Call for doctoral student tutors, May 2025
Sign-up to be a tutor for new doctoral students as part of the Aalto Doctoral Orientation Days!
Doctoral thesis on nuclear fusion at over one hundred million degrees Celsius awarded European physics prize
Henri Kumpulainen's PhD thesis found out how to best predict the behaviour of fusion energy materials in temperatures of over one hundred million degrees Celsius.
Introduction of the electronic degree certificate at Aalto University progressing as planned
Aalto will introduce electronic degree certificates at the beginning of the 2025–26 academic year with a view to providing a high-quality and reliable electronic degree certificate to its students.
School of Science awards outstanding doctoral and master's theses
Doctoral Thesis Award was granted to Eric Hyyppä, Sakari Lepikko, Kim Myyryläinen, Jane Seppälä, Julia Jaatela, Petrus Mikkola, Shuzhe Wang and Ana Triana Hoyos. Master's theses award was received by Matteo Merler, Aapo Pajala and Tuomas Uusnäkki.
Apply for ELEC Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity funding in April
Students and staff at the School of Electrical Engineering can apply for funding for projects that support equality and diversity throughout April.
First progress report of the National Doctoral Education Pilot published
The report highlights 12 conclusions and three recommendations.
New scientific poster templates
New PowerPoint templates for scientific poster layouts are now available on all Aalto Mac and PC computers.
Social media sharing icons removed from the Aalto's Research Portal – More flexible configuration coming in 2026
All social media sharing icons have been removed from Aalto University’s research portal, as the system does not currently allow individual icon changes. A new portal layout in 2026 will enable more flexible configuration, at which point some icons will be reinstated.
Customer survey on services and facilities of the Learning Centre 2025
Answer the survey March 12th – 26th 2025
Courses for doctoral students in period V (2024-2025)
Period V runs from 14 April to 6 June 2025.
Destination: Doctorate continues with sessions on motivation and enhancing focus
Theme sessions to support the progress of doctoral students and to help them advance their doctoral thesis and studies.
Call for Matti Lehti grant proposals 2025
The applications must relate to the theme of digital information society
Overview of Aalto's open access publications 2024
91 % of Aalto's scientific journal articles published in 2024 are available open access.
Apply for a 2–6-month research internship in Japan!
Aalto’s Master and PhD students can apply for a 2–6-month internship at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Japan.
Publication of Master's theses information in Aalto's research portal delayed
Publication of Master's theses information in Aalto's research portal delayed
Grants from the Finnish Cultural Foundation for science and art
A total of 37 individuals or groups from Aalto University received grants for science or art
Maintenance break in ACRIS on 17th of February, 2025
Maintenance break in ACRIS on February 17th from 10:00 to 16:00.
Cooking open science! Course for doctoral students, postdocs and faculty in March
A fun and engaging way to learn open science practices.
Open access agreements update, February 2025
Remember to take advantage of Aalto University open access agreements with publishers.
Courses for doctoral students in period IV (2024-2025)
Period IV runs from 24 February to 13 April 2025.