ºÚÁÏÍø

News

New heads of departments and deputy department heads appointed at the School of Engineering

Pedro Vilaça, Raine ²Ñä²Ô³Ù²â²õ²¹±ô´Ç and Leena Korkiala-Tanttu will begin their terms as heads of departments in January 2022.
Aalto University

New heads of departments and their deputies have been appointed from January 2022. The department heads are members of the school's management team.

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Professor Pedro Vilaça, head of department
Professor Martti Larmi, deputy department head

Professor Pedro Vilaça is an experienced leader and has established the Advanced Manufacturing Materials (AM2) group by combining both production engineering and materials engineering research groups. He is also an internationally well-known and very innovative researcher with numerous patents and research-to-business (TUTLI) grants.

Department of Built Environment

Professor Raine ²Ñä²Ô³Ù²â²õ²¹±ô´Ç, head of department
Professor Harri Koivusalo, deputy department head.

Raine ²Ñä²Ô³Ù²â²õ²¹±ô´Ç’s research approach is multidisciplinary; he is professor of strategic urban planning and Adjunct Professor at the University of Oulu, specialized in planning theory and communicative planning. He worked several years as Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies YTK in the Helsinki University of Technology. ²Ñä²Ô³Ù²â²õ²¹±ô´Ç is also member of the Academy of Finland Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering.

Department of Civil Engineering

Professor Leena Korkiala-Tanttu, head of department
Professor Heidi Salonen, deputy department head.

Professor Leena Korkiala-Tanttu has extensive experience collaborating with Finnish Industry. Her research activities include pavement performance, ground improvement, BIM in infraconstruction, nuclear waste disposal and environmental impacts of infra construction. She has worked six years as deputy department head of the Department of Civil Engineering. She has also been the Alderman of the Guild of Civil Engineers IK.

  • Updated:
  • Published:
Share
URL copied!

Read more news

A person wearing a black long-sleeved shirt sits in a modern office space, with blurred office background.
Appointments Published:

Assistant Professor Jiancheng Yang improves healthcare with AI

Yang is one of the nine newly recruited professors joining the ELLIS Institute Finland as principal investigators. 
Assistant professor Lauri Uotinen in the Underground Research Laboratory. The rock wall behind him features two automatically detectable markers used in photogrammetry
Appointments Published:

Meet Lauri Uotinen, assistