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Retiring Professor Ari Jokilaakso: "Metallurgy is a hot topic"
Retiring Professor Ari Jokilaakso has had a distinguished career in metallurgy in Otaniemi and in industry.
Apply Digital Creatives pre-incubator programme 1.1.-14.2.2024
The application period for the fifth Aalto Digital Creatives pre-incubator program is open!
Aalto in 2023: The most water-repellent surface ever, breakthroughs in space, feeling the love and more
This year has been another feast of science and art at Aalto University
How machine learning can support atmospheric compound discovery
Read how machine learning can help identifying new compounds in atmosphere
Pack-Age: a rich heritage of boundary-breaking design
Pack-Age, Aalto University's packaging design minor subject, is celebrating its twelfth anniversary as a developer of innovative packaging solutions. Originally launched in 2011, the course has grown into a multifaceted platform that combines student insights, diverse resources and an experimental design environment with challenges from industry.
Have you been on Erasmus+ mobility period or considered participating? Answer a survey by 12 Jan 2024, you can win a gift card!
Have you participated or considered participating in the Erasmus+ mobility programme during the years 2014-2023? Answer a survey and you can win a 50 eur gift card!
Arno Solin elected Computer Science teacher of the year 2023
The teacher of the year was announced at the CS Department meeting on Wednesday 20 December 2023.
Aalto University contributes to the newly founded EU Commission’s NEB Academy
The EU Commission’s initiative New European Bauhaus has created the NEB Academy to enhance the development of skills around sustainable construction.
Our five most read computer science stories of 2023
Researchers at the Department of Computer Science have explored new frontiers in computational social science, machine learning and various other subfields in 2023. Our readers were most interested in stories that dealt with love, information security and creativity. See the top five below.
URA foundation scholarships to 19 Aalto athletes
The scholarship amount is either 1 500 or 3 000 euros for one academic year
Aalto University's parking garage Otaparkki opens on January 1, 2024
The new parking garage opens next to Maarintalo on Sähkömiehentie at the beginning of January 2024.
Nokia donates again to quantum and XG doctoral schools
Nokia's industrial doctoral schools in Aalto have been a success. Nokia donates another 480,000€ to them.
‘Organising a congress is always an honorable task,’ says Espoo Ambassador 2023, Professor Peter Lund
Espoo has a new congress ambassador, professor of engineering physics Peter Lund, who was chosen as the Espoo Ambassador 2023. The award recognises Lund's significant contribution to inviting and organising international scientific congresses in Finland, Espoo, and abroad.
New heads of department at the Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering
Professor Rodrigo Serna has been appointed as Head of the Department and Professor Daniel Lindberg as Vice Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Metallurgy, starting in 2024.
The LuoTo action plan has been published providing outlines for a sustainable future in the creative industries
The LuoTo project brings together sustainability projects in the creative industries and sets out concrete steps for the creative industries' transition to an ecologically sustainable, low-carbon future.
Carbon flows into a work of art — Lux Helsinki takes a new look at the lungs of Helsinki
The Lux Helsinki light art festival 3-7 January 2024 will bring science and art together as artists Teemu Lehmusruusu and Roberto Fusco link their work to the CO-CARBON project's research data.
Jukka Suomela studies the limitations and efficiency of computation
Associate Professor Jukka Suomela is a theoretical computer scientist, who works with very hard mathematical problems to uncover the limits and possibilities that computers hold
KY revived the old ”Proffasähly” tradition
The first challenge match after the covid pandemic put the tradition on hold, was played on Monday December 4th, 2023. The game turned out to be a tight battle until the very end.
Aalto researchers voice their concerns at COP28 in Dubai
The decision to phase out fossil fuels requires swift action, especially in the energy sector. The effects of climate change can already be seen in polar regions and global food production.
Professor appointments at the School of Engineering
Three new professors joined the School of Engineering this autumn.
