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New laser therapy seeks to halt the progression of age-related vision loss
The Maculaser heat treatment heats the back of the eye with a near-infrared laser while precisely controlling the temperature during the treatment. The goal is to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in an individualised, safe and effective manner.
Funding by the Academy of Finland September call totals EUR 20.6 million
Funding was granted by three Academy of Finland Research Councils: Biosciences, Health and the Environment; Culture and Society; Natural Sciences and Engineering
Aalto’s Economics and Business ranks 79th in NTU ranking
Computer science landed 95th place and four other subjects in technology among top 150
Meet the new Innovation Advisors at SCI
We chat to Ilkka Hyytiäinen and Juha Siivola who, along with Tuomas Planman will support the school as innovation advisors
Working as a researcher is ’like playing with your favorite toy but you get paid for it’
Academic career wasn't a clear choice to Professors Friedrich Simmel and Francesco Ricci.
Aalto Professors publish new neuroscience textbook
‘Brain Signals’ by Risto Ilmoniemi and Jukka Sarvas comprehensively reviews brain scanning techniques and the mathematics you need to analyse them
Dean of the School of Science grants Master’s thesis awards 2018
Kukka-Emilia Huhtinen, Ana Maria Triana Hoyos and Antti Tolppanen receive the Master's Thesis Awards.
Demand for doctors of engineering
Demanding product development projects provide employment for doctors of engineering.
Headphones made from biomaterials produced by yeast and fungal mycelium
Microbially grown materials can be used to replace oil-based materials in various everyday consumer products – such as headphones.
20 new Academy Projects ºÚÁÏÍø
The total funding granted by the Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering is 8.9 million euros.
Security concerns everyone
The topic of the international ITS conference in Otaniemi is information security from the viewpoint of both science and companies.
Doctoral and master’s degrees conferred in festive events
Attend the lectures and follow the conferment events online on 13 and 14 June starting at 13.00.
What hinders manufacturing companies from providing effective maintenance services? Researchers identified three key factors
Poor quality data and information systems that do not communicate with each other prevent companies from providing effective maintenance services
Professor Björn Högberg: I don’t think people realize everything we can do with DNA
To DNA nanotechnologists, DNA is a smart building material that can be useful in the development of medical applications
Nantech brought nearly one hundred international researchers to Espoo
Understanding of computer science and mathematics becomes increasingly important in the field of DNA nanotechnology, says Professor Pekka Orponen
Professor Kurt Gothelf: The DNA origami method will undoubtedly influence development of new medicine
An invited speaker of Nantech2019, Kurt Gothelf, was one of the first scientists to develop DNA nanostructures
Snowflakes hold the secret to how tooth enamel is formed
The newly published work helps to explain why even closely-related species – such as humans and orangutans – have very different looking teeth.
Community event greenlights university's cornerstones
The university’s values, purpose and way of working will be presented to the board for discussion in June.
Mayor of Espoo Jukka Mäkelä, Artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila and 13 other influencers in the fields of technology, art and society are awarded an honorary doctorate at Aalto University
Aalto University’s doctoral conferment ceremonies for the fields of art and technology will take place 13 and 14 June 2019 in Dipoli in Otaniemi. Honorary doctors’ panel discussion will be held 11 June.
How to tackle scarce data and high dimensionality in machine learning? Juho Piironen brings novel techniques to predictive modeling
Doctoral candidate, MSc Juho Piironen, studied Bayesian statistical inference in supervised learning problems and proposed novel techniques to account for uncertainty and computational cost in predictive model construction and feature selection.
