On Monday, December 16, 2019 Atta-ul Monem Ayaz will defend his thesis titled “Experimental and numerical investigation of cluster morphologies and dynamic during biphasic flow in porous media”. The thesis is a joint Phd thesis between the University of Strasbourg and the University of Oslo through a Cotutelle-agreement. The defense will take place at the
Bahador Najafiazar – Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, Faculty of Engineering, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway Defence of Thesis: December 13th Bahador Najafaziar has submitted the following academic thesis as a part of the doctoral work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Geoscience and Petroleum « HyGreGel: A new class of gel systems
Do you remember the YouTube video from Marcel and the relevant publications on the flying chain? Well, the flying chain strikes again! The group has produced a new theoretical model for explaining the phenomenon that included the effects of fluctuations along the chain length. This model, backed up by experiments and numerical simulations, successfully predicted
Voxaya’ mission is to create efficient and easy-to-use software that aim at making 3D imaging technologies straightforward to the greatest number of users, engineers and researchers. Dr. Olivier Rodriguez, Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer at Voxaya, is visiting NTNU on December 3rd and will give a presentation at 14:15, NTNU, Valgrinda, PTS1, room 162, on
Per Arne Slotte, Carl Fredrik Berg and Hamid Hosseinzade Khanamiri released their last publication in “Transport in Porous Media”. volume 130, no.3, December 2019. Read the article here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11242-019-01363-2 Abstract: Predicting Resistivity and Permeability of Porous Media Using Minkowski Functionals | SpringerLink Permeability and formation factor are important properties of a porous medium that only depend on
Reidun Cecilie Grønfur Aadland – Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, Faculty of Engineering, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway Defence of Thesis: December 5th Reidun Cecilie Grønfur Aadland has submitted the following academic thesis as a part of the doctoral work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Geoscience and Petroleum « Experimental Study
The EarthFlows research group at the department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, is hosting a short winter seminar for its network members on Friday, December 6th. Keynote speaker is Jérôme Weiss from the “Institut des Sciences de la Terre”, Grenoble, France. The seminar is open for all who are interested. See the full program under. Time
Professor Eirik Flekkøy from PoreLab University of Oslo explains the nature of Oumuamua under Popular Science. Read the article here: https://www.popsci.com/story/space/oumuamua-not-aliens-maybe-dust/ More articles about Oumuamua available here: Interesting Engineering: https://interestingengineering.com/scientists-rule-out-aliens-as-the-explanation-for-oumuamua Newshub: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/11/interstellar-visitor-oumuamua-just-gets-stranger-and-stranger.html And in French: https://eost.unistra.fr/actualites/actualite/article/et-maintenant-les-moutons-dans-lespace-de-poussiere/
Participants to the next InterPore2020 Conference, that will be held on May 25-28, 2019 in Qingdao, China, are invited to contribute an abstract to the mini symposium MS18 titled “Innovative methods for the characterization, monitoring, and in situ remediation of contaminated soils and aquifers“. See the session description below, also at https://events.interpore.org/event/23/page/154-minisymposia) Guidelines for abstract
Dr. Marcel Moura, Researcher at PoreLab Oslo, was a special guest for an hour-long radio program in Brazil on October 29th. He was interviewed in relation with recent oil spill along the Brazilian coasts. Brazil is going through a tremendous environmental disaster: more than 2000 km of its pristine beaches have been affected by a
Davood Dadrasajirlou, PhD candidate at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at NTNU, joined our PoreLab team at NTNU. Davood started his PhD in July 2019. He is working on thermodynamic of deformable soft clays. The topic of his project can be connected to WP2 (deformable porous media) and WP5 (thermodynamic driving forces). His
From left to right: Miguel Rubi, Alex Hansen, Signe Kjelstrup, Daan Frenkel, Erika Eiser,and Dick Bedeaux (picture: Marie-Laure Olivier) The distinguished scientist selected for the Onsager professorship this year is Daan Frenkel from the University of Cambridge. He received the Onsager silver medal on Nov.7, and gave the lecture “Entropy and complex assembly” in front
PhD candidate Xidong Wang PhD candidate Xidong Wang from Qingdao, China, will stay with us at PoreLab Trondheim during one year. He arrived on October 29th. Xidong started his PhD in 2016 at the China University of Petroleum and works on geological resources and engineering. His project’s title is: “Pore structure characterization by machine learning procedures”
Toulouse Biotechnology Institute is recruiting a Researcher on wide-scope eco-design for biotechnology and bioeconomy. This is a permanent position. One of our partners is recruiting a researcher permanent position. Find the job offer below: Job offer here >> TBI webpage here >>
Dr. Shaltiel Eloul Dr. Shaltiel Eloul, post-doc researcher at the department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, UK, is coming to PoreLab Trondhim for 1 week, from October 28th to November 5th. Shaltiel is working with Professor Daan Frenkel. He is invited to Trondheim as part of the Onsager Professor position for Daan. Welcome!
