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
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
