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Received Norwegian Research Councils Award for Young Outstanding Researchers
March 21, 20221st of March I recieved the prize by the Norwegian Research Councils Award for Young Outstanding Researchers within Natural Sciences on my research on surfaces. The research would not have been possible without my excellent colleagues in Norway and in Spain and good collaboration. ...

Visiting the group of Prof. Müller at Imperial College London
March 21, 2022Since January, I have been visiting the group of Prof. Erich Müller together with my PhD-student Ailo Aasen and my SINTEF colleague Morten Hammer. We will stay here until May, and have been very well taken care of so far. We are all enjoying the “London-experience” meanwhile ...

New article in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
March 21, 2022Our paper entitled: Reducing the exergy destruction in the cryogenic heat exchangers of hydrogen liquefaction processes has been published in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. A present key barrier for implementing large-scale hydrogen liquefaction plants is their high power consumption. The cryogenic heat ...

New article in Phys. Rev. E on nonlocal entropic contributions to interfacial properties
March 21, 2022Our paper entitled: Temperature anisotropy at equilibrium reveals nonlocal entropic contributions to interfacial properties has been accepted for publication in Physical Review E. In the work, we show that the configurational part of the temperature has different contributions from the parallel and perpendicular directions ...

Ailo Aasen receives poster award
March 21, 2022PhD candidate Ailo Aasen was awarded the prize for best poster at the conference, Thermodynamics 2017, in Edinburgh, Scotland. This is impressive, as he started his PhD only eight months ago! In the poster, he presented some of our ongoing work to unravel the curvature ...

Received two international awards for PhD thesis
March 21, 2022My thesis entitled Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of planar and curved interfaces, has just been awarded with two prestigious international awards! The European Federation of Chemical Engineers (EFCE) awarded the thesis with the EFCE excellence prize in thermodynamics for 2017. The thesis was ...

Elisa Magnanelli successfully defended her PhD
March 21, 2022Elisa Magnanelli, whom I have served as a co-supervised for together with Prof. Signe Kjelstrup (main supervisor) and Eivind Johannessen (co-supervisor), successfully defended her PhD entitled “Understanding and Reducing the Entropy Production in Membrane Systems”. The purpose of her thesis work was ...

Center of Excellence granted on flow through porous media
March 21, 2022Our application for center of excellence, Porous Media Laboratory, was granted by the Norwegian Research Council!! The topic is fundamental knowledge on flow through porous media. Progress in the center will contribute to safer and more efficient extraction of oil and injection of ...

New article on challenges and future development of established equations of state
March 21, 2022Our paper entitled: Thermodynamic modeling with equations of state: present challenges with established methods has been accepted for publication in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. In the work, we review present challenges associated with established models, and give suggestions on how to overcome them ...
