Dear InterPore friends,

Who is going to sing at InterPore2021? Please find out below…and join!

We have some changes in the organization with the regular coming and going of committee members and a
chairperson position. After 13 years, InterPore is prospering, and still plenty of potential is to
be reached worldwide as seen in a new InterPore Chapter that has been formed in Israel, formally
starting very soon.

Meanwhile, I am working hard to get my presentation ready for InterPore2021. It can already be
uploaded, so not a minute to waste!

All the best,
Matthijs de Winter
Editor-in-Chief
InterPore News

Career event on Thursday, 3 June 2021 at
15:45 CEST

Many students struggle with the decision of which career path to follow after the PhD. Should I
pursue an academic career or search for possibilities in industry or governmental agencies? What are
the pros (and cons) of each career path? What does the life-after-PhD feel like? To help shed light
onto these big questions, the Students Affairs
Committee has invited four established professionals to share their personal views and
experiences:

In this session, we will NOT hear about their latest research results but instead about their
different career paths, and the important choices they had to make along the way.

Social Media Task Force

As previously announced, Serveh Kamrava will be the new chair of the Social Media Task
Force. It also means that Dr. Hamed Aslannejad will be stepping down as chair.

Starting in early 2017, Hamed became the first to chair the task force. Under his leadership, this
important body has taken shape and played an important role in publicizing InterPore and its
activities on several social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn). The
Executive Committee is grateful to Hamed and all members of the task force for their most valuable
support of InterPore. We certainly hope that InterPore continues to benefit from Hamed’s experience,
enthusiasm, and ideas in reaching its goals and objectives.

New members on InterPore Council

On behalf of the council, I would like to thank the outgoing members of the InterPore
Council – Prof. Linda
Abriola, Prof. Tissa
Illangasekare, Dr. Steffen Berg and Dr. Marcel Moura – for their
time and commitment to support the InterPore society over the past years. InterPore is stronger and
better because of their dedicated involvement.

It is my pleasure to welcome the new members of the InterPore Council: Prof. Karsten Thompson, Dr. Masa
Prodanovic, Dr. Maja
Rücker, and Dr.
Mohammad Nooraiepour.

You can find the complete council here.

Sincerely yours,
Vahid Joekar-Niasar
Chair, InterPore Council

Israeli Chapter Kick-off meeting

The First
Symposium of the Israeli Chapter of InterPore will take place at Tel Aviv University on 1
July 2021.

The Symposium will focus on igniting and fostering collaboration among a broad network of researchers
of different disciplines coming from academia, research institutes, and industry. The annual
workshop will serve as an open forum, where participants will have the opportunity to present recent
research achievements, as well as research-related problems to enable multi-disciplinary
collaborations in porous media-related research across Israel.

Deadlines

Abstract submission: 1 June 2021

Registration: 15 June 2021

Please inform your colleagues about this event. We are looking forward to seeing you in Tel Aviv and
welcome you to stay for our evening social event.

Global Risks Scientists’ Perceptions survey

InterPore is member of the International Science
Council – ISC. As a member, we have received this call for nominations.

Global Risks Scientists’ Perceptions survey

We are requesting the help of all ISC Members in nominating experts to join a growing community of
leading scientists working on global risks by participating in the 2021 Future Earth – ISC Global
Risks Scientists’ Perceptions survey. All scientists with expertise in environmental, societal,
geopolitical, technological, or economic risks are invited to be nominated or self-nominated by
30 May 2021 via the online form.
All nominees will receive the Global Risks Scientists’ Perceptions survey in June 2021.

We are happy to invite you to our next Porous Media Tea Time Talks
(#PorousMediaTTT) session at 18.05.2021 at 15.00 CEST local
time on our YouTube
Channel.

The goal of the Porous Media TTT is to act as a complimentary platform to the already very successful
Geoscience and Geoenergy
webinars with the focus placed on young professionals.

We are very much looking forward to seeing you online!

The Porous Media TTT – team: Catherine Spurin (ICL), Kamalijt Singh (HW), Marcel Moura (PoreLab,
UiO), Tom Bultreys (UGhent), Mohammad Nooraiepour (UiO), Maja Ruecker (TU/e), Arjen Mascini
(UGhent), Nara Brandão (UFU), Javier Santos (UTexas).

Workshop: DVS and iGC SEA

19 May 2021, 10:30-12:30 CEST

Surface Measurement Systems is organizing a free
workshop on DVS and iGC SEA for characterization of construction/building materials as well as
related materials (such as polymers, clay, natural stone, wood, carbon fibre, graphene, etc).

For more information, please refer to their website.

The 16th China National
Conference on Porous Flow Mechanics

29 July to 1 August 2021
Technical University (Huludao Campus), Huludao, Liaoning,
China

Some meeting topics:

• New progress, new opportunities and new challenges in seepage mechanics
• Seepage mechanics in conventional and unconventional energy development
• Seepage mechanics of coal rock
• Seepage mechanics in geotechnical engineering & hydraulic engineering
• Environmental seepage mechanics
• Biological seepage mechanics
• Analysis of heat and mass transfer in porous media
• Multi-scale, multi-phase and multi-field seepage mechanics
• Experimental method and technique of seepage mechanics
• Computational seepage mechanics
• Other fields related to seepage mechanics

Registration is online or on-site. Audience: Experts, researchers and student representatives in the
field of seepage mechanics

Contact: Dr. Qiang Liu

Promote your Publication

InterPore Members, do you want to promote your publication to the community? If so, please submit
your 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.

• PhD
  position, Electrical Modelling of the Soil-Root System, University of Bonn &
  Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
• PhD
  position, Assessing the potential of Fe containing (geo)materials as filter-stable sorbent
  materials for removal of Contrasting Media Agents, University of Warwick, UK
• PhD
  position, Appraisal of the main environmental effects of Fe supplementation on Contrasting
  Media Agents dynamics in soil-water systems, University of Warwick, UK
• PhD
  position, Design of a system to intercept Contrasting Media Agents fluxes in and out of a
  drained region, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• PhD
  position, Analysis of the effect of Fe addition to sediments on the target geochemical
  processes, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• PhD
  position, Mechanistic studies on Contrasting Media Agents dynamics in natural and engineered
  porous media, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

If you have a job opening in your institute and would like to promote it internationally, please
send the description and weblink or PDF to newsletter@interpore.org, and we’ll be happy to
add it to the list.