Dr, Steffen Berg, PoreLab Scientific Advisory Board member, has been awarded the prestigious Darcy Award from the Society of Core Analysts, SCA (The Society of Core Analysts). Congratulations! The SCA board wrote the following to Steffen Berg: This recognition is a testament to your incredible dedication and exceptional contribution to our field. Your passion and
Who: Dr. Harold Auradou, head of the FAST laboratory at Université Paris-Saclay and CNRS researcher When: Wednesday, 14 May between 13:00 and 14:00 CET (Norway time). Where: zoom here Https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Bacterial Suspension Flow in Porous Media Summary: Bacteria are equipped with flagella, which enable them to move within their fluid environment. Physicists view these biological entities as active particles. This
Jennifer R. Sheehan has submitted the following academic thesis as part of the doctoral work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Mechanical andIndustrial Engineering:Decay Behaviour, State Transitions and Escape Rates in Simple Models for ComplexSystems Assessment Committee The Faculty has appointed the following Assessment Committee to assess the thesis:– Professor
The 3rd call for the EXCITE transnational access is now open. The European EXCITE Network provides academic and industrial users from all over the globe with free-of-charge Transnational Access (TNA) to state-of-the-art imaging facilities. The X-ray facility at NTNU is also accessible as part of the call. Costs related to access including travel is covered by the project.
Yann Dumay joined PoreLab on January 2nd, 2025, as PhD candidate. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Science, specialising in Physics, from the University of South Brittany, France, in 2019. Subsequently, he completed a Master’s degree in Materials Science, focusing on composite materials, at the Engineering School of Nantes, France, in 2022. Post-graduation, Yann joined
Congratulations to Associate Professor Raffaela Cabriolu, associated member of PoreLab, and Dr. Francesca Bleken from SINTEF Industry. Their proposal on “Multiscale dynamics of the semi-catalytic Rochow-Müller process” received funding from the Research Council of Norway through the FRIPRO program. DYNCAT, acronym for “Multiscale dynamics of the semi-catalytic Rochow-Müller process” aims to provide a highly predictive
Who: Professor Panos Papanastasiou from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Cyprus When: Thrusday April 24 at 13:15 CET (Norway time). Where: Auditorium P1, PTS1, Trondheim, Norway Title: The potential of repurposing depleting natural gas reservoirs for green hydrogen storage Summary This research work explores the potential of repurposing depleting natural gas reservoirs for green hydrogen
Who: Nathan Abitbol, PhD candidate in FAST Laboratory (Fluides, Automatique et Systèmes Thermiques) at the Université Paris-Saclay, France When: Wednesday April 23 at 13:00 CET (Norway time). Where: The lecture will be in-person in the common room (PoreLab Trondheim) and will be streamed in the Kelvin room (PoreLab Oslo). From anywhere else, you will be able to join
Nysgjerrige Norge – episode 11: Alt er porøst? Kristopher Schau besøker Senter for porøse medier (PoreLab) og møter Alex Hansen, Eirik Grude Flekkøy og Marcel Moura. Sammen diskuterer de hvorfor porøse medier – alt fra jord, hud og kaffe til trafikk og pandemimasker – er overalt rundt oss. Hvorfor er dette så viktig, men likevel så
Håkon Pedersen has submitted the following academic thesis as part of the doctoral work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU):“Geometry of the Co-Moving Velocity in Immiscible and Incompressible Two-Phase Porous Media Flow” Assessment CommitteeThe Faculty of Natural Sciences has appointed the following Assessment Committee to assess thethesis:– Professor Bjarne Andresen, Niels Bohr
Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce that this year’s annual meeting of the Norwegian Chapter of InterPore will be held in Bergen on May 13-14, 2025. This two-day event, organized in collaboration with the VISTA-funded Center for Modeling of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics (UiB), will serve as both the center’s final conference and our chapter’s
Sigrid Ausnmo joined PoreLab on January 6th, 2025, as PhD candidate. Sigrid holds a master’s degree in Physics and Mathematics from NTNU, with a specialization in physics, more particularly in quantum solid state physics. Her master thesis was on quantum effects in superconducting multilayer structures. She joined SINTEF Energy Research in September 2023 and took a
Maud Viallet joined PoreLab in September 2024 as PhD candidate at the department of Physics, PoreLab, University of Oslo She introduces herself as follow: I am a PhD student in cotutelle with the University of Oslo and the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France). I work in Porelab on viscous flows in porous media and
Antoine Dop joined PoreLab as a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Physics, University of Oslo, in October 2024. His position is financed by PoreLab. Antoine introduces his research activities as follow: I study granular materials and pattern formation processes using a combination of numerical simulations and laboratory experiments. During my masters I started studying
Bjarte Matre joined PoreLab on December 9th, 2024, as PhD candidate. His position is financed by PoreLab. His supervisors are Professors Alex Hansen and Carl Fredrik Berg. Bjarte holds a master’s degree in physics from 2024, specializing in quantum physics, mathematics, and numerical computations. His master’s thesis, titled “Fingerprinting of Quantum Ground State Manifolds” focuses
