News related to research and art
Top-up funding for Aalto University to exploit research results
Aalto University Professor Zhipei Sun is leading one of the potential frontier research projects.
Inside the Quartet takes the audience to the virtual world of string quartets
Professional acoustics and sound specialists have been involved in implementing the virtual reality installation that will be on display in Hanover and Helsinki in May and at Our Festival in Järvenpää and Tuusula in July.
The science satellite Foresail-1 was successfully launched into space 25 May
The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Research of Sustainable Space's nanosatellite was successfully launched into space from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Centre.
Blockchains uphold data platform cooperation
Research has shown that a blockchain supports the transparency of data and the integrity of data in traffic between different platforms in an Internet of Things environment, thereby stabilising collaboration among platforms.
There is more to work than a big salary
A global survey of 4206 professionals found that work-life balance and salary rank equally as top criteria when looking for a new job. However, the choice of a job depends on many other factors as well, says CEMS Aalto alumnus Georg Namuth.
The Finnish Freshwater Competence Centre Aims to Boost Science, Education, and Business with Key Technologies
The main goal of the Freshwater Competence Centre is to promote the research infrastructure, equipment, and the outstanding Finnish freshwater competence and knowledge both nationally and internationally, in order to make wide-reaching science with concrete impact.
Heidi Fast: 'When interaction is impossible, vocal work can help connect with psychiatric patients'
I claim series presents our recent doctoral theses.
Wood Studio meets with success in WantedDesign New York
Aalto University takes part in the international WantedDesign online exhibition 2022. WantedDesign is a platform for creative talent, and it organises digital exhibitions featuring great design from around the world.
Designers find better solutions with computer assistance, but sacrifice creative touch
Computer-guided design can propose more solutions and balance out human inexperience and design fixation
Ascending Investigator Grant from Novo Nordisk Foundation awarded to Maria Sammalkorpi for computational biosynthetic materials research
Senior Scientist Maria Sammalkorpi has been awarded the highly competed Ascending Investigator 2022 Grant from Novo Nordisk Foundation for a total of ca 9 million DKK (1.2M€).
How to accelerate innovations, ensure food sequrity and make cities green? Sustainability Science Days seeks answers to the huge sustainability challenges of our time
Sustainability Science Days 2022 focuses on global system-level solutions for food systems, cities, governance and more. Sustainability Science Days is Finland's largest two-day science conference on sustainable development, organized by Aalto University and the University of Helsinki.
‘Painting Energies’ Podcast Explores Light and Energy at the Intersection of Art and Science
A new podcast hosted by physicist Janne Halme and artist Bartaku explores the connections between light and color, plant and microbe, art and science. The Painting Energies podcast builds upon their visionary artscience workings that have been evolving at Aalto University since 2017. Painting Energies is not to be missed for any scientist, artist or student looking to find new ways of combining art and science.
Art for All festival returns in August
The cross-artistic festival will take place 26.-28.8.2022 in the Helsinki Botanical Garden. The event features pieces from performing arts to installations and audiovisual works.
New Academy Research Fellows and postdoctoral researchers
Funding granted by the Academy of Finland brings six new Academy Research Fellows, and 14 postdoctoral researchers ºÚÁÏÍø University – congratulations to all!
Questions and answers about space giants
Why is it important to study black holes? Read more about the Event Horizon Telescope project in the questions and answers column.
Researchers’ bio
Researchers from Aalto University, University of Turku, and Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO participated the project taking a photo of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy.
Artificial intelligence can offset human frailties, leading to better decisions
‘Centaurs’ are human-AI partnerships that collaborate for better decision-making
Press conference at ESO on groundbreaking new Milky Way results from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
You can watch the press conference live on ESO page, or on ESO's YouTube channel.
Coworking with their spouses helps women to improve earnings
According to new research, self-employed and co-working couples balance their individual earnings
University's research data has been published on the national research portal
Aalto university's research data are published on the national research portal
