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Disordered hierarchical porous media play a crucial role as fixed bed supports for a wide range of applications from separation techniques such as HPLC to heterogeneous catalysis. To understand and ultimately optimize their performance, the relationship between morphology and transport properties has to be established. The key is a statistically meaningful, quantitative description of the pore structure as basis for pore-scale simulations to determine flow and diffusion properties using realistic models for the macro and mesopores (Figure 1) [1-3].