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Timo Korkeamäki will start as the new dean of the School of Business on 1 January 2020
Eevi Huhtamaa continues as Executive Assistant of the deans.
Ritva Reinikka appointed as Professor of Practice at Helsinki GSE
Helsinki Graduate School of Economics has appointed Ritva Reinikka, D.Phil., to be Professor of Practice. She will be based at Aalto University School of Business. Her three-year professorship will focus on development economics and policy.
Aalto is taking part of H2020 project TERAWAY
TERAWAY is a H2020 5GPPP Phase III project funded by the European Union coming as a technology intensive project aiming to develop a disruptive generation of THz transceivers for high-capacity BH and FH links in 5G networks.
Arto Lindblom to the Head and Sanna-Katriina Asikainen to the Vice Head of the Department of Marketing
The appointments are for the year 2020.
'It’s hard to innovate how to sail around the world if you believe it’s flat'
MEP and our alumna Sirpa Pietikäinen spoke about the condition of our planet in the alumni meet-and-greet in Brussels.
EIT Climate-KIC supported Ioncell directly offers an innovation that regenerates fibres, while enabling them to be recyclable and biodegradable
Ioncell, conceptualised out of Aalto University, provides a closed-loop technology to regenerate cellulosic fibres without using harmful chemicals.
Neural network for elderly care could save millions
A deep neural network model helps predict healthcare visits by elderly people, with the potential to save millions
Making understanding quantum computers easier
IBM collaborates with Professor Sabrina Maniscalco and her group to develop new transformative tools for teaching and outreach about quantum technologies
Food for thought – rethinking Singapore’s Hawker Centres
Singapore’s traditional open-air cooked food centres or hawker centres presented a perfect case to be explored jointly by the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and Aalto University.
Café Kylteri is open during the Christmas week
Café Kylteri is open from Monday to Friday (16.–20 Dec.) at 8:30 am–3:00 pm.
Students develop tools for Helsinki to evaluate the impact of design
Aalto University’s Department of Design and the City of Helsinki initiated collaboration last spring to evaluate the impact of the City's design activities. The evaluation represents the first extensive survey of the City’s design projects and the benefits and challenges of those projects.
Helsinki and FCAI will host a new ELLIS unit for top AI research
Finnish artificial intelligence research received a significant acknowledgement. Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI will host one of the new European units of top AI research, as the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems will establish one of its first units in Finland.
Finland Prizes awarded to professor, designer Pirjo Kääriäinen and alumna, artist and activist Marja Helander
Among this year’s prize recipients were Professor of Practice of Design driven fibre innovation Pirjo Kääriäinen and Aalto ARTS alumna, photographer, filmmaker and activist Marja Helander.
Aalto ranked 34 in the Financial Times European Business Schools Ranking 2019
The ranking position is a round-up of the earlier FT rankings.
Complete Aalto University's online course on startup entrepreneurship
Starting Up is an open access online course covering the fundamentals of startup entrepreneurship
Plenty more indoor air research to be done – correct cleaning methods improve home air quality
We spend an average of 90% of our time indoors, so indoor air quality matters.
The Dead Are Speaking -Audio Drama on Yle
The Dead Are Speaking, a full length audio drama made by Media Lab students has been published on YLE Beta.
Best Paper Award for Acoustics Lab Professor Sebastian J. Schlecht at WASPAA conference
The award was received at IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics. The study solves a more than fifty-year-old problem in artificial reverberation
'Care environments should be planned more user-friendly'
Dissertation of the month: The Aesthetics and Architecture of Care Environments by architect Freja Ståhlberg-Aalto. New series presents current dissertations at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
Alumni of the School of Business returned to their old school 70 years after they started their studies
Budding internationalism, friends, choral singing and a secure post-graduate job are at the forefront of memories.
