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 2025 SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences Early Career Prize. Additionally, his PhD thesis has been nominated for the European-wide ECCOMAS Best PhD thesis 2019 as the Nordic representative. He is the winner of the 10th ECCOMAS PhD Olympiad. He is awarded an NFR FRIPRO Young Researcher talent grant (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 Momentum delegate 2025/26.

Open-source software development

Both is the lead developer of DarSIA (Darcy Scale Image Analysis toolbox), focusing on the multi-scale image analysis of fluid displacement in granular media. DarSIA is tightly connected to laboratory CO₂ storage within the FluidFlower universe, as well as the digital twin project PoroTwin (link to youtube). Furthermore, he is a core developer of PorePy, 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 InterPore Norway 2025-2027 (secretary and communication officer 2022-2024)
• Editorial board member of Open-access journal Examples and Counterexamples.
• Member of InterPore Student Awards and Grants Sub-Committee

PhD students (ongoing and graduated)

• Cilliers Pretorius, UiB, 12/2025- (main advisor) 
  "Accurate discretization of dissolution and convection of CO₂ in brine under dispersion"
• Trygve Tegnander, UiB, 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, UiB, 09/2022 - (main advisor)
  "Iterative Coupling of Physics-Based and Data-Driven Models in Reservoir Modeling"
• Marius Nevland, UiB, 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, UiB, 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, UiB, 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"
• Åsmund Synnevåg, 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 google scholar.

Project leader/PI

• NFR Aurora (collaboration with L. Metivier), "PARTILAB: Parameter estimation of laboratory porous media", 2026-2027, 0.1 MNOK, Project nr. 361353, (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, Project nr. 355188, (PI)
• NFR Aurora (collaboration with C. Cancès), "GradFlowPoro: Gradient flow modelling of multi-phase flow in deformable porous media", 2022-2023, 0.1 MNOK, Project nr. 331960, (PI)

Project administration

• Work package deputy (WP4/5) NFR Centre for Sustainable Subsurface Resources (CSSR), 170 MNOK

Project participant

• ERC CoG "MaPSI: Mathematical and Numerical Modelling of Process-Structure Interaction in Fractured Geothermal Systems"
• NFR Petrosenter "CSSR: Centre for sustainable subsurface resources"
• NFR FME "gigaCCS: Research Centre for Carbon Capture and Storage"
• Industry-funded digital twin project PoroTwin