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QS Ranking: Aalto places 134th in the world
Aalto is #1 in Finland with regard to relative number of research citations, and international students and faculty
Auditing is about teamwork, but just one person can have a significant impact on its success
Recent research shows that the cognitive abilities of the auditor-in-charge affect the quality of the audits prepared by the team.
Gerfried Stocker: Creativity requires nurture
The Director of Ars Electronica brings up how artists are the experts we have in the human-technology encounter – but creativity can’t be used as a never-ending raw material.
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
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
LuxTurrim5G ecosystem builds smart cities
The industry group lead by Nokia Bell Labs is building key enablers for a fast 5G network based on smart light poles, which will form the digital backbone of future smart cities.
Unraveling fast fashion at the seams
Finnish clothing designer Matti Liimatainen has created a range of garments that wearers themselves assemble by hand. Now he's using automation technology to bring people even closer to the production of their own clothes.
Heavy metal researchers, representatives of the music industry and artists meet for the first time in Otaniemi
The Modern Heavy Metal Conference will consider the authenticity and commercial appeal of the music, artists and culture.
During the 2019 Finnish parliamentary election there were more bots on Twitter than expected but their impact was negligible
More than half a million Twitter accounts were analysed for the Master’s thesis.
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.
Risto Siilasmaa, who delivered the Jaakko Honko lecture, recommends studying quantum computing and machine learning
The lecture, named after Chancellor Jaakko Honko, brought together more than 300 School of Business alumni to Ekonominaukio 1.
BATCircle featured in Materia magazine
Aalto led Finland- based Circular Ecosystem of Battery Metals was featured in the newest Materia Magazine (2/2019 May)
Doctoral studies taught Osman Yilmaz the value of trial and error
Senior Researcher and Research Project Manager Osman Yilmaz, whose doctoral degree will be conferred in the ceremonial conferment in June, is now working on 5G at Ericsson.
Emma-Riikka Myllymäki: High quality reporting improves decision-making
The Assistant Professor of accounting encourages companies to develop their sustainability reporting.
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
