Creating a unique professional profile by combining different fields of science
24. lokakuu 2018
Associate Professor in the field of Thermodynamics of metallurgical processes, geologist and chemist, encourages students to study combinations of different subjects and fields of science.
Science and art
ERC Synergy Grant worth €10M will help develop new techniques for brain research, disease diagnostics, and patient care
23. lokakuu 2018
The methods are based on rapid, algorithm-controlled magnetic pulses that excite neurons and forge connections across brain regions.
Press releases Science and art
TV series for teenagers are a hit
16. lokakuu 2018
Short TV series also available online, made by Aalto students, have found their audience in Finland and abroad.
Studies Cooperation
Postdoc (PHYS-CEST) Amber Geurts: Finalist of 2018 Skolar Award
13. lokakuu 2018
CEST-postdoc Amber Geurts is one of 8 finalists competing for the 2018 Skolar Award organised by Slush. Her project aims to change how society sees Artificial Intelligence.
Science and art
Professor Katri Kauppi knows just what it takes to succeed in outsourcing
12. lokakuu 2018
Just because you understand a clause in a contract, doesn’t mean you know what you are about to buy.
Science and art
Space professor's research looks twenty-five years into the future
12. lokakuu 2018
Esa Kallio, the man behind upcoming missions to send space probes to Mercury and Jupiter, blends the right mix of childish curiosity and steely determination.
Science and art
Innovating in the IDBM Challenge course for the future of Helsinki and Copenhagen
10. lokakuu 2018
Students in this multidisciplinary and multi-format course developed practical solutions for the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Studies
Forget about cords and plugs, electric cars will be charged wirelessly: energy solutions for the future are developed in Otaniemi
10. lokakuu 2018
Electric cars will be charged smartly, a virtual power plant will enable environmentally friendly production of electricity, and heat will be stored deep in the ground.
Science and art Cooperation
Jukka Mäkelä named Alumni of the Year 2018 by Aalto University School of Engineering
10. lokakuu 2018
Espoo – Tapiola and Otaniemi in particular – has always been important to Mayor Jukka Mäkelä.
Honored Press releases
Already as a child, Assistant Professor Arno Solin wanted to build smart robots
10. lokakuu 2018
Over the years, his childhood enthusiasm with programming and mathematical models was developed into research in real-time machine learning and sensor fusion.
Science and art
Fibre technologies revolutionising the textile industry win the European Commission's Regiostars Awards
10. lokakuu 2018
VTT and Aalto University’s TeKiDe project won the category "Achieving sustainability through low carbon emissions".
Honored Science and art
Neste and Aalto University to begin strategic research cooperation
10. lokakuu 2018
The cooperation will strengthen Finnish competitiveness.
Science and art Press releases Cooperation
Merja Penttilä obtains over 1 million euro funding to synthetic biology from the Wihuri Foundation
10. lokakuu 2018
The funding goes for the establishment of a Centre for Young Synbio Scientists.
Science and art
The first Motivator of the year awards were given at the School of Electrical Engineering
9. lokakuu 2018
The best courses and their teachers were rewarded at dean's coffee on 4.10.2018.
Studies Honored
For Professor Antti Räisänen, sociability is about caring for others
5. lokakuu 2018
Professor Antti Räisänen has completed his long academic career, beginning his retirement on 1 October 2018.
Science and art
Educational satellite won a spot in the International Space Station
5. lokakuu 2018
Aalto students designed a satellite, which even a child can assemble and programme. The instructions can soon be downloaded from the web and you can design the exterior yourself, perhaps from a milk carton.
Travel Grants for Materials Researchers
4. lokakuu 2018
Materials Platform is offering individual travel grants for €1000 to increase opportunities for young Materials researchers to network and disseminate research findings.
Science and art
Young women want to find their way into careers in technology—high school students rushed to book the new event Shaking up Tech full in an hour
4. lokakuu 2018
200 young women from high schools all over Finland will participate in workshops, familiarise with studies in technology, and meet influencers.
Studies Press releases
Hundred per cent of doctors from the School of Electrical Engineering are satisfied with their degree
4. lokakuu 2018
A career monitoring survey examined how doctoral graduates from 2014 were employed.
Studies
Aalto University recruits a new Vice President to lead the Innovation agenda
3. lokakuu 2018
The recruitment process has started. Please send your application by 21 October.
Other
Finlandia Prize for Architecture for the New Children’s Hospital
3. lokakuu 2018
The hospital was designed from child's point of view.
Honored
At ten years old, Design Factory is yet to make itself obsolete
1. lokakuu 2018
The experimentation platform has grown beyond Aalto University and become a global network. More boundaries remain to be broken, even within Design Factory’s own operating environment.
Campus Science and art Cooperation
School of Business was granted EQUIS accreditation for a further five years
1. lokakuu 2018
The School got praise e.g. for the development of corporate collaboration and social impact.
Other
Architectural week in libraries this week
1. lokakuu 2018
Libraries all over Finland celebrate architecture 1-7 October, for the first time. Architectural week is inspired by Finland's exhibition at the Venice International Architecture Biennale.
Other
Critique towards the conventional food system manifests in the popularity of local and organic food
1. lokakuu 2018
A recent doctoral dissertation shows how people challenge the current system of food production and market exchange by buying their food directly from local farms.
Other