PoreLab
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PoreLab is a Norwegian Center of Excellence (CoE) created in 2017 and situated at NTNU in Trondheim, and the University of Oslo (UiO). It focuses on the physics of porous media using experimental, theoretical and computational methods.
Welcome to Anders! Anders Daltveit Melve joined PoreLab on August 25, 2025, as a PhD candidate. He is recruited under Alex Hansen’s ERC Advanced Grant project, AGIPORE – A Statistical Mechanics Framework for Immiscible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media. Read here: porelab.no/2025/11/20/w...
November 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Welcome to Anders! Anders Daltveit Melve joined PoreLab on August 25, 2025, as a PhD candidate. He is recruited under Alex Hansen’s ERC Advanced Grant project, AGIPORE – A Statistical Mechanics Framework for Immiscible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media. Read here: porelab.no/2025/11/20/w...
PoreLab lecture with Professor Hyundon Shin from Inha University in South Korea on Carbon Net-zero and Energy Transition Technology, on November 17, 2025 at 10:00 at NTNU (room 162, PTS, Valgrinda). More info here: porelab.no/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
PoreLab lecture with Professor Hyundon Shin from Inha University in South Korea on Carbon Net-zero and Energy Transition Technology, on November 17, 2025 at 10:00 at NTNU (room 162, PTS, Valgrinda). More info here: porelab.no/2025/11/10/p...
Welcome to Pooja! Dr. Pooja Singh joined PoreLab on October 15, 2025. She is a postdoctoral fellow funded by PoreLab. Her research will focus on the complex dynamics of immiscible fluid flow in porous media, aiming to experimentally validate theoretical frameworks. Read: porelab.no/2025/11/09/w...
November 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Welcome to Pooja! Dr. Pooja Singh joined PoreLab on October 15, 2025. She is a postdoctoral fellow funded by PoreLab. Her research will focus on the complex dynamics of immiscible fluid flow in porous media, aiming to experimentally validate theoretical frameworks. Read: porelab.no/2025/11/09/w...
“From Interface Dynamics to Darcy Scale Description of Multiphase Flow in Porous Media“, an invited submission to a special issue in Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, authored by Berg, Armstrong, Rücker, Hansen, Kjelstrup and Bedeaux was just released here: eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
October 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“From Interface Dynamics to Darcy Scale Description of Multiphase Flow in Porous Media“, an invited submission to a special issue in Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, authored by Berg, Armstrong, Rücker, Hansen, Kjelstrup and Bedeaux was just released here: eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
Reserve the day for Fazel's thesis defense on June 10th, 2025. Where: H1, Main building, NTNU Gløshaugen, Trondheim, Norway. Title: Neutron and X-ray microscopy of water dynamics, liquefaction and ice formation in porous media. All information here: porelab.no/2025/05/30/d...
May 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Reserve the day for Fazel's thesis defense on June 10th, 2025. Where: H1, Main building, NTNU Gløshaugen, Trondheim, Norway. Title: Neutron and X-ray microscopy of water dynamics, liquefaction and ice formation in porous media. All information here: porelab.no/2025/05/30/d...
Dr, Steffen Berg, PoreLab Scientific Advisory Board member, has been awarded the prestigious Darcy Award from the Society of Core Analysts, SCA (The Society of Core Analysts). Congratulations! More info here: porelab.no/2025/05/12/c...
May 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Dr, Steffen Berg, PoreLab Scientific Advisory Board member, has been awarded the prestigious Darcy Award from the Society of Core Analysts, SCA (The Society of Core Analysts). Congratulations! More info here: porelab.no/2025/05/12/c...
PoreLab lecture with Dr. Harold Auradou, head of the FAST laboratory at Université Paris-Saclay and CNRS researcher, on "Bacterial Suspension Flow in Porous Media". More info here: porelab.no/2025/05/12/p...
May 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
PoreLab lecture with Dr. Harold Auradou, head of the FAST laboratory at Université Paris-Saclay and CNRS researcher, on "Bacterial Suspension Flow in Porous Media". More info here: porelab.no/2025/05/12/p...
Reserve the days for Jennifer Ruth Sheehan's thesis defense! When: 22 May (trial lecture) and 23 May (Thesis defense). Title: Decay Behaviour, State Transitions and Escape Rates in Simple Models for Complex Systems. More info here: porelab.no/2025/05/08/d...
