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Matthijs Lof appointed as Assistant Professor in Finance (2. term)
  Assistant Professor of Finance Matthijs Lof has been appointed for a second term at the Department of Finance.
      
      
    Skype data of 500 million people reveals the real patterns of social adoption
  Global patterns of adoption spreading are induced by local adoption cascades.
      
      
    
  Economics research increasingly of interest also to women
  The Department of Economics has seen around a dozen women defending their doctoral theses over the last two years.
      
      
    
  It isn’t worth making compromises when recruiting for growth businesses
  The team game builds success, growth and business culture.
      
      
    
  International small business award to Olli Vuola
  Aalto Ventures Programs Executive Director Olli Vuola received the International Council for Small Businessin Presidential Award in New York.
      
      
    Researchers implemented a prototype for Narrowband Internet-of-Things system
  This is among the first standalonemode NB-IoT, Narrowband Internet-of-Things, implementations in the world.
      
      
    
  Software Business Lab part of winning team in Fortum Hackathon
  Akatsuki Ryu represents SBL in the winning team, Team Proximity, in the Fortum Hackathon in May
      
      
    Researchers discover attacks against widely used cryptographic libraries
  The researchers fixed the vulnerability by editing the code in a way that the attacker cannot learn the secret key of the victim.
      
      
    Saija Hollmén appointed Vice Dean at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture
  Ms Hollmén’ area of responsibility is art and creative practices.
      
      
    
  Electrical engineering and automation professorship named Walter Ahlström professorship
  Professor Matti Lehtonen will hold the professorship.
      
      
    
  Professorship strengthens the cooperation of ABB and Aalto in Industrial Internet solutions
  Dr. Iiro Harjunkoski has been appointed Adjunt Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering.
      
      
    
  Päivi Törmä appointed Academy Professor
  The results of Törmä’s work are expected to pave the way to the development of room temperature superconductors.
      
      
    Acoustics researcher finds explanation for auroral sounds
  Sounds are born when charges in the lower atmosphere’s temperature inversion layer discharge as a result of geomagnetic storms.
      
      
    New Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) research programs selected
  The new HIIT research programs will be launched in August 2016
      
      
    New M.Sc. programme in Global Management established
  The new M.Sc. programme is built around the prestigious CEMS MIM studies.
      
      
    
  Digital platforms are underutilised in Finland
  According ºÚÁÏÍø University researchers, Finnish Mittelstand companies do not utilise digital platforms.
      
      
    Environmental drainage channel decreases amount of substances transported to the water system
  Land drainage, the morphological status of channels and the quality of water can be improved with compound channels.
      
      
    
  Women need role models in information technology and information about the benefits of the technology
  As a rule, women and men have different perceptions of such matters as the human dimension of information technology.
      
      
    
  Finland number 1 in digitalization
  Finland rose to the top position in the Digibarometer 2016, an annual study comparing the stage of digitalization in 22 countries.
      
      
    
  New surface makes oil contamination remove itself
  Researchers of Aalto University have developed surfaces where oil transports itself to desired directions.