhou China

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

She is now full-time parenting in Stavanger, Norway

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

He is now Research Scientist at SINTEF Energy Research, Trondheim, Norway