Congratulations to Vegard! His latest article on how quantum effects should be represented in the thermophysical properties of substances such as hydrogen was selected as an Editor’s Pick in The Journal of Chemical Physics. An important piece of work with relevance for hydrogen transport and storage in porous media. Title: The limits of Feynman–Hibbs corrections
Who: Giacomo Luani, PhD candidate at the Porous Media Physics section, Department of Physics, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway When: Wednesday 1 October, 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
Vitor Heitor Cardoso Cunha joined PoreLab at the Department of Chemistry, NTNU, on September 1st, 2025, as postdoctoral researcher. This is a 3-year contract. His research focuses on the theoretical and computational study of complex fluid systems, with emphasis on dynamical systems modeling, wetting and capillarity, and liquid-vapor phase transitions at sub-micron scales. Vitor holds
Mohammad Hassan Taleghani joined PoreLab on August 4th, 2025, as a PhD candidate. He completed his M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering, and he is interested in a wide range of topics within fluid mechanics, multi-phase flow, heat transfer, and thermodynamics. He likes to combine numerical, experimental, and analytical methods to address fundamental questions in fluid
Dear Porous Media enthusiasts, You are warmly invited to the next Porous Media Tea Time Talk (#PorousMediaTTT) on Tuesday August 19th, 2025 at 9:30 am PST, 12:30 pm EST and 18:30 pm CEST featuring two exciting talks from US young researchers. We greatly invite you to share this event in your network and to attend the live
The COmputational multi-Scale materials societY (COSY) Gemini senter event will be held on August 22, 2025, at Realfagbygget, NTNU. The morning talks will cover a range of length scales of interest to materials simulation, and in the afternoon, Dr. Alin Marin Elena from the Daresbury Laboratory, UK, will speak on Machine Learned Potentials. A light lunch will be
Anisa Nugrahaningtyas joined PoreLab at the Department of Geosciences, NTNU, on July 1st, 2025, as PhD candidate. She completed her M.Sc degree in Petroleum Engineering from Khalifa University, UAE, in August 2023. The title of her master thesis was: Evaluation of Customized Polyacrylamide Based Co-Polymers for EOR Application through Integrated Screening Approach. She hold a
Read the advertisement and apply for the job here: PhD Research Fellow in fluid mechanics of droplet flow on complex fibers (284106) | University of Oslo Deadline: 15 August 2025 About the position One or two PhD Research Fellow positions are available at the Department of Mathematics in the research group of Prof. Andreas Carlson
Johannes Salomonsen Løken joined PoreLab on February 24th, 2025, as PhD candidate at the Department of Chemistry. He earned his master’s degree in Industrial Chemistry and Biotechnology with a specialization in Advanced Theoretical Chemistry in 2024. Johannes presents his PhD topic as follow: My PhD project is part of the ERC-funded project Interlab: “Unravelling the
InterPore 18th Annual Meeting, InterPore2026, will be held in Nantes, France, on May 19-22, 2026 (Conference Courses: 18 & 23 May, 2025). Nantes is a major European metropolis that offers a dynamic blend of innovation, accessibility, and cultural appeal. At the heart of a university research hub with over 40,000 students, and strong academic sectors in healthcare and engineering,
Who: Associate professor Davide Picchi from the University of Brescia, Italy When: Wednesday 25 June, between 11:00 and 12:00 CET (Norway time). Note that it is at 11 instead of the usual 13:00 Where: The lecture will be in-person in the common room (PoreLab Trondheim). From anywhere else, you will be able to join via the following Zoom
FAZEL MIRZAEI – THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS Fazel Mirzaei has submitted the following academic thesis as part of the doctoral work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU): “Neutron and X-ray microscopy of water dynamics, liquefaction and ice formation in porous media” Assessment Committee The Faculty of Natural Sciences has appointed the following Assessment
Read the advertisement and apply for the job here: Postdoctoral Fellows in membrane biophysics: Droplet/condensate wetting at cellular membranes (280781) | University of Oslo Deadline: 8 June 2025 About the positions One or two Postdoctoral Research Fellowships are available at the Mechanics Division, Department of Mathematics at the University of Oslo. Starting date as soon
Read about the advertisement and apply for the job here: PhD Research Fellow in Experimental Fluid Mechanics: Tunable hairy surfaces for droplet flow control (280936) | University of Oslo Deadline: 9 June 2025 About the position A PhD Research Fellowship is available at the Department of Mathematics in the research group of Prof. Andreas Carlson
Read the advertisement and apply for the position here: PhD Research Fellow in experimental Fluid Mechanics (280935) | University of Oslo Deadline: 9 June 2025 About the position A PhD Research Fellowship is available at the Department of Mathematics in the research group of Prof. Andreas Carlson at the University of Oslo (UiO). No one
