announcements
2025
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- Master M2 Internship position available at IRPHE on Modeling Bacterial Navigation in Complex Porous Environments: Chemotaxis and Quorum Sensing
- Master M2 Internship position available at IRPHE on Flow through deformable vascular network
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June 4: Ankur gets funding from Bonus Qualit ́e Recherche (EQUIPEMENT SCIENTIFIQUE) La Direction de la Recherche
de Centrale Méditerranée (Granted budget: 16, 000€)
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April 10: Ankur joins the position of Chaire de Professeur Junior (CPJ) at I.R.P.H.E./CNRS. This position is awarded with a funding package from ANR and Amidex to lead independent research and teaching activities (Granted budget: 250, 000€)
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March 31: Ankur completes his Marie-Curie project ORION at TU Delft.
Dec 10
Little joys of teaching! 😊
Today I had great fun teaching my first class on flow through porous media to Master’s students at Aix-Marseille University. We revisited one of the simplest and most powerful demonstrations in porous media science: measuring permeability using nothing more than beach sand from Marseille, a syringe, and gravity.
It’s remarkable how such a small tabletop experiment can reveal the foundations of Darcy’s law and spark curiosity about complex subsurface flows, filtration, and even biological transport.
Here’s to more hands-on science and the joy of learning by doing!
