A scientific symposium celebrating Professor Alex Hansen’s 70th birthday was held at the Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP), Sorbonne University, Paris, on 19–20 March 2026. Organized by colleagues from PoreLab in Norway, ESPCI in France and UFC in Brazil, the event brought together nearly 40 international experts in statistical physics, porous media, fracture mechanics, and complex
Professor Knut Jørgen Måløy, PI at PoreLab, has been elected as a new member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, one of Norway’s most prestigious scholarly institutions. His election was formally approved at the Academy’s members’ meeting on 9 March 2026, as part of the annual admission of new members to the Natural
We are pleased to share with you our annual report for 2025, along with the catalogue for master’s students. The report gives a glimpse of what PoreLab is all about. We present in some detail both the organization of the center and some of our scientific results of 2025. Most importantly, we explain where we
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
