InterPore News featuring: New committee members Industrial PhD Research Fellowship

Sent on: 30-10-2026

Dear InterPore colleagues,

As scientist, how much time do we actually spend on interactions with other people? I mean, discuss, analyze, criticize, suffer from, cope with, and enjoy interactions. I think a lot! There is a social scientist in all of us… It can be fun but also challenging, in particular to freshmen landing their first job, e.g. as a PhD student. It is a delicate balance between character building and looking after each other.

Today's edition features the new committee overseeing the applications for the Industrial PhD Research Fellowship. Shaping our future scientists!

All the best,

Matthijs de Winter
Editor-in-Chief
InterPore News

ps: Please notice the imminent deadlines for three Chapter meetings!
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Here you can find news and updates to the upcoming Annual Meeting in Rio de Janeiro.

 

Abstract submission is now open for InterPore2027! Share your latest research, connect with the international porous media community, and contribute to a diverse scientific program spanning a wide range of disciplines and applications.

Submission deadline: 11 January 2027

Explore the minisymposia and submit your abstract today!

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We are pleased to welcome Ryan Armstrong of UNSW Sydney, Australia, as an invited speaker at InterPore2027.

In his lecture, “Evolving Interfaces, Geometric Memory, and Non-equilibrium States in Multiphase Flow,” Armstrong will explore how the changing shapes and connectivity of fluids within porous materials influence flow, trapping, and transport.

His research offers a new perspective on multiphase flow, examining how the three-dimensional geometry of fluid interfaces can help explain hysteresis and improve predictive models. These insights are particularly relevant to subsurface applications such as CO₂ and hydrogen storage.

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Are you a student submitting an abstract for InterPore2027? Don't forget to indicate your interest in the Invited Student Paper Award during abstract submission!

The award recognizes outstanding student presentations at the InterPore Annual Meeting, with selected students invited to submit a paper based on their presented work to InterPore Journal, with publication fees waived.

Eligibility:

  • Must be a student at the time of abstract submission.
  • Must present original work at InterPore2027.

How to Apply:

Simply indicate your interest in the award when submitting your abstract for InterPore2027.

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InterPore2027 Minisymposium Spotlights

The InterPore2027 scientific program brings together a broad range of topics across porous media research. This week, we're highlighting three minisymposia covering energy and climate, advanced imaging, and subsurface modeling.

How can porous media research contribute to a low-carbon future? MS01 explores applications in carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), geothermal energy, hydrogen storage, and other technologies supporting the energy transition. Contributions spanning experiments, numerical modeling, machine learning, and upscaling are encouraged.

Closely aligned with the InterPore2027 focus theme, Imaging of Porous Materials, MS10 highlights advances in imaging technologies, image processing, and data analysis. Topics include X-ray tomography, MRI, electron microscopy, synchrotron and neutron imaging, and innovative approaches to visualizing porous structures and dynamic processes.

Have research to share? Explore these and the other InterPore2027 minisymposia and submit your abstract by 11 January 2027.

Explore the minisymposia and submit your abstract

Tijuca National Park: A Rainforest Inside the City Many InterPore 2027 attendees are nature lovers, but even for those who aren't, Rio de Janeiro offers a wonderful escape: an entire forest right inside the city. Tijuca National Park provides an extraordinary journey through scenic trails, waterfalls, wildlife, and breathtaking viewpoints. Designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve, the park is a preserved piece of the Atlantic Forest in the heart of Rio. You can make your trip to attend InterPore 2027 even more memorable by exploring Brazil's most visited national park. Ready, set... Rio!

Photo credit:  Anderson Camargo

We are pleased to welcome back Interface Fluidics as an exhibitor at InterPore2027! We appreciate their continued participation and look forward to having them join us in Rio!

Interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at InterPore2027? Our Sponsor & Exhibitor Prospectus is now available, outlining opportunities to showcase your products and services, increase your visibility, and connect with the international porous media community.

We also encourage our members to share the prospectus with their industry partners and professional networks to help us reach organizations that could benefit from participating.

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Here you can find news and updates to ongoings within the Society.

 

The InterPore - Kimberly-Clark Industrial PhD Research Fellowship is awarded to outstanding doctoral students with the goal of advancing the science and engineering of porous media while fostering long-term collaboration between academia and industry. 

