Current news
New journal subscriptions
The following journals are now available for Aalto University researchers and students:
Starting Point of Wellbeing open for students in September
Starting Point of Wellbeing, born as a part of study wellbeing initiative, will be opened on September 10th 2018 in Otaniemi.
A record-breaking year for the summer accelerator
The student-led Kiuas Accelerator programme was organised for the ninth time. This year, the number of applications was higher than ever before.
Aalto students win awards
Our students of fashion, film and design have been internationally victorious during the summer.
Bodily sensations give rise to conscious feelings
A Finnish research group from the University of Turku, University of Tampere and Aalto University has mapped the organisation of human conscious feelings and found them to cluster into five major categories: positive emotions, negative emotions, cognitive functions, somatic states, and illnesses.
Aalto becomes a member of the CFA Institute University Affiliation Program
Aalto has been welcomed into the Program, which is widely considered the investment profession’s most rigorous credentialing scheme.
Carbon in colour: First-ever coloured thin films of nanotubes created
Researchers present a technique to produce large quantities of pristine single-walled carbon nanotubes in select shades of the rainbow. The secret is a fine-tuned fabrication process—and a small dose of CO2.
Marita Niemelä Alumna of the Year 2018 of the School of Chemical Engineering
Curiosity and constant learning are the driving forces for the Vice President, Engineering and Technology at Neste Engineering Solutions Oy.
Berzelius Prize for Professor Riikka Puurunen
The Swedish Catalysis Society presented the prize to Professor Puurunen in Copenhagen on 27 August 2018.
Finance shines in the cloud in the Capstone course
The study provided valuable and forward-looking insights into the unchartered territory of financial cloud
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Aalto makes an impact in design research
Aalto people made important research contributions in the Design Research Society DRS conference in Limerick, Ireland.
Aalto University endowment portfolio returned -0.7% in the first half of 2018
The purpose of the endowment and its long-term strategy is to generate additional funding for top quality research and education.
Towards high-quality science education for all
European-wide research project aims at fostering science learning outside the classroom.
What happens when you mix cellulose with wool or rice straw? CHEMARTS students spent the summer finding out
Students in this year’s CHEMARTS summer school have spent three months in the lab learning how to use biomaterials in fresh ways.
Aalto University and VTT launch a major innovation ecosystem aimed at doubling the value of forest industry
Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland signed a collaboration agreement on the CERES flagship programme.
Honeycomb metal-organic frameworks on graphene
Avijit's latest paper out in Nano Letters exploring the synthesis and electronic properties of 2D metal-organic frameworks on graphene.
Platform economy and global marketplaces are currently shaping the field of trade
The project supported by Business Finland took almost three years to complete and was concluded at the end of August.
Centre for Quantum Engineering funding awarded for four projects
A total of EUR 318 000 has been granted for project proposals that represent new openings, support emergence of new technologies, applications, and/or industrial collaboration.
Top tools for artificial intelligence and IT are presented to hundreds of conference visitors at Aalto University in August
The tools have been used to improve the safety of drug tests for children, and to understand the cosmos through galaxy clusters.
Satellite data help reveal the loss of tropical rainforests
A recent study piloted a new monitoring method that could help in detecting illegal deforestation and estimating CO2 emissions caused by forest loss.