May 8, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Reserve the days for Jennifer Ruth Sheehan's thesis defense! When: 22 May (trial lecture) and 23 May (Thesis defense). Title: Decay Behaviour, State Transitions and Escape Rates in Simple Models for Complex Systems. More info here: porelab.no/2025/05/08/d...
The 3rd call for the EXCITE transnational access is now open. The European EXCITE Network provides academic and industrial users from all over the globe with free-of-charge Transnational Access (TNA) to state-of-the-art imaging facilities. More info here: porelab.no/2025/05/06/t...
May 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The 3rd call for the EXCITE transnational access is now open. The European EXCITE Network provides academic and industrial users from all over the globe with free-of-charge Transnational Access (TNA) to state-of-the-art imaging facilities. More info here: porelab.no/2025/05/06/t...
Welcome to Yann! Yann Dumay joined PoreLab on January 2nd, 2025, as PhD candidate. His doctoral research is funded by the EU funded FLUXIONIC project — Controlled Transport of Water and Ions in Nanoconfinement — under the HORIZON-MSCA-DN-2022 programme. More info here: porelab.no/2025/05/06/w...
May 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Welcome to Yann! Yann Dumay joined PoreLab on January 2nd, 2025, as PhD candidate. His doctoral research is funded by the EU funded FLUXIONIC project — Controlled Transport of Water and Ions in Nanoconfinement — under the HORIZON-MSCA-DN-2022 programme. More info here: porelab.no/2025/05/06/w...
Congratulations to Raffaela Cabriolu and her partners from SINTEF for her new FRIPRO project: DYNCAT, acronym for "Multiscale dynamics of the semi-catalytic Rochow-Müller process". More info here: porelab.no/2025/04/24/c...
April 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Congratulations to Raffaela Cabriolu and her partners from SINTEF for her new FRIPRO project: DYNCAT, acronym for "Multiscale dynamics of the semi-catalytic Rochow-Müller process". More info here: porelab.no/2025/04/24/c...
PoreLab lecture with Professor Panos Papanastasiou on the potential of repurposing depleting natural gas reservoirs for green hydrogen storage on April 24th, at 13:15. More info here: porelab.no/2025/04/22/p...
April 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
PoreLab lecture with Professor Panos Papanastasiou on the potential of repurposing depleting natural gas reservoirs for green hydrogen storage on April 24th, at 13:15. More info here: porelab.no/2025/04/22/p...
PoreLab lecture with Nathan Abitbol on Flow of a yield-stress fluid in a percolation network on April 23rd at 13:00 CET. More info here: porelab.no/2025/04/16/p...
April 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
PoreLab lecture with Nathan Abitbol on Flow of a yield-stress fluid in a percolation network on April 23rd at 13:00 CET. More info here: porelab.no/2025/04/16/p...
PoreLab på Nysgjerrige Norge (in Norwegian)! Kristopher Schau besøker PoreLab og møter Alex Hansen, Eirik G. Flekkøy og Marcel Moura. Sammen diskuterer de hvorfor porøse medier er overalt rundt oss. Dette er en serie fra NFR.
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April 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
PoreLab på Nysgjerrige Norge (in Norwegian)! Kristopher Schau besøker PoreLab og møter Alex Hansen, Eirik G. Flekkøy og Marcel Moura. Sammen diskuterer de hvorfor porøse medier er overalt rundt oss. Dette er en serie fra NFR.
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Reserve the day for Håkon Pedersen's thesis defense! When: 25 April. Title: Geometry of the Co-Moving Velocity in Immiscible and Incompressible Two-Phase Porous Media Flow. More info here: porelab.no/2025/04/08/d...
April 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Reserve the day for Håkon Pedersen's thesis defense! When: 25 April. Title: Geometry of the Co-Moving Velocity in Immiscible and Incompressible Two-Phase Porous Media Flow. More info here: porelab.no/2025/04/08/d...
This year's annual meeting of the Norwegian Chapter of InterPore will be held in Bergen on May 13-14, 2025. This two-day event, organized with the VISTA-funded Center for Modeling of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics (UiB), will serve as both the center's final conference and our chapter's annual meeting
April 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This year's annual meeting of the Norwegian Chapter of InterPore will be held in Bergen on May 13-14, 2025. This two-day event, organized with the VISTA-funded Center for Modeling of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics (UiB), will serve as both the center's final conference and our chapter's annual meeting
Welcome to Sigrid! Sigrid Ausnmo joined PoreLab on January 6th, 2025, as PhD candidate. Her PhD project is financed by the SafeAm project. It is aimed at deepening our understanding and improving our ability to model the thermodynamics relevant for offshore ammonia leakage scenarios.
