Wednesday, 5th of October, Michael Rauter successfully defended his PhD-thesis entitled: “Fluid Transport through Nanoporous Media in the Presence of Phase Transitions”. The opponents of the thesis were Prof. Rainer Helmig from the University of Stuttgart, and Prof. Amparo Galindo from Imperial College in London. Prof. Ingve Simonsen from NTNU was the thesis administrator. Michael had insightful discussions with the opponents and did an excellent job of defending his thesis.
The picture below is Michael and his mother after the PhD defense.
