Per Ivar Einejord Friborg joined PoreLab at the department of Physics, NTNU in Trondheim, on September 15th, 2026, as a PhD candidate for 3 years. Per Ivar holds a master in Chemical Processes Technology from NTNU. His position is financed by DYNCAT, a FRIPRO project financed by the Research Council of Norway (see PoreLab annual
Dr. Pranay Shrestha joined PoreLab at the University of Oslo on September 1st, 2026, as a postdoctoral researcher for 2 years. His position is financed by the HORIZON-Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) program 2024 for Postdoctoral Fellowships. His project is titled: EnergyLeap – Leveraging wettability in computational design tools for porous materials Pranay earned his PhD
On 10 September, Tomislav Vuković successfully defended his PhD thesis, Systematic Testing of the Streaming Potential Method for Wettability Characterization in Porous Media, at the Department of Geosciences, NTNU. His research investigated whether electrical signals generated when fluids flow through porous materials can be used to measure wettability, an important property controlling how fluids move
The article by Vegard Jervell and Øivind Wilhelmsen on coupling residual entropy scaling to revised Enskog theory (REST) was selected as Editor’s Pick in The Journal of Chemical Physics. The article is titled: Coupling residual entropy scaling and revised Enskog theory (REST): A predictive framework for multicomponent transport properties from dilute gas to dense liquid
Two-phase flow of a yield-stress fluid in a porous medium Contact: Laurent Talon (laurent.talon@universite-paris-saclay.fr), Alex Hansen (alex.hansen@ntnu.no) Context: Complex fluid flows play a key role in many industrial processes. Among non-Newtonian rheological behaviors, we focus here on yield-stress fluids, which only flow when the applied stress exceeds a critical value. Below this threshold, the material
Large crowds at events such as music festivals may appear chaotic, but researchers have shown that they often follow predictable patterns. Photo: Ton of rocks In an article from forskning.no published on 15 August 2026, here, physicist Eirik G. Flekkøy, PI at PoreLab, and anthropologist Tone Sommerfelt combine their expertise to explain how and why
Doctoral Candidate Hristina Dragovic at the Department of Energy and Process Engineering will hold a trial lecture and defend her doctoral thesis for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD). The degree is administered by the Faculty of Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Thesis title Experimental investigation of the transport of water
Open the article here: Dynamic multiphase flow triggers chaotic mixing in porous media | PNAS Authors: Gaute Linga, Kevin Pierce, Marcel Moura, Joachim Mathiesen, François Renard and Tanguy Le Borgne Significance Chemical and biological processes in soils, rocks, and industrial porous media are often controlled by the mixing of chemicals by fluid flow. When a single fluid phase carries dissolved chemicals through a porous medium, the
Who: Dr. Isha Savani Affiliation: Isha Savani is a Research Associate at the Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS) in Trieste, Italy. She is currently based in Oslo, collaborating with the environmental institute NILU and the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Her research lies at the intersection of water law and atmospheric
Zhengwei Cheng joined PoreLab on January 19, 2026, as a PhD candidate on a three-year contract. He is the second 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 funding scheme
Deadline: 21 June 2026 Employer: NTNU, Trondheim, Norway See advertisement and apply here: PhD Candidate in Computational Porous Media Physics (302781) | NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology About the position Are you motivated to take a step towards a doctorate and open exciting career opportunities? As a PhD Candidate with us, you will
Who: Dr. Miles Morgan Affiliation: Complex Fluids Research Group, Swansea University, Wales, UK When: April 22th, between 13:00 and 14:00 CET (Norway time) Where: https://uio.zoom.us/j/69096081290?pwd=bg1XKTMKjweeHqxM77VmAfbOLPD0o6.1 Title: Flow regimes and instabilities in a fluid-driven granular silo Abstract: Fluid-driven flow of granular materials can generate complex behaviour and instabilities in natural and industrial systems. Here we study a submerged silo in which
Who: Professor Guillaume Galliero Affiliation: Laboratory of Complex Fluids and their Reservoirs (LFCR), University of Pau & Pays de l’Adour, France When: April 15th, 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 ( Porelab Oslo). From anywhere else, you will be
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
