Professor Natalya Kizilova from the Institute of Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics, Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, is visiting PoreLab Trondheim during 3 months starting 01.10.2018. She will be giving a talk about “Biological Networks: Principles of Design, Local and Global Optimization” on October the 3rd during our group
Text by Marco Sauermoser The 2nd PoreLab Junior Forum was held in Trondheim in the PoreLab facilities on the 20th and 21th of September, 2018. Again, the goal was to improve the connection between the two different locations of PoreLab, which is an important priority for us. It allows to get to know each other
The 2nd national Interpore workshop on porous media is organized in Oslo on November 9, 2018. Registration for the workshop is now open. The first part of the day is reserved for talks given by invited speakers. A poster session follows after the talks. Abstracts for the poster session can be sent here. When sending abstracts
Within PoreLab Center of Excellence, a post-doc position in physical chemistry is available at the Department of Chemistry. The appointment has duration of 2 years. The open post-doc position is available for the development of transport theories for two-phase flow in porous media. The project is related to a new cleaning process for water, where
Our Newly Published articles provide view of research, ideas, and discussion in the field of Porous Media. Electrolyte Melt Compositions for Low Temperature Molten Carbonate Thermocell Sathiyaraj Kandhasamy, Asbjørn Solheim, Signe Kjelstrup, and Geir Martin Haarberg Industrial processes for the production of metals and alloys by metallurgical and electrochemical methods generate a lot of waste
Jingya Zhang who is doing the 3rd year of her PhD at the College of Geosciences, China University of Petroleum in Beijing, joined PoreLab Trondheim for one year. She arrived on September the 1st, 2018 and will be leaving in August 2019. Her office is located in the hall building together with other PhD students.
PhD Antoine Léo Turquet from the “Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg”, University of Strasbourg, France, is visiting PoreLab in Trondheim from September the 3rd to the 10th, 2018. He is collaborating with Professors Eirik Flekkøy and Signe Kjelstrup. FacebookTwitterGoogle+PrintLinkedinemail
Professor María Barragán Garciá from the Department of Applied Physics at the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain, is visiting PoreLab in Trondheim from August the 27th until September the 3rd, 2018. She is collaborating with Professor Signe Kjelstrup on the Work Package 5 (Thermodynamic Driving Forces) and is the co-supervisor for the PhD candidate
A delegation of nine visiting professors from the Beijing Computational Research Science Center (CRSC) visited PoreLab in Trondheim between June the 18th and 20th. They were visiting as well our colleagues from the Center of Excellence QuSpin. A workshop opened for all was organised on June the 19th. Here is the agenda:
The official Norwegian Centre of Excellence plaque was presented to Centre Director Alex Hansen from Senior Adviser Liv Furuberg from The Research Council of Norway. The seminar was official opened by the State Secretary Rebekka Borsch from Kunnskapsdepartementet (Norge). Researchers, students, representatives from NTNU and others showed up to celebrate PoreLab . Program 10:00: Alex Hansen, PoreLab Director. 10.05:
May 14-17 most of PoreLab are going to New Orleans for the InterPore annual meeting. This is the biggest and most important conference for Porous Media science in the world. Postdoctoral fellow Marcel Moura will be organizing a career event there, he is the chair of their Student Affairs Committee, and professor Alex Hansen is
Norway’s Minister of Research and Higher Education, Iselin Nybø, is leading a huge delegation of university leaders and scientists on a visit to Beijing and Shanghai, to deepen Norwegian-Chinese research cooperation. The visit is being hosted by China’s Minister of Science and Technology, Wang Zhigang. The scale of the delegation is unprecedented – Nybø is being
The 1St PoreLab Junior Forum took place in the Physics Department, University of Oslo, in March 8th and 9th. The main goal of the forum was to bring together the community of PhDs, PostDocs and early career researchers of PoreLab into a single venue, with the objective of allowing them to better know each other
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (IBM) invites applicants for a three years PhD in a joint research project between the Geotechnical research group, the Road, Transport and Geomatics research group and the PoreLab Center of Excellence. The area of research is Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical modelling of soil behavior during freezing and thawing processes. The PhD
Wilhelmsen and his colleagues focus their research work on what occurs on and along surfaces, and how surficial properties can be exploited both in current and future technologies. This field will have major significance for the development of tomorrow’s energy systems. The results of the research carried out by Wilhelmsen and his colleagues will be
