17th International Symposium on Wettability and Porous Media
7th InterPore BeNeLux Meeting
30 November - 2 December 2026 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands
About the ISWPM26
ISWPM26 aims to bring together two communities with a shared interest in the processes governing fluid flow and deformation in porous media. While the meeting broadly showcases advances across all engineering applications of porous materials, it will place a particular focus on wetting physics across scales, from local interfacial mechanisms to effective wettability in complex systems.
The symposium will highlight recent experimental, computational, and theoretical developments, and will connect pore-scale insights to macroscopic applications ranging from CO₂/H₂ storage, groundwater and geothermal systems, to batteries, coatings, filtration, microfluidics, and bio-inspired materials.
Authors from all related fields are invited to submit abstracts under the following themes:
• Modelling, characterisation, and applications of natural and industrial porous-media systems
• Modelling and characterisation of wetting behaviour at interfaces
• Experimental and computational approaches to quantify wettability and upscale to macro-scale behaviour
• How wettability controls performance in real systems across energy, environmental, and materials applications.
Local Organising Committee
Dr. Martin Lesueur TU Delft LOC Chair | Dr. Maja Rücker TU Eindhoven LOC Co-Chair | Prof. Hadi Hajibeygi TU Delft LOC Co-Chair | Dr. Steffen Berg Shell LOC Co-Chair | Iris Batterham TU Delft Project manager |
Why you should attend
Wetting governs how fluids move, mix, react, and are retained in complex porous materials, influencing processes from subsurface energy and groundwater flow to microfluidics, batteries, coatings, filtration, and bio-inspired materials. Despite this broad relevance, research on fundamental wetting physics and work on wettability in porous media often develop along separate lines.
The Wettability Symposium – InterPore BeNeLux 2026 provides a shared forum for exchange between the BeNeLux porous-media community, the international wettability community, and researchers working on interfacial phenomena in complex fluids and materials. The three-day programme dedicates one day to porous media in general and two days to wetting and wettability across scales and applications, with the aim of exchanging recent advances, linking wetting physics to effective wettability, and encouraging collaboration across disciplines and application domains.
