School Latest News:
Charlotte Forsgård joined Research Services as Information Specialist
Charlotte Forsgård works in the Open Science and ACRIS team.
Vision 2030: This is what the clothes of the future will look like
Fashion designers turned old hand towels and used work clothes into a sustainable clothing collection.
Antti Rousi starts as Data Advisor in Research Services
Dr. Antti Rousi started as Data Advisor in the Open Science and ACRIS team in December.
Aalto ranks 30th in Times Higher Education listing for young universities
The ranking lists the world’s best universities that are 50 years old or younger
Paula Jouhten seeks to replace oil-based chemistry by controlling the physiology of microbial cells
Paula Jouhten, D.Sc., started her five-year fixed-term professorship at the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems at the beginning of 2022. Jouhten leads the Microbial Physiology research group at Aalto University.
Aalto researchers contribute to fusion energy record
Record-breaking 59 megajoules of sustained fusion energy demonstrate potential of fusion to deliver safe, low-carbon energy
A documentary film about everyday life in care work: a double win to Susanna Helke's film at Docpoint festival
Musical documentary film won the National Competition and the audience favourite award in the Finnish Documentary Film Competition.
5G test network development continues in Otaniemi
The 5G test network will soon be 6G, and new technologies are developed for both wireless and fixed networking.
Finland creates an educational package to make cybersecurity a civic skill across the European Union
Researchers at Aalto University are creating an educational package on cybersecurity, which will be shared with all EU countries. Finland has been awarded EUR 5 million for this project from the EU recovery instrument for a three-year period.
Learning from the brain: Stéphane Deny uses insights from neuroscience for better artificial intelligence
Machine learning models typically need gigantic data sets and a lot of energy, whereas the brain consumes as much power as a single light bulb. Aalto’s new assistant professor uses neuroscience to make computer programs more efficient.
Bayer, Aalto and HUS expand collaboration – artificial intelligence to support clinical drug trials
The project is led by Bayer and seeks to build an innovation ecosystem of companies, universities and representatives of the health sector, making Finland a top country in clinical research.
Academy funding: Future energy communities and energy self-sufficiency
The DigiDecarbon project explores citizens' digital energy communities.
EUR 11 million for research infrastructures
The Academy of Finland funding strengthens, among other things, fabrication of micro and nanostructures, quantum and high-performance computing, biomedical imaging, future wireless networks, and arctic research
New power transfer technology provides unprecedented freedom for wireless charging
Devices can be charged regardless of their position or orientation and even on the go.
MMD pre-Xmas event 2021
Multifunctional Materials Design research group's end-of-the-year celebration
New library resource: language service MOT Kielipalvelu is now available
MOT Kielipalvelu provides up-to-date dictionaries, machine translators and language checkers.
New professor Laure Mercier de Lépinay: It is important to stay flexible in our understanding of the world
Laure Mercier de Lépinay I continue to study microwave optomechanics which can allow us to uncover new fundamental physics.
Peter Liljeroth becomes new vice-dean at School of Science
Liljeroth is responsible for research and impact
Where would you like to sit down, which part of the campus needs garden benches? Leave your proposal!
Propose where new garden benches and different kinds of plants will be set up to the campus in spring 2022.