Author Archives: PoreLab

Thesis defence of Stein-Martin Fagerland on “Nanoparticles, ultrasound and microbubble mediated drug delivery in cancer model”, June 12th

By PoreLab9 June, 2020Thesis Defence, Uncategorized

Text from Professor Catharina de Lange Davies Stein-Martin Fagerland will defend his PhD thesis “Nanoparticles, ultrasound and microbubble mediated drug delivery in cancer model” on Friday June 12th. The defence will take place in room S21, in Sentralbygget 2. Floor at Gløshaugen, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. The schedule is different from normal as the 2. opponent

5th EarthFlows seminar on June 11th and 12th at UiO & Zoom

By PoreLab3 June, 2020Conference/Symposium/Workshop

Welcome to the annual EarthFlows seminar organised at the Njord center, University of Oslo, Norway. The seminar will be held on June 11th and 12th, with speakers and audience both attending from the seminar room Kelvin at Blindern, University of Oslo, and by Zoom. If you wish to attend the seminar, please sign up here:

PoreLab researcher invited on live TV in Brazil

By PoreLab28 May, 2020Popular science presentation

PoreLab researcher, Marcel Moura, was on live TV on May 18th, 2020, in Brazil. It was a special program about the anniversary of his hometown Caruaru (18/05). He talked about PoreLab’s activities and showed a video of the Flying Chain experiment. He talked as well about a very relevant topic during this corona time, namely

Free ebook available for the last release: “Nanothermodynamics-general theory”

By PoreLab28 May, 2020Publications

ebook available here >> More information about “Nanothermodynamics – general theory” here >> From left to right: Sondre Schnell, Signe Kjelstrup and Dick Bedeaux

Two open positions (PhD + postdoc) in Reservoir Engineering and Petrophysics at NTNU

By PoreLab22 May, 2020Vacant Positions

About the PhD position We have a vacancy for a three-year PhD scholarship in the research group Reservoir Engineering and Petrophysics at the Department of Geoscience and Petroleum (IGP) at NTNU. The position is part of the project “Pore Scale Simulations for Wettability Description” funded by The Research Council of Norway. It will be in

Open PhD position in machine learning and data mining for lubricant formulation

By PoreLab21 May, 2020Vacant Positions

About the position The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering has a vacancy for a PhD candidate in machine learning and data mining for lubricant formulation in the Materials Group. We are looking for candidates with a background in one or ideally more of these areas: machine learning, computational science, statistics, data mining, statistical physics,

New Release: Nanothermodynamics – General Theory

By PoreLab12 May, 2020Publications

The world of small systems challenges standard knowledge. Can we use classical thermodynamics? The answer to that is no. The book discusses how Terrill Hill developed the field of nanothermodynamics, which applies perfectly well also to small systems, to address this problem. He introduced an ensemble of replicas of the small system and showed that

Vejen til frihed

By PoreLab11 May, 2020Popular science presentation

Exit-strategi : Kan vi forhindre nye bølger af COVID-19 ved hjælp af såkaldt kontaktsporing? Ja, viser en gruppe forskere: Ved hjælp af overvågning, test og karantæne er det muligt at holde smitten i ave.Les artikkelen fra Gaute Linga og Kristian Stølevik Olsen, Postdok og PhD kandidat fra institutt for fysikk ved Universitet i Oslo her: https://www.weekendavisen.dk/2020-19/ideer/vejen-til-frihed?fbclid=IwAR12qfhJy6y3HE_EmtcDboTZ_TzycjBu-JOdHM47JHTF59QLW7r4l07N3qg Figuren

Splitter ny 3D-skanner følger væsker fra hulrom til hulrom

By PoreLab11 May, 2020Popular science presentation

Nytt verktøy kan avsløre hemmeligheter om vann i et vannreservoar, olje i et oljereservoar og CO2 under havbunnen. I en ny artikkel fra Eivind Torgersen under Titan.no, viser fram Professor Knut Jørgen Måløy og PhD kandidat Joachim Falck Brodin nyvinningen som åpner nye dører i forskning på det som kalles porøse

Two new INTPART projects at PoreLab

By PoreLab30 April, 2020New research project

We are very happy to announce that two INTPART applications directly connected to PoreLab were selected for funding under the 2019 RCN call. INTPART – the “Programme for International Partnerships for Excellent Education, Research and Innovation” – aims at the development of long-term relations between Norwegian higher education and research institutions in a group of

Open position at NTNU for a Professor or Associate Professor in physical chemistry

By PoreLab29 April, 2020Vacant Positions

The department of Chemistry at NTNU is recruiting a Professor or Associate Professor in physical chemistry with special emphasis on non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Here is the link to the press release for the position: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/186599/professor-associate-professor-in-physical-chemistry Application deadline: 15.06.2020 Advertisement here >>

Open Summer Job at PoreLab

By PoreLab28 April, 2020Vacant Positions

PoreLab (Porous Media Laboratory) is offering one position for a summer job. PoreLab is a Norwegian Research Council Center of Excellence created in 2017 and situated at NTNU in Trondheim, and the University of Oslo (UiO). The center’s objective is to develop a generalized statistical mechanics for porous media flow at the pore level which

Watch the tea bag experiment and learn more about two-phase flow in porous media

By PoreLab23 April, 2020Popular science presentation

Read the Titan article from Marcel Moura here (in Norwegian): https://titan.uio.no/naturvitenskap-fysikk/2020/ta-en-kopp-te-og-tenk-pa-jordskjelv It is based on the recent publication: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2019.00217/full

Frontiers and NTNU form open access publishing agreement

By PoreLab22 April, 2020Publications

Announcement from Frontiers, posted on April 2, 2020 The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), supports their authors in publishing open access. As part of this support, NTNU will cover Article Processing Charges (APCs) for eligible articles centrally for their eligible authors. As part of the UNIT Open Access Publishing Framework Agreement, NTNU will

Do you wish to receive the invitations to our PoreLab lectures? Take contact with Marie-Laure Olivier (Marie-Laure.Olivier@ntnu.no)

All PoreLab Lecture Series – CLICK HERE

1 May 2024: Roel Dullens, Professor of Physics & Chemistry of Soft Matter, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

15 May 2024: Alexander Shapiro, Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Center for Energy Resources Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

22 May 2024: Oshri Borgman, Researcher in environmental hydrology and soil science, MIGAL, Galilee Research Institute, Qiryat Shemona, Israel

29 May 2024: Joaquim Jimenez-Martinez, Research Scientist-Group Leader at Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) and Lecturer and Research Associate at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering-ETH Zurich, Switzerland

5 June 2024: Associate Professor Peter K. Kang, University of Minnesota, USA

All PoreLab Lecture Series – CLICK HERE