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Student Roman Suran wanted to give back and became an international tutor
Roman finds tutoring rewarding, because he has made friends from all around the world and learned to get along with people from different backgrounds
‘It’s spectacular to be part of a centuries old European academic tradition’
Jyrki Wallenius, Jubilee Master, would not miss a magnificent conferment ceremony, no matter what
Student, are you Aalto University’s next campus guide?
As a campus guide, you provide the personnel, visitors and other members of our community with memorable campus experience
Caterina Foti: My dream is to expose people from 0- to 99-years old to the quantum world
Caterina Foti is involved in a quantum institute, a quantum online platform, a quantum exhibition, and a quantum startup that just received seed funding.
Paula Jouhten seeks to replace oil-based chemistry by controlling the physiology of microbial cells
Paula Jouhten, D.Sc., started her five-year fixed-term professorship at the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems at the beginning of 2022. Jouhten leads the Microbial Physiology research group at Aalto University.
The competition proposals for the Otaniemen Tietokorttelit architecture competition are now available for public feedback
Competition proposals for the Otaniemen Tietokorttelit architecture competition for Biology and Marine Technology area were submitted in January and the jury will now review the proposals. The winner of the competition will be selected during the spring 2022.
Samuli Knüpfer has been appointed professor of ownership at the School of Business
The professorship in ownership has been established with donated funds.
Aalto researchers contribute to fusion energy record
Record-breaking 59 megajoules of sustained fusion energy demonstrate potential of fusion to deliver safe, low-carbon energy
A documentary film about everyday life in care work: a double win to Susanna Helke's film at Docpoint festival
Musical documentary film won the National Competition and the audience favourite award in the Finnish Documentary Film Competition.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, students at the School of Business want to participate in student exchange
A record number of 500 business students have applied for student exchange for the academic term 2022–2023
A new approach for detecting ultra-low-energy photons
Professor Jukka Pekola and Doctoral Candidate Bayan Karimi from Aalto University propose a new approach to measure the energy of single microwave photons. These low energy quanta are emitted by artificial quantum systems such as superconducting qubits. Detecting them continuously has been challenging but would be useful in quantum information processing and other quantum technologies.
5G test network development continues in Otaniemi
The 5G test network will soon be 6G, and new technologies are developed for both wireless and fixed networking.
Quantum computing is forcefully moving from labs to markets
Associate Professor Nina Granqvist leads an Academy of Finland research project that studies the market emergence around quantum computing in real time.
KONE and Aalto University’s teaching collaboration approaches design as a method, way of thinking and competitive advantage
A key component of the collaboration is study projects, in which student teams work to solve companies’ real-life challenges.
Finland creates an educational package to make cybersecurity a civic skill across the European Union
Researchers at Aalto University are creating an educational package on cybersecurity, which will be shared with all EU countries. Finland has been awarded EUR 5 million for this project from the EU recovery instrument for a three-year period.
Participatory research to improve artificial intelligence based public sector services and empower citizens
Multidisciplinary research team invites citizens, civil servants and software developers to identify risks and potential of algorithmic services – and helps providers address upcoming EU regulations
Sari Antila appointed development manager at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture as Pekka Saarela leaves for retirement
Dean Tuomas Auvinen has appointed Sari Antila as development manager of the School of Arts, Design and Architecture starting from 1 April 2022.
Space 21 - a project space for experimentation!
Space 21, a project space for the use of all Aalto community, opened its doors in spring 2022
AllWell? - We care! – Study wellbeing questionnaire is open 16.2.-2.3.
Our students' well-being and ability to study are important for us. We research the state of study well-being by an annual questionnaire AllWell?. The questionnaire is open16.2.-2.3.2022 for our 1st year master's and 2nd year bachelor's students.
