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Jakub Both's current interdisciplinary research focuses on topics as: 

• image and data analysis for laboratory porous media experiments
• data-integrated modeling bridging experimental physics and mathematics
• optimal transport metrics in physics for detailed data comparisons
• robust numerical solvers for strongly coupled multiphysics systems
• dissipative systems with gradient flow structures, e.g., nonlinear poroelasticity
• geological CO₂ storage and laboratory analogue experiments

Highlights

Both has received international recognition for his achievements in computational mathematics for flow in porous media, including the prestigious . Additionally, his PhD thesis has been nominated for the as the Nordic representative. He is the winner of the . He is awarded an (2025-29; Norwegian variant of StG) for "TIME₄CO₂: Unlocking maximal geological CO₂ storage capacity through experimentally validated mathematical modeling of dissolution and convective mixing". He is a .

Open-source software development

Both is the lead developer of , focusing on the multi-scale image analysis of fluid displacement in granular media. DarSIA is tightly connected to laboratory CO₂ storage within the universe, as well as the digital twin project . Furthermore, he is a core developer of , a Python Simulation Tool for Fractured and Deformable Porous Media.

Professional commitments

• Organizer of "International Workshop on Image Analysis and Modelling of Laboratory Porous Media Flow" (2025)
• Local organizing committee (ENUMATH 2017, SIAM GS 23, InterPore Norway 2025 | Bergen Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Coupled Subsurface Dynamics)
• Elected chair of the board of 2025-2027 (secretary and communication officer 2022-2024)
• Editorial board member of Open-access journal .
• Member of

PhD students (ongoing and graduated)

• Cilliers Pretorius, ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´, 12/2025- (main advisor) 
  "Accurate discretization of dissolution and convection of CO₂ in brine under dispersion"
• Trygve Tegnander, ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´, 08/2025 - (co-advisor)
  "Versatile analysis tools for data from experimental research on porous media"
• Ayesha Javed, Hasselt U., 09/2023 - (committee member)
  "Upscaling and numerical simulation of flow through fractured porous media"
• Peter von Schultzendorff, ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´, 09/2022 - (main advisor)
  "Iterative Coupling of Physics-Based and Data-Driven Models in Reservoir Modeling"
• Marius Nevland, ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´, 08/2022 - (co-advisor)
  "Nonlinear Solvers for Thermo-Poromechanics with Fracture Contact Mechanics"
• Mathias Methlie Nielsen, NORCE, 2025 (graduated, co-advisor)
  "Optimization Methodology for Sustainable Reservoir Management"
• Erlend Storvik, ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´, 2022 (graduated, co-advisor)
  "Development of robust and efficient solution strategies for coupled problems"

MSc students (ongoing and graduated)

• Sigird Klev Lien, (main advisor)
  "En sammenliknende undersøkelse av homotopi-kontinuitetsmetode og Newton’s metode for tofase-strømningssystemer sett i lys av geologisk CO₂ lagring"
• Ruben Tjore Wespestad, (main advisor)
  "Machine Learning-Based Experiment Design of FluidFlower Tracer Experiments"
• Olivia Wood, ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´, 2025 (main advisor)
  "Advancing optimal transport metrics for model comparisons"
• Sindri Snaer Sigurdarson, 2025 (main advisor)
  "Multi-objective wind farm layout"
• Jakob Stokke, 2023 (co-advisor)
  "Efficient solvers for Richards’ equation"
• Ã…smund SynnevÃ¥g, 2023 (main advisor)
  "Hybrid modeling of the n-body problem with applications to astrophysics"
• Erlend Storvik, 2018 (co-advisor)
  "Optimization of iterative schemes for solving non-linear and/or coupled PDEs"

For a detailed overview, please check my .

Project leader/PI

• NFR Aurora (collaboration with ), , 2026-2027, 0.1 MNOK, , (PI)
• NFR FRIPRO Young Researcher Talent, "Differentiable Fracture Simulation", 2026-2030, 10 MNOK, (co-PI)
• NFR FRIPRO Young Researcher Talent, "TIME4CO2: Unlocking maximal geological CO2 storage capacity through experimentally validated mathematical
  modeling of dissolution and convective mixing", 08/2025-07/2029, 8 MNOK, , (PI)
• NFR Aurora (collaboration with ), "", 2022-2023, 0.1 MNOK, , (PI)

Project administration

• Work package deputy (WP4/5) , 170 MNOK

Project participant

• ERC CoG
• NFR Petrosenter
• NFR FME
• Industry-funded digital twin project