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Five new Academy Research Fellow and three Postdoctoral Researcher posts
The new posts are funded by the Academy of Finland鈥檚 Research Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment, and Research Council for Culture and Society.
FOAMING installation by ELO artist-researchers in the Venice Research Pavilion #3 opening week
The installation is part of AIRA Artistic Intelligence Research Alternator project, one of the seven 鈥渞esearch cells鈥 of the nearly 4-month event.
Small Finland is a big player in the circular economy of metals
Finland was chosen to lead the strategic planning for battery recycling in Europe. Two key reasons for this achievement are the high-level research carried out in Finland and the close cooperation within the sector.
How can wastewater become a resource?
A crucial part of the circular economy, wastewater can give us essential nutrients in an environmentally friendly way.
'The solutions for circular economy are not achieved alone'
A circular economy workshop series develops new collaborations between engineers and business researchers.
DNA folds into a smart drug carrier
DNA nanostructures can be programmed to function as pH-responsive cargo carriers, paving the way towards functional drug-delivery vehicles.
Brain scans on movie watchers reveal how we judge people
Researchers used brain scans to reveal the biases people feel towards people who are like them, even if they can鈥檛 see that they are like them
Solving the construction productivity puzzle with digital situation awareness
Aalto University researchers believe they have found the reason to why digitalisation hasn't produced the expected boost in productivity.
Aalto Team Win AI Research Award
Research into easier-to-interpret deep learning methods win prestigious Notable Paper award at AISTATS2019
Valuable waste
Waste incineration by-products can contain a great deal of valuable and heavy metals. These metals should not be wasted.
New methods in fashion and clothing design
Aalto Fashion鈥檚 New Construction Methods exhibition presents creative approaches and experiments in fashion and clothes design and manufacture in Dipoli in April.
'My goal is to educate designers who can work at the highest levels of government'
Professor Ramia Maz茅 tells how design can bridge the gap between citizens and policy making. She's also pushing design in a whole new direction.
Professor Olli Ikkala wins Dutch Polymer Science award
The annual PTN Medema Lecture award is granted to a renowned international polymer scientist
A statistician who researches business analytics and common diseases
In his work, Pekka Malo develops methods that can be applied in many areas.
Heavy metal music and Finnish identity are deeply intertwined
Academy Research Fellow Toni-Matti Karjalainen knows how Finnish metal music contributes to the Finnish country brand.
Put the brakes on climate change 鈥 producing high-grade chemicals from carbon dioxide
A study aiming to use CO2 as, for example, transport fuel have received significant funding from the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation.
Getting a PhD in watching Twitch: exploring why millions watch people play video games
In his doctoral dissertation, Max Sj枚blom examines services like YouTube and Twitch and tries to understand why people keep watching others play video games
Jussi Rintanen knows how to find the right option from among the countless possibilities
Algorithm-based artificial intelligence can help optimise bus routes, factories and work shift lists. It can also be used to automate the much of current software development.
Dissertation: Transition to a low-carbon energy system is possible
Climate march can make a difference.
Oh, a new object! I wonder how it works? A robot can learn by experimentation
Aalto University is involved in a research project which aims to make robots try out new things and thus learn how to use them without precise pre-programming.
