Category Archives: PoreLab Lecture Series

PoreLab lecture with Professor Einat Aharonov on the importance of seepage forces in soil-liquefaction

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Einat Aharonov, Professor at the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor Aharonov’s research group studies coupled physical and chemical processes that control deformation and evolution of rocks. Most of her research focuses on how relatively small-scale processes (on the pore, grain, or asperity scale) control

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PoreLab lecture with Prescelli Annan on October 2nd.

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Prescelli Annan, doctoral student at the Swiss Seismological Service (SED), ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Prescelli is using numerical modelling to cross-correlate datasets varying in scale from lab to field, in the context of CO2 sequestration. Her Ph.D. is part of the SMILE project (MultidiSciplinary and MultIscale approach for coupLed processes induced

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PoreLab lecture with Professor Ranjini Bandyopadhyay on September 11th

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Prof. Ranjini Bandyopadhyay from the Raman Research Institute (Bengaluru, India). When: Wednesday 11 September at 13:00 (Norway time). Where: The lecture will be streamed in the Kelvin room (PoreLab Oslo) and in the common room (PoreLab Trondheim). From anywhere else, you will be able to join via the following Zoom link:https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09 Title: Distinct morphologies

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PoreLab lecture with Professor Gloria Maria Buendia on September 4th

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Prof. Gloria Maria Buendia from the department of Physics at Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas in Venezuela When: Wednesday 4 September at 13:00 (Norway time). Where: The lecture will be in-person in the Kelvin room (PoreLab Oslo) and will be streamed in the common room (PoreLab Trondheim). From anywhere else, you will be able to join

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PoreLab lecture with Peter K. Kang on 5 June 2024

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Associate Prof. Dr. Peter K. Kang Peter is a geoscientist whose research focuses on the physics of flow and reactive transport in porous and fractured media. His research group combines theory, high-performance numerical simulations, machine learning, and visual laboratory experiments to understand how coupled processes control mixing and reactive

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PoreLab lectures with Prof. Dr. Sitangshu Bikas Santra and his PhD student Jnana Ranjan Das on June 6th

Welcome to the next PoreLab lectures! Who: Prof. Dr. Sitangshu Bikas Santra and his PhD student Jnana Ranjan Das from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India Their research interests include: Multi-disciplinary. Lattice animal, Percolation, Diffusion, Self-organizing Criticality, Networks, Dynamical Ising systems, Active matter and Biological systems When: Thursday June 6th at 13:00 CEST (Norway time). Where:  The lectures will

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PoreLab lecture with Prof. Dr. Joaquin  Jimenez-Martinez on May 29th

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Prof. Dr. Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez Prof. Jimenez-Martinez is the Research Scientist-Group Leader at Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. His research focuses on the study of transport, chemical reaction phenomena, and microbial

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PoreLab lecture with Associate Prof. Alexander Shapiro on May 15th, 2024

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Associate Prof. Alexander Shapiro from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Alexander has been at the forefront of the development of stochastic methods in the theory of deep bed filtration. His research has covered both theoretical and practical aspects of complex flows in porous media and their applications When: Wednesday

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PoreLab lecture with Assistant Professor  Benzhong (Robin) Zhao on April 17th

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Assistant Prof.  Benzhong (Robin) Zhao from McMaster University, Canada The expertise of Dr. Benzhong Zhao is within climate change mitigation, renewable energy, water security, energy storage, carbon storage, multiphase flow, porous media and electrochemistry When: Wednesday April 17th at 14:00 (Norway time). Where:  The lecture will be streamed in the Kelvin

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PoreLab Lecture with Dr. Joachim Mossige from RITMO-UiO on April 3rd, 2024

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Dr. Joachim Mossige, Postdoctoral Fellow – RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion (IMV), University of Oslo, Norway Joachim is an experimental fluid mechanician dedicated to everything that flows. He received his Ph.D. in microfluidics from the University of Oslo and was a postdoc at Stanford University

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PoreLab lecture with Dr Zhongzheng Wang from Queensland University of Technology on March 20th

Welcome to the next PoreLab lecture! Who: Dr Zhongzheng Wang from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Dr Zhongzheng Wang is currently a Lecturer in the School of Mechanical, Medical & Process Engineering, Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He completed the Cotutelle PhD Program from the University of Sydney and Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, after which he

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