InterPore News featuring the Focus Theme for InterPore2026

Sent on: 02-12-2025

Dear InterPore colleagues,

When working through today’s news items, I came across the IMP website (Pania Newell's posted jobs) and I noticed a mention of a podcast with the inspiring title ‘Permission to Pause’. It is about freeing up time to literally drive away from work for a full day and come to rest. Great advice! And only later, I realized we had advertised the start of the podcast series.

Obviously, I didn’t have time to finish the episode on taking a break because the remaining items in the Newsletter awaited my attention. Quite a few webinars, chapter announcements, and more jobs. And the theme for InterPore2026, which is becoming more urgent by the day.

All the best,

Matthijs de Winter
Editor-in-Chief
InterPore News

InterPore2026 proudly highlights Natural Porous Media for Green Housing as its focus theme, reflecting the strong commitment of Nantes and its academic partners to sustainable development.

This theme explores the thermal, fluidic, and mechanical behavior of bio- and geo-sourced porous materials used in constructing eco-friendly buildings and urban neighborhoods. Sessions will cover the characterization and modeling of these materials’ physico-chemical properties, studies on their aging over time at the scale of test buildings, and comprehensive life cycle analyses.

Join us to engage with cutting-edge research driving sustainable solutions for the future of green housing.

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Mark your calendars for abstract submission, registration deadlines, and the conference dates themselves. Early planning will help ensure you don’t miss out on important opportunities to present your research and connect with the porous media community!

Important dates

InterPore2026 will be in Nantes. This week's cultural highlight: The Passage Pommeraye

The Passage Pommeraye is a historic shopping arcade in the center of Nantes, named after its developer, Louis Pommeraye. It was inaugurated in 1843. Spanning three levels and connecting streets of differing heights with a monumental central staircase, its design is very elaborate and includes Renaissance-style sculptures. The passage, now a protected historical monument, is well known for both its commercial boutiques and its decorative details, making it a renowned architectural and cultural landmark.

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Prof. Rainer Helmig, from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, is the Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer of 2025. So far this year, he has presented 13 lectures in universities and institutions all over the world.

Prof. Helmig’s upcoming lecture tour will take place in September in the UK: Loughborough University on September 1st, University of Oxford on September 4th and Heriot-Watt University on October 5th.

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Prof. Lyesse Laloui, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, is the Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer of 2026.

As the winner of this year’s distinguished award, Prof. Lyesse Laloui will be giving one of his two lectures at selected institutions. Hosts may select one of two options:

  • Lecture 1: Tailoring Soil Properties through Bio-Geo-Chemical Engineering
  • Lecture 2: Carbon Dioxide Injection into Deep Aquifers: a Geomechanical Perspective

For detailed information about the lectures, please visit Prof. Laloui’s page.

If your university/institution is interested in hosting Prof. Laloui, please fill out the application form in our website by 31 December 2025.

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The Fourth Symposium of the InterPore Israel National Chapter will take place on 19 October 2025.

Abstract submission deadline is 10 September 2025.

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The Spanish Chapter will meet in Madrid on 19-20 November 2025 in the José Echegaray Room of the E.T.S.I. Caminos, C. y P., Technical University of Madrid. 

Registration opens on 20 September. 

Check the brochure(versión en castellano) or the VI Annual Meeting page for more information.

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The Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT Hyderabad) in association with the India InterPore Chapter successfully organized the National Symposium on Porous Media Research & the InterPore India Chapter kick-off meeting on 2 August 2025 at the Convention Centre, IIT Hyderabad. 

Read more about the event by clicking on the link below.

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Upcoming Academy Webinar on mathematical analysis and robust numerical methods for ion transport in deformable porous media by Ricardo Ruiz Baier. 

Date: 9 September 2025 at 14:00 CEST

Registration is now open.

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Sujit Datta, member of the InterPore Academy committee, an Invited Speaker at InterPore2022 in Abu Dhabi and the recipient of the InterPore Award for Porous Media Research 2022. Recently, he became one of the early-career professionals recognized through AIChE’s 35 Under 35 Awards for their leadership and impact in chemical engineering.

Congratulations!

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Thank you for your ongoing dedication to our community!

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Job Offers

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PhD Position, Multi-Scale Characterisation and Modelling of Clay - Water Interactions, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, TU Delft, Delft, the Netherlands Show Job Offer
PhD Position, Quantum Computing & Finite Element Methods for Solid Mechanics, The Integrated MultiPhysics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA Show Job Offer
PhD Position – Computational Solid Mechanics & Machine Learning, The Integrated MultiPhysics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA Show Job Offer
Two PhD positions on End-to-End Hydrological Modelling Using Machine Learning: Leveraging Transformers and Opportunistic Sensor Data for Hydrological Predictions. LS3/ IWS/ SC SimTech, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Show Job Offer

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