Call for Exhibitors & Sponsors

The Exhibitor & Sponsor Prospectus for InterPore2026 is now available! It outlines the wide range of opportunities for companies and organizations to showcase their products, support the conference, and engage with the porous media community.

If you know companies or organizations that might be interested in exhibiting or sponsoring, please put us in touch. This is a great way to help connect industry partners with cutting-edge research and enhance the conference experience for all attendees.

Plenary Speaker: Maria Barrufet

We are excited to welcome Maria Barrufet (Texas A&M University) as an invited speaker at InterPore2026. Her lecture, “From Understanding to Practice: Confined Thermodynamics and Diffusion in Tight Hydrocarbon Reservoirs,” will explore how nanometer-scale pore physics—such as adsorption, diffusion, and oil swelling—affects oil recovery. Using experimental studies and predictive models, she demonstrates how confined thermodynamics can improve production forecasts and provide insights for CO₂ storage and hydrogen containment.

MS01 – Porous Media for a Green World: Energy & Climate

Lead Organizer: Sahar Bakhshian (Rice University, USA)
Porous media science has long been central to global energy production—but it also holds the key to a more sustainable future. As the world moves toward net-zero emissions, this minisymposium explores how natural and engineered porous media can support the transition to low-carbon energy systems.

Topics include carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), subsurface carbon mineralization, geothermal energy, and hydrogen storage, with an emphasis on advanced experimental, modeling, and machine learning approaches for complex subsurface processes.

Solicited Speaker: Branko Bijeljic (Imperial College London, UK)

MS14 – Advanced Flow Physics in Specialized Porous Systems: Non-linear Dynamics and Finite-Size Effects

Lead Organizer: Yves Méheust (Université de Rennes, France)

This minisymposium focuses on flow and transport in porous systems where nonlinear effects or finite-size constraints play a major role. Topics include high-velocity inertial flows, non-linear fluid rheologies, multi-scale transport and mixing, and the behavior of thin porous media under moisture or surface modifications. Contributions from theory, modeling, laboratory experiments, and field studies are welcome.

Solicited Speaker: Laurent Talon (FAST Laboratory & Paris-Saclay University, France)