About the job We have a vacancy for a PhD position in Soft Matter Physics at PoreLab, Department of Physics, NTNU. The appointments has a duration of 3 years. The PhD student should start no later than December 2023. The position is organized at the Department of Physics in close collaboration with the Center of Excellence
Job description Position as PhD Research Fellow in Porous Media Physics is available at the Centre of excellence (SFF) PoreLab at the Njord Centre/the Department of Physics. No one can be appointed for more than one PhD Research Fellowship period at the University of Oslo. Starting date as soon as possible. The fellowship period is 3 years.
Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Professor Eirik G. Flekkøy, PoreLab UiO, Njord center, Department of Physics, University of Oslo When: Wednesday 25 October at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: Kelvin room (PoreLab Oslo), the lecture will be streamed live to the common room (PoreLab Trondheim). From anywhere else, you will be able to participate via the following Zoom
The article from Professor Renaud Toussaint and coworkers (Shahar Ben-Zeev, Liran Goren, Renaud Toussaint & Einat Aharonov) has been accepted in Nature Communications. Congratulations! Read the paper here: Drainage explains soil liquefaction beyond the earthquake near-field | Nature Communications A popular science article was published on this article in SCIENMAG here: New insights into soil liquefaction during earthquakes research
InterPore Norway 2023 will be held in Oslo on the 9th of November. The workshop will be hosted by PoreLab and the University of Oslo and will take place in the Oslo Science Park (Forskningsparken) Conference Centre at the Faros Room. There are no registration fees but we have a limited capacity at the venue.
Prof. Wilhelmsen, PI of Research Themes 5 and 8 in PoreLab, has just received an ERC Starting Grant for the research project InterLab: “Unravelling the fundamentals of transport across the vapor-liquid interface”. Congratulations! In the project, Wilhelmsen and his group will bring new understanding and methods to predict transport of heat and mass across vapor-liquid
Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Prof. Miguel Rubi from the Department of Fundamental Physics at the University of Barcelona, Spain When: Friday 13 October at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: on zoom https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of active particles self-assembly Abstract: We calculate the energetic cost of the formation of active particle structures. Using an approach that couples the particle dynamics
Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Dr. Olivier Vincent, Permanent Research Scientist at CNRS, Institut Lumière Matière, Lyon, France When: Wednesday 11 October at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: on zoom https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Water and solutions in nanoporous media: capillarity, osmosis and phase change Abstract: I will discuss a series of experiments that illustrate the rich physics of phase transitions and
The paper from Kim R. Kristiansen, Øivind Wilhelmsen and Signe Kjelstrup was accepted and published under “Desalination” (Volume 567, 1 December 2023, 116927), Congratulations! Read the paper from Kim here: A systematic non-equilibrium thermodynamics approach for assessing transport mechanisms in membrane distillation – ScienceDirect Tittle: A systematic non-equilibrium thermodynamics approach for assessing transport mechanisms in
Welcome to the next lecture in the PoreLab Lecture Series for the semester! Who: Prof. Bjørnar Sandnes from Swansea University, UK When: Wednesday 27 September at 13:00 (Oslo time) Where: on zoom https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Viscously stable frictional fingers Abstract: An invading meniscus between two fluids in a Hele-Shaw cell may bulldoze loose granular material into local compaction fronts. The flow becomes
Congratulations to Reza Haghani, Hamidreza Erfani, James E. McClure and Carl Fredrik Berg! Their article on “A note on the summation relation in phase-field equations” has been selected as featured article in Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 9 Congratulations! DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0164445 Abstract: In this paper, we investigate phase-field interface capturing equations for two-fluid systems
It is with great enthusiasm that the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) unveils the two chosen Young CAS Principal Investigators (PIs) for the upcoming two-year term: Professor Francesca Refsum Jensenius from the University of Oslo, who offers a penetrating analysis of the democratic processes in India, and Researcher Gaute Linga from The Njord Centre, University
The International Society for Porous Media (InterPore) has recently wrapped up the 15th Annual Meeting, in Edinburgh, Scotland, with great success! The 16th Annual InterPore Meeting, InterPore2024, will be held in Qingdao, China, on May 13-16, 2024. Link of the conference website: www.interpore.org/2024 Satellite Short Course Proposal Form: https://forms.gle/vrLNZEU279VU2JKb9 InterPore has launched its own journal –
The book “Nanothermodynamics: Theory and Applications” from Dick Bedeaux, Signe Kjelstrup and Sondre Schnell, is available on Amazon. Congratulations to the authors! Click here: This book grew out of an idea to study properties of small subsystems of a large reservoir. Observations were at the time not explainable with standard thermodynamics. But the theory of
