InterPore2026 Bulletin (4)

Sent on: 28-11-2025

Submissions for InterPore2026 are now being accepted

We invite researchers, practictioners, and students to share their latest findings on the physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering of porous media.

👉 submit your abstract here

A reminder that the InterPore Foundation is offering conference grants for researchers from low- and middle-income countries and graduate students. Grants cover the registration fee, and selected recipients receive up to an additional 500 € for travel. Applicants must have an accepted presentation at InterPore2026 and hold current InterPore membership. Awards are based on academic achievement and abstract quality.

Apply online by 5 January! 

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One of InterPore2026’s invited speakers is Gabriel Tobie, Planetary Scientist at CNRS, who studies porous media on icy moons like Enceladus and Europa. His research shows how porosity drives heat and chemical exchanges between rocky interiors and subsurface oceans, providing energy and nutrients that may support habitability. Read more on his views on his interdisciplinary porous media research and visiting InterPore2026 in a short interview.

👉 Read the full interview here


Environmental Porous Media: Water, Agriculture, and Remediation is led by Amir A. Pahlavan and examines how water, contaminants, colloids, and microorganisms move through soils and subsurface environments, connecting pore-scale experiments and modeling with field-scale applications. The session highlights advances in understanding nutrient transport, contaminant remediation, biofilms, microplastics, rhizosphere processes, and strategies for guiding particles using phoretic or electrokinetic effects.

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Mathematical & Numerical Methods for Multiscale, Multiphysics Processes led by Nadja Ray focuses on cutting-edge methods for tackling nonlinear, multiscale, and multiphysics challenges. The minisymposium invites contributions on new mathematical formulations, multiscale and model-reduction techniques, innovative discretization and solver strategies, and data-integrated or AI-enhanced approaches.

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We are delighted to welcome Reactiv’IP back as an exhibitor at InterPore2026. Reactiv’IP specializes in advanced image processing and analysis solutions for porous media research, with tools widely used for segmentation, visualization, quantification, and 3D/4D data exploration.

Their continued participation provides attendees with the opportunity to explore cutting-edge software, discuss workflow challenges, and discover new features that support high-quality imaging and characterization across scales.

InterPore2026 will be in Nantes. This week's cultural highlight: Parc de Procé

Parc de Procé is a charming English-style landscape garden and one of the city’s most beloved parks. Parc de Procé is home to centuries-old trees, including Nantes’ oldest tulip tree, as well as cedars, sequoias, magnolias, and bald cypresses. From Parc de Procé, you can follow the green corridor along the Chézine River — on foot, by bike, or while jogging — upstream all the way to Parc de la Gournerie if you feel energetic!

Photo credit: adapted from M. Strikis / CC BY-SA 3.0

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