Established by InterPore and Kimberly-Clark Corporation, this annual fellowship recognizes one exceptional PhD student, offering hands-on industrial research experience and global academic recognition

We would like to welcome the members of the new Committee:

  • Dwayne Jackson, Ph.D., Kimberly-Clark Corporation, USA
  • Richmond Cohen, Ph.D., Kimberly-Clark Corporation, USA
  • Dr. Seetha Narayanan, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India

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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. Coming up in November, he will present his lectures at TU Delft, the Netherlands, on 4 November, and at the 7th Annual Spain InterPore Meeting in Barcelona, Spain, on 17 November.

Meet the InterPore Community: National Chapters are dynamic, country-wide groups within InterPore that bring together researchers, professionals, and students working in porous media science and engineering. These chapters act as local hubs for scientific exchange, collaboration, and networking, while contributing to the global mission of InterPore.

 

The Spanish Chapter will meet in Barcelona on 17-18 November 2026 in E.T.S.I. Caminos, C. y P., Technical University of Catalunya for the next annual Spain InterPore Meeting.

Registration and abstract submission deadline: 31 October 2026

Register today and submit your abstract

The 7th InterPore BeNeLux Chapter Meeting will be organised jointly with the upcoming edition of the International Symposium on Wettability and Porous Media. The event takes place between 30 November 30th and 2 December in Amsterdam.

The first day is dedicated to the InterPore BeNeLux Chapter, but we encourage you strongly to register and attend all three days of this event, which has a lot of offer. Details and a list of invited speakers can be found via the link below.

Registration Deadline: 1 Nov 2026

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The 9th National Workshop in Porous Media will take place in Trondheim on 27 November 2026.

This meeting will host the first edition of the InterPore Norway Awards for Excellence in Porous Media Research, recognizing outstanding Master's and PhD research conducted in Norway.

Award Categories

Best Master’s Thesis Award: Recognizing an outstanding Master’s thesis in porous media research defended within the past two years (on or after 1 November 2024).

Best PhD Dissertation Award: Recognizing an outstanding PhD dissertation making a significant contribution to porous media research, defended within the past two years (on or after 1 November 2024).

More details can be found on the flyer.

Event website

Here you can find updates to the Academy's events promoting education, training, and research through a variety of activities, including courses, webinars, thematic workshops, and initiatives by the Young Academy.

 

Register for the next round of Pore 2-8.1, “Multiscale modeling and simulation of fractured porous rocks: from CO2 and H2 storage to geothermal energy production” with Hadi Hajibeygi, which will take place from 14-17 December 2026.

Hadi Hajibeygi is a professor of Geo-Energy Solid and Fluid Mechanics at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. This short course is offered to enable the attendees to get an in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with multiscale simulation of multiphase flow in fractured reservoirs.

Please note that due to illness, the Pore 2-2 course scheduled for November has been postponed. We are working to reschedule and will share additional details as soon as they are available.

Many thanks to all who joined last week’s webinar with Wen Song (UT Austin, USA) on the topic of “Ash Gel-O: The Origin, Formation, and Avoidance of Gels during REEs Extraction from Coal Fly Ash.”

For those who missed out, you can view a recording of the session via the button below.

For more details and to learn about other upcoming events, please visit our InterPore Academy page.

Webinar Recording

News, events and activities from all around the porous media community

 

21–25 June 2027 | Udine, Italy | On-site and online participation

Organized by the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM), the program covers multiphase flow in porous media, convective mixing and transport, multiscale modelling, reactive processes, coupled geomechanics, and advanced numerical simulation. Lectures are complemented by hands-on FluidFlower experiments and a visit to a borehole geophysics test site.

Early-bird registration and CISM grant application deadline: 21 April 2027

Details, program, and registration

Capillary-pressure-driven liquid movement in porous media, commonly known as wicking, plays a critical role in many applications. This brand new book, edited by Krishna M. Pillai, Ryan (Reza) Masoodi, and Abul Borkot Md Rafiqul Hasan, CRC Press, 2026, brings together leading experts to provide a description of evolution in latest physics and some representative case studies in this important field. The book offers valuable insights for researchers, graduate students, and engineers working in fields involving porous media.

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InterPore Members can promote their publications to the community via the InterPore InJournals section of the Newsletter. If you wish to do so, please submit your publication highlight to newsletter@InterPore.org. Clearly indicate which of the authors is an InterPore member (or the institute with an Institutional Membership). Note that we will not review the entries nor does InterPore endorse the published work. Furthermore, we publish on a “submitted first, published first” basis. The highlighted publication should be no older than 6 months (available online).
The highlight should be short (max. 100 words) and contain an illustration. Please note that we offer this opportunity exclusively to InterPore members. If you would like to become a member, please have a look here.

 

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