Alex was invited to NRK radio for youth on June 19th after his talk a the NTNU Festival “the Big Challenge”. Listen him here: : https://radio.nrk.no/serie/norske-tilstander/MYNN05109819#t=29m19s – click here «NTNU-forsker lærer oss noe nytt». (in Norwegian)
Alex speaks about Open Science at Frontiers. Watch him here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkScXGTOOOM&t=29s The Frontiers Forum brings together 400+ top global scientists and other thought leaders. It provides a valuable opportunity for the Frontiers community to see and discuss the latest in Open Science – and the Science Unlimited event showcases inspiring developments powering our world of
The PoreLab course 1 on ” Theory and simulation of flows in complex media ” will be organized during the fall semester 2019. The courses are held in Oslo at the PoreLab video communication room in the Physics Building, University of Oslo, with a video connection in Trondheim from our meeting room at our PoreLab
Alex, Signe and Dick were plenary speakers at the XXVI Sitges conference on Statistical Mechanics this year. Dick and Signe hold a presentation on “Hill’s Nano-thermodynamics Reproduces Gibbs’ Thermodynamics for Curved Surfaces” and Alex’ presentation was about “A Statistical Mechanics for Flow in Porous Media“.
Professor Majid Hassanizadeh, Managing Director at InterPore and Professor of Hydrogeology at Utrecht University, is coming to PoreLab Trondheim on June 18th. He will give a total of 14 hours course speaking about “Fundamentals of multiphase flow in porous media – From the molecular scale to the REV scale – Averaging-thermodynamic approach for development of
3 positions are now opened at PoreLab – Oslo PhD in experimental porous media physics Deadline: 28 May 2019 Researcher in Porous Media Physics Deadline: 30 May 2019 Researcher position in Steady State Porous Media Flow Deadline: 30 May 2019
On Tuesday 30th April Xin Wang, Director of Pore-scale Imaging Lab, Qingdao City, China, visited PoreLab Trondheim. The purpose of the visit was to probe for possible collaborations with our laboratory. Both Wang and representatives from PoreLab had presentations of work, and Wang had a laboratory tour of our reservoir lab, the SINTEF reservoir lab
Professor Eirik Grude Flekkøy was invited on April 23rd to participate to the famous Norwegian TV program, “Brille”, on TV Norge. “Brille” is a studio-based quiz program combining humor and science and presented by Harald Eia. You can watch the program under Dplay here: https://www.dplay.no/programmer/brille Eirik is interviewed during the last part of the program (scroll
Olav Galteland, Dick Bedeaux, Signe Kjelstrup, Bjørn Hafskjold and Alex Hansen explain how the activities at PoreLab could help with the prediction of mudslides. Read the article (in Norwegian) here
We are very pleased to announce that NTNU, through PoreLab and the Department of Structural Engineering, was approved as Partner in ERICA by the EU project officer. ERICA is an MSCA ITN (MSCA-ITN-2017 – Innovative Training Networks) project funded under the programme H2020-EU.1.3.1. – Fostering new skills by means of excellent initial training of researchers. ERICA is
Salem Saaed Akarri joined PoreLab Trondheim on April 1st, 2019, as PhD candidate. His PhD is related to WP6 (Microfluidics and field studies) under the Geoscience and Petroleum department of NTNU. Salem has a master’s degree in Reservoir Engineering and Petrophysics from NTNU, 2018, and a Bachelor of science from King Fahd University of Petroleum
The 3rd edition of the PoreLab Junior Forum took place in the Physics Department at the University of Oslo on March 21st, 2019. Agenda is available here: Program_JF3. The day started at 12 with the lunch, followed by a social event and ended with a dinner. After the scientific part of the forum was completed, the juniors
Giulio Fossati, Master student in Nuclear Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italia) joined us at PoreLab Trondheim today, March 19, and for 6 months. Giulio did his bachelor in Energy Engineering in 2017 and is now concluding his Master in Nuclear System Physic. He is coming to PoreLab to do his master thesis together with
On March the 14th and 15th, 2019, a delegation from the Engineering Thermodynamics group from the University of Delft, the Netherlands, visited PoreLab Trondheim The purpose of the visit was to explore a new definition of the pressure of porous media proposed by Galteland et al., in a new type of porous media, namely zeolites.
Diego Kingston, PhD candidate, from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, will spend 2 months with us at PoreLab Trondheim. He arrived today on March the 14th, 2019. Diego has a master in chemical engineering from the University of Buenos Aires from 2012. He started a PhD in June 2014 on the following subject: Entropy
