Alex Hansen is a Professor of Physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Since 2017 he has been the Director of the Centre of Excellence Porous Media Laboratory (PoreLab). He has an outstanding and extensive publication record in physics of porous media, complex matter physics and computational physics. Hansen is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Norwegian Society for Science and Letters. He has an honorary doctorate from the University of Rennes, and he is honorary faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology at Guwahati.