March 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Welcome to Sigrid! Sigrid Ausnmo joined PoreLab on January 6th, 2025, as PhD candidate. Her PhD project is financed by the SafeAm project. It is aimed at deepening our understanding and improving our ability to model the thermodynamics relevant for offshore ammonia leakage scenarios.
Welcome to Bjarte! 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. His project will focus on deriving large scale behavior from pore scale physics.
March 20, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Welcome to Bjarte! 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. His project will focus on deriving large scale behavior from pore scale physics.
Congratulations to Caroline Einen! She defended her thesis entitled “Ultrasound-mediated delivery and transport of nanomedicines through the tumor extracellular matrix – effects and possible mechanisms” with success on February 28th, 2025
March 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Congratulations to Caroline Einen! She defended her thesis entitled “Ultrasound-mediated delivery and transport of nanomedicines through the tumor extracellular matrix – effects and possible mechanisms” with success on February 28th, 2025
The last publication from Alex Hansen and Santanu Sinha entitled “Thermodynamics-like formalism for immiscible and incompressible tow-phase flow in porous media” was selected as cover for the journal Entropy in February 2025. Read it here: www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27...
February 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The last publication from Alex Hansen and Santanu Sinha entitled “Thermodynamics-like formalism for immiscible and incompressible tow-phase flow in porous media” was selected as cover for the journal Entropy in February 2025. Read it here: www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27...
The annual report 2024 has arrived! It gives a glimpse of what PoreLab is all about. We present in some detail both the organization of the center and some of our scientific results of 2024. We explain where we are and where we are heading. You find it here: porelab.no/porelab-annu...
February 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The annual report 2024 has arrived! It gives a glimpse of what PoreLab is all about. We present in some detail both the organization of the center and some of our scientific results of 2024. We explain where we are and where we are heading. You find it here: porelab.no/porelab-annu...
Professors Alex Hansen and Saman Aryana will give a 12-hours Interpore course on “non-local statistical mechanics framework for immiscible flow in permeable media”. Course dates & time are March 4, 11, 18 and 25 from 8 to 10 (CET). All information and registration here: www.interpore.org/product/59
February 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Professors Alex Hansen and Saman Aryana will give a 12-hours Interpore course on “non-local statistical mechanics framework for immiscible flow in permeable media”. Course dates & time are March 4, 11, 18 and 25 from 8 to 10 (CET). All information and registration here: www.interpore.org/product/59
Friday Colloquium with Mogens Høgh Jensen , Professor of Complex Systems and Biophysics at the Niels Bohr Institute, U. of Copenhagen (Denmark) on Friday 14 February 2025 at 14:15 CET (Norway time) in R10 (Realfagbygget, NTNU). Title: Condensate Phase Transition and Oscillations in Cell Dynamics
February 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Friday Colloquium with Mogens Høgh Jensen , Professor of Complex Systems and Biophysics at the Niels Bohr Institute, U. of Copenhagen (Denmark) on Friday 14 February 2025 at 14:15 CET (Norway time) in R10 (Realfagbygget, NTNU). Title: Condensate Phase Transition and Oscillations in Cell Dynamics
Congratulations to Chiara Recalcati on receiving the 2025 InterPore-PoreLab Award for Young Researchers! Chiara is a postdoctoral researcher at MIPORE group. More information here: porelab.no/2025/02/10/2...
February 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Congratulations to Chiara Recalcati on receiving the 2025 InterPore-PoreLab Award for Young Researchers! Chiara is a postdoctoral researcher at MIPORE group. More information here: porelab.no/2025/02/10/2...
PoreLab lecture on February 6 at 13:00 with Professor Lesley James from Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, on comparing supercritical CO2-brine to N2-brine steady-state relative permeability curves for a description of multiphase flow in subsurface reservoirs targeting carbon storage
February 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
PoreLab lecture on February 6 at 13:00 with Professor Lesley James from Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, on comparing supercritical CO2-brine to N2-brine steady-state relative permeability curves for a description of multiphase flow in subsurface reservoirs targeting carbon storage