Category Archives: New employee

Welcome to Salem Akarri, new PhD candidate at PoreLab Trondheim

By PoreLab4 April, 2019New employee

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

Welcome to Michael Rauter, new PhD candidate at PoreLab Trondheim!

By PoreLab1 February, 2019New employee

Michael joined the PoreLab team on February the 1st as PhD candidate. He holds a Master degree within Process Engineering with a focus on Chemical & Electrochemical engineering and Device & Plant engineering from the University of Stuttgart in Germany. He graduated in December 2018. The focus of his studies was on numerical methods/simulation

Cover story for Entropy

The paper from Mariá Barragán, Kim Kristiansen and Signe Kjelstrup entitled "Perspectives on Thermoelectric Energy Conversion in Ion-Exchange Membranes" was selected as the cover story for ENTROPY Volume 20. Read the paper here

Mechanisms of the Flying Chain Fountain

When a chain is released by one end from a container, it forms a striking arch extending well above the container. Watch the video of this curious phenomenon here and read more about the physics behind it here

50th Anniversary of the Nobel Prize to Lars Onsager

On Thursday 22 November, an exhibition on Lars Onsager opened at the Natural Science Library. It is now 50 years since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Plan S: På høy tid at dette skjer

Professor og leder for SFF ’en Porelab, Alex Hansen, gir Plan S sin fulle tilslutning. Forslaget om at all offentlig finansiert forskning skal publiseres i tidsskrifter med åpen tilgang er eneste riktige, slår han fast.

The Sound of Science