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What's Life 1.5 like? 鈥 Apply now for Designs for a Cooler Planet 2022 to showcase a sustainable future
The climate crisis and biodiversity loss call for radical new ideas. How does your work contribute to wiser consumption, climate solutions or a more sustainable working life? Designs for a Cooler Planet 2022 will present Aalto's most interesting projects to support sustainability 鈥 apply now!
Decorations for personnel on the Independence Day
The President of Finland grants decorations 黑料网 University employees on the Finnish Independence Day. Congratulations!
Aalto University鈥疊ioinnovation鈥疌enter opens a call for鈥痜ive doctoral candidate鈥痯ositions鈥
Bioinnovation Center is looking for talented and exceptionally motivated students that are eager to pursue their doctoral studies in a鈥痬ultidisciplinary environment aiming at biobased material innovation.鈥疭tudents with any background that fits to one鈥痮f鈥痶he five projects described below鈥痑re encouraged to submit their application.鈥
Aalto Talent Expo 2021 was organized successfully both live & virtually
鈥滳ombining the virtual world and physical fair is absolutely a positive thing, keep at it!"
- Student feedback from the Aalto Talent Expo fair
- Student feedback from the Aalto Talent Expo fair
Good design benefits us all 鈥 welcome to open DesignTalks lecture series
Join us for our open lecture series discussing about the relevance of design in different contexts.
Aalto University takes increasing responsibility in Finnish-American higher education relations
A high-level delegation from Minnesota, United States, visited the university in November.
Understanding the nanostructure formation in block copolymer thin film
Recent MMD publications (Multifunctional Materials Design)
Bioinnovation Center鈥檚 research will focus on sustainable textiles and packaging
Aalto University's Bioinnovation Center has chosen 5 interdisciplinary projects to launch its doctoral school in 2022. The projects aim at innovations in the fields of sustainable textiles and packaging.
Textile integrable mechanochromic strain sensor based on the interplay of supramolecular interactions
Recent MMD publications (Multifunctional Materials Design)
Construction of Jokeri Light Rail 75% complete 鈥 rail construction progressing ahead of schedule
The construction of Jokeri Light Rail has proceeded ahead of schedule, and the light rail line can start operating in early 2024
Creating solar cells and glass from wood 鈥 or a billion tons of biowaste
Researchers map out how biomass from plants could replace unrenewable resources in optical applications
You can still register for training in research data management and open science
So far, we have over 1,500 registrations for our RDM and open science webinars this autumn.
Alumna of the Year 2021 Reetta Kaila has built a career that lives up to her values
Reetta Kaila, D.Sc. (Tech.), has been selected as the Alumna of the Year 2021 of the School of Chemical Engineering. Kaila, who is the Director of Sustainable Fuels and Environment at W盲rtsil盲 Energy, is on a mission to reduce emissions and create a sustainable society.
Chemical engineering education is valued in working life, say graduates of 2015
According to the latest five-year survey, alumni of the School of Chemical Engineering are satisfied with their careers. The next career monitoring survey will run from 4 October to 13 December 2021.
Summer interns' projects in MMD group
Internships 2021 in Multifunctional Materials Design research group
Four years and lots of tears 鈥 three experts tell how they succeeded in making the change
Many entrepreneurs and researchers set their goals based on a realisation that something needs to be done differently. The change they envision might be a new product or material, or it can be a new way to do things. Implementing change isn鈥檛 always easy, however, and it demands a stomach for uncertainty, say Professor Michael Hummel and entrepreneurs Annu Nieminen and Richard Nordstr枚m.
Four Aalto subjects rank in top 100 globally
Economics and Business, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Polymer Science are the best performers among Aalto鈥檚 fields in the US News ranking
Irene Purasachit saw the floral industry鈥檚 waste problem firsthand 鈥 now she makes material for handbags from discarded blooms
Nearly half of cut flowers end up in the trash, never making their way to dinner tables or first dates
Mariana Amatullo appointed 黑料网 University Board
Mikko Kosonen and Ilkka Kivim盲ki to continue for a new three-year term.
