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Biorefineries and Herbert Sixta in spotlight at 2022 seminar
Biorefineries research group annual seminar presented the latest developments in forest-based, sustainable refineries and analytical tools.
Aalto University boosts bold and new transdisciplinary research projects
13 interdisciplinary teams got internal seed funding for research that boldly pushes existing boundaries and contributes to creating a radically new kind of future
Artificial intelligence to assist the brain
Neuroscience and neurotechnology are gaining a fresh ally in the form of artificial intelligence, which can assess dementia risk and enhance the effectiveness of depression treatments.
Film Silence breaks a taboo
A short film directed by Saara Hakkarainen tells a story of a silenced secret.
Researchers merged quantum optics with a treasure hunt
One of the aims of InstituteQ, the national quantum institute, and the QPlayLearn platform developed by the institute’s researchers is to add our understanding of the significance of quantum research and technologies in the society. Now QPlayLearn has created The Photonic Trail game in collaboration with Quantum Flytrap.
Exhibition: Design creates equality
Exhibition "Design for Every Body" at Design Museum explores the importance of design from the perspective of equality.
Finland's first science satellite, Foresail-1, is ready for space
The satellite and its key instruments will launch in summer 2022.
Blood cancer cells and the immune system are best frenemies
The University of Helsinki and Aalto University collaborated in an international study, which demonstrated that the body's immune system is complicit in a rare type of blood cancer, suggesting a reconsideration of conventional knowledge on the disease.
Upcoming renovation in Harald Herlin Learning Centre
Upcoming renovation on the K-floor. Lockers will be emptied on Apr 11th 2022.
Design builds transformation capacity
The book Designing Change is a quick and readable cross-section of Aalto's world-leading design research
Professor Emeritus Herbert Sixta: “The most important task of a professor is to educate young people, to help them build their career”
After an extensive career in academia and the forest-based industries, Professor Herbert Sixta has retired. Having worked in Austria for 25 years, Sixta arrived in 2007, where his research in biorefineries helped create, among other things, the Ioncell process, a technology that turns used textiles, pulp, and paper into new textile fibres sustainably and without chemicals.
The Rule of Two helps making spaces sound better
Researchers developed the new acoustic measurement technique in a room with more acoustic combinations than there are ants on Earth.
Researchers join forces with companies to develop low-carbon industrial production
Aalto University, the University of Oulu, and VTT, together with seven companies are searching for ways to reduce the environmental impact of industrial production, and for measures that can be combined in an environmentally responsible brand strategy.
A new type of hand prosthesis learns from the user — and the user learns from the prosthesis
New research enables more functional and robust robotic prostheses.
Unite! presents its strategic roadmap towards open science in the digital age
The roadmap includes objectives, recommendations and actions that Aalto and the other universities of the alliance can promote to make Unite! a European driver of open science and innovation by 2023.
Research project develops electrically controlled artificial molecular machines
Electronically controlled molecular machines would be faster as well as easier to manufacture, as they would not need to rely on sophisticated chemical synthesis.
Why the world’s happiest country (and yours) should think more about people’s wellbeing
How a country’s institutions take care of its people shows up in how satisfied people are with their lives
KU Leuven, Aalto University and University of Helsinki join forces to boost research collaboration
New seed funding will be awarded jointly to fund up to five exploratory research projects
Smart urban planning makes daily life smooth in Finland
Easy access to green areas and an environment of trust are some of the ingredients for success
CEST research acknowledged at Physics Days
Manuel Kuchelmeister received the best poster award at Physics Days 2022
