PoreLab Lecture Series
Do you wish to receive the invitations to the PoreLab lectures? Contact Marie-Laure Olivier here: Marie-Laure.Olivier@ntnu.no
Reserve the day for Vegard’s thesis defense on 6 November 2026!
Doctoral Candidate Vegard Gjeldvik Jervell at the Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Science will hold a trial lecture and defend his doctoral thesis for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD). The degree is administered by the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Thesis title From macro to micro and back again: A journey in
Reserve the day for Tage’s thesis defense on 3 November 2026
Doctoral Candidate Tage Winther Maltby at the Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Science will hold a trial lecture and defend his doctoral thesis for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD). The degree is administered by the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Thesis title Incorporating Intermolecular Information in the Modeling of Solid–Fluid Equilibria Trial lecture
PoreLab lecture with dr. Lifei Yan on Pore-scale Investigation of CO2 Hydrate Kinetics
Who: Dr. Lifei Yan. Dr. Yan’s work focuses on pore-scale processes related to CO2 storage and hydrate formation and is also a recipient of this year’s InterPore Award for Young Researchers. In this lecture, he will present experimental investigations of CO2 hydrate formation and dissociation in microfluidic pore networks, with particular attention to pore geometry, pressure
Welcome to Per Ivar!
Per Ivar Einejord Friborg joined PoreLab at the department of Physics, NTNU in Trondheim, on September 15th, 2026, as a PhD candidate for 3 years. Per Ivar holds a master in Chemical Processes Technology from NTNU. His position is financed by DYNCAT, a FRIPRO project financed by the Research Council of Norway (see PoreLab annual
Welcome to Pranay!
Dr. Pranay Shrestha joined PoreLab at the University of Oslo on September 1st, 2026, as a postdoctoral researcher for 2 years. His position is financed by the HORIZON-Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) program 2024 for Postdoctoral Fellowships. His project is titled: EnergyLeap – Leveraging wettability in computational design tools for porous materials Pranay earned his PhD
Congratulations to Tomislav!
On 10 September, Tomislav Vuković successfully defended his PhD thesis, Systematic Testing of the Streaming Potential Method for Wettability Characterization in Porous Media, at the Department of Geosciences, NTNU. His research investigated whether electrical signals generated when fluids flow through porous materials can be used to measure wettability, an important property controlling how fluids move
Coupling Residual Entropy Scaling to Revised Enskog Theory (REST)
The article by Vegard Jervell and Øivind Wilhelmsen on coupling residual entropy scaling to revised Enskog theory (REST) was selected as Editor’s Pick in The Journal of Chemical Physics. The article is titled: Coupling residual entropy scaling and revised Enskog theory (REST): A predictive framework for multicomponent transport properties from dilute gas to dense liquid
Proposed Master Project at Lab. FAST, Université Paris Saclay, France
Two-phase flow of a yield-stress fluid in a porous medium Contact: Laurent Talon (laurent.talon@universite-paris-saclay.fr), Alex Hansen (alex.hansen@ntnu.no) Context: Complex fluid flows play a key role in many industrial processes. Among non-Newtonian rheological behaviors, we focus here on yield-stress fluids, which only flow when the applied stress exceeds a critical value. Below this threshold, the material
Read more about what can happen when a crowd becomes extremely dense ? (Article in Norwegian)
Large crowds at events such as music festivals may appear chaotic, but researchers have shown that they often follow predictable patterns. Photo: Ton of rocks In an article from forskning.no published on 15 August 2026, here, physicist Eirik G. Flekkøy, PI at PoreLab, and anthropologist Tone Sommerfelt combine their expertise to explain how and why
Reserve the day for Hristina’s thesis defense on 31 August 2026!
Doctoral Candidate Hristina Dragovic at the Department of Energy and Process Engineering will hold a trial lecture and defend her doctoral thesis for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD). The degree is administered by the Faculty of Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Thesis title Experimental investigation of the transport of water
Read about how dynamic multiphase flow triggers chaotic mixing in porous media in the last PNAS article from Gaute Linga et al.
Open the article here: Dynamic multiphase flow triggers chaotic mixing in porous media | PNAS Authors: Gaute Linga, Kevin Pierce, Marcel Moura, Joachim Mathiesen, François Renard and Tanguy Le Borgne Significance Chemical and biological processes in soils, rocks, and industrial porous media are often controlled by the mixing of chemicals by fluid flow. When a single fluid phase carries dissolved chemicals through a porous medium, the
PoreLab lecture with Isha Savani on Self Organizing Maps as Method to Identify Patterns in the Sky
Who: Dr. Isha Savani Affiliation: Isha Savani is a Research Associate at the Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS) in Trieste, Italy. She is currently based in Oslo, collaborating with the environmental institute NILU and the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. Her research lies at the intersection of water law and atmospheric
FALL 2026/2027 COURSE: “EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES IN POROUS AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS” (FYS 4420/FYS9420) AT University of Oslo (UIO)
PoreLab’s course, “Experimental techniques in porous and complex systems,” is running this Fall semester as scheduled. This two-tiered course is open to both Master’s and Ph.D. students, using the following course codes: While course workload—including lectures and lab exercises—is split between PoreLab Oslo and PoreLab Trondheim, the majority of the practical work will take place
Welcome to Zhengwei!
Zhengwei Cheng joined PoreLab on January 19, 2026, as a PhD candidate on a three-year contract. He is the second PhD student to be recruited under Alex Hansen’s ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Grant project, AGIPORE – A Statistical Mechanics Framework for Immiscible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media.The ERC Advanced Grant is a prestigious funding scheme
Open PhD position in Computational Porous Media Physics
Deadline: 21 June 2026 Employer: NTNU, Trondheim, Norway See advertisement and apply here: PhD Candidate in Computational Porous Media Physics (302781) | NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology About the position Are you motivated to take a step towards a doctorate and open exciting career opportunities? As a PhD Candidate with us, you will