Research opportunities at Aalto
Aalto University provides high-level facilities for research, teaching and innovation, including unique, nationally significant research infrastructures. Our large infrastructures are open to everyone in the Aalto community.
Driving excellence in research
Aalto University shines in international university rankings, especially in field-specific rankings in technology, art and business, as well as in those that compare young universities.
- Our long-term purpose in research: We excel and make breakthroughs in and across science, art, technology and business.
- Our current focus of development: Driving excellence. We create world-class clusters of excellence in our key research areas and bring complementary talent together to work on grand challenges.
- The planned actions: Attracting and fostering talent, developing selected research infrastructures, new collaboration across fields.
Key research areas
Aalto University’s research focuses on seven key areas combining four core competences in the fields of ICT, materials, arts, design and business together with three grand challenges related to energy, living environment, and health.
Latest research news
Aalto Inventors innovation training coming for hydrogen, quantum and microelectronics researchers this spring
Connect with industry and academic thought-leaders and gain widely applicable skills in communication, intellectual property, and business.
Seizing opportunities — Vuong Vo’s path led through Aalto University and VTT to build the protein factory of the future
Vuong Vo's path led through Aalto University and VTT to a startup, where he is helping build the protein factory of the future.
Growing Materials, Growing Ideas: Inside the BioMaker Studio
At Aalto University’s BioMaker Studio, initiated by Ena Naito, students and researchers experiment with living materials, from algae to mycelium, creating an open, interdisciplinary space where design, biology, and collaboration grow together.
Solid Ground exhibition
The exhibition presents contemporary ceramics and reflections on the world around it.Campus
Aalto University's campus in Otaniemi is the home of an innovative community. Explore the campus virtually at virtualtour.aalto.fi.
