Dr. Pooja Singh joined PoreLab on October 15, 2025. She is a postdoctoral fellow funded by PoreLab under WP1-Thermodynamics of flow in porous media, in collaboration between Professor Alex Hansen and Professor Erika Eiser. This is a 3-year contract. Pooja recently completed her PhD in Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur
Dr. Fufang Yang joined PoreLab at the Department of Chemistry, NTNU, on September 1st, 2025, as researcher funded through a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship from the European Commission. Dr. Yang earned his PhD from the Department of Energy and Power Engineering at Tsinghua University in China, where he also completed his Bachelor’s degree.
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
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
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
Yann Dumay joined PoreLab on January 2nd, 2025, as PhD candidate. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Science, specialising in Physics, from the University of South Brittany, France, in 2019. Subsequently, he completed a Master’s degree in Materials Science, focusing on composite materials, at the Engineering School of Nantes, France, in 2022. Post-graduation, Yann joined
Sigrid Ausnmo joined PoreLab on January 6th, 2025, as PhD candidate. Sigrid holds a master’s degree in Physics and Mathematics from NTNU, with a specialization in physics, more particularly in quantum solid state physics. Her master thesis was on quantum effects in superconducting multilayer structures. She joined SINTEF Energy Research in September 2023 and took a
Maud Viallet joined PoreLab in September 2024 as PhD candidate at the department of Physics, PoreLab, University of Oslo She introduces herself as follow: I am a PhD student in cotutelle with the University of Oslo and the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France). I work in Porelab on viscous flows in porous media and
Antoine Dop joined PoreLab as a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Physics, University of Oslo, in October 2024. His position is financed by PoreLab. Antoine introduces his research activities as follow: I study granular materials and pattern formation processes using a combination of numerical simulations and laboratory experiments. During my masters I started studying
Bjarte Matre joined PoreLab on December 9th, 2024, as PhD candidate. His position is financed by PoreLab. His supervisors are Professors Alex Hansen and Carl Fredrik Berg. Bjarte holds a master’s degree in physics from 2024, specializing in quantum physics, mathematics, and numerical computations. His master’s thesis, titled “Fingerprinting of Quantum Ground State Manifolds” focuses
Farid Aligolzadeh joined PoreLab on September 16th, 2024 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. His position is financed by the InterLab project which is an ERC starting grant for Professor Øivind Wilhelmsen Farid is interested in a wide range of topics within thermo-fluids science, i.e. fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and thermodynamics. He likes to combine numerical,
Jonas Bueie joined PoreLab on April 2nd, 2024, as PhD candidate. His PhD is financed by the InterLab ERC Starting Grant developed by Professor Øivind Wilhelmsen who is as well the supervisor for Jonas. Jonas holds a Master in Technology in Physics and Mathematics from NTNU from 2022. His specialization is in applied physics. Following
Andreas Hennig joined PoreLab on January 2nd, 2024, as PhD candidate. His position is financed by PoreLab under the WP4 (Nanoporous media and gels). His supervisor is Professor Erika Eiser, PI for the WP4, and his co-supervisor is Associate Professor Raffaela Cabriolu, associated member at PoreLab. Andreas holds a Master of science in applied physics
René Tammen joined PoreLab on February 1st, 2023, as PhD candidate. His position is financed by the project “Sustainable Stable Ground” funded by the Research Council of Norway and his supervisor is Professor Erika Eiser, PI for the WP4 at PoreLab on “Nanoporous media and gels” . The project “Sustainable Stable Ground” is an interdisciplinary
