School news
Alumna of the Year 2021 Reetta Kaila has built a career that lives up to her values
Reetta Kaila, D.Sc. (Tech.), has been selected as the Alumna of the Year 2021 of the School of Chemical Engineering. Kaila, who is the Director of Sustainable Fuels and Environment at Wärtsilä Energy, is on a mission to reduce emissions and create a sustainable society.
IMAP and submission protocols will be closed 8 November
The use of IMAP and submission protocols will end on Monday, 8 November in Aalto university’s centralized email service. This improves information security, e.g. brute force attempts which block user accounts temporarily, will fail after the change.
Submit questions to the Aalto University Board for the November community event
What would you like to ask the members of our board about the university's long-term development or our operating environment? Submit questions in the discussion area by 16 November.
Chemical engineering education is valued in working life, say graduates of 2015
According to the latest five-year survey, alumni of the School of Chemical Engineering are satisfied with their careers. The next career monitoring survey will run from 4 October to 13 December 2021.
Summer interns' projects in MMD group
Internships 2021 in Multifunctional Materials Design research group
Four years and lots of tears – three experts tell how they succeeded in making the change
Many entrepreneurs and researchers set their goals based on a realisation that something needs to be done differently. The change they envision might be a new product or material, or it can be a new way to do things. Implementing change isn’t always easy, however, and it demands a stomach for uncertainty, say Professor Michael Hummel and entrepreneurs Annu Nieminen and Richard Nordström.
Four Aalto subjects rank in top 100 globally
Economics and Business, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Polymer Science are the best performers among Aalto’s fields in the US News ranking
Irene Purasachit saw the floral industry’s waste problem firsthand – now she makes material for handbags from discarded blooms
Nearly half of cut flowers end up in the trash, never making their way to dinner tables or first dates
Mariana Amatullo appointed ºÚÁÏÍø University Board
Mikko Kosonen and Ilkka Kivimäki to continue for a new three-year term.
A greenhouse out of wood: new design makes vertical farming greener
Efficient insulation halves energy consumption and could boost the income of vertical farms
Paula Jouhten appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems
The field of the professorship is Microbial Physiology. The five-year term begins on 1 January 2022.
Find trainings for hybrid way of working
Hybrid work trial period gives us the opportunity to meet each other. Workday Learning offers support for effective hybrid work
Vice President Janne Laine's portrait was revealed
The portrait was created by Aalto alumna Erica Nyholm.
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Please add your image to Office 365, if your image is not showing e.g. in your email.
Two new Centres of Excellence ºÚÁÏÍø University – the university is also involved in two consortia
Electromechanical Energy Conversion and Transfer and Life-Inspired Hybrid Materials were chosen as Centres of Excellence led by Aalto University
Occupational health physician Jaakko Kalmari: ‘Vaccines allow us to return safely to on-campus work’
Available coronavirus vaccines and boosters are worth taking when your turn comes.
The move of the staff’s general purpose Linux-servers behind firewall on 14 Oct 2021 at 10-12 am
SSH-connections to the servers may get disconnected and you have to reconnect. We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause.
Juuso Mäntykivi appointed Communications Coordinator in Chemistry
Juuso Mäntykivi has been appointed as the new communications coordinator in the School of Chemical Engineering.
Master’s Career Monitoring data now available for Aalto staff
You may find the latest career monitoring data of Aalto University Master’s graduates in Power BI report.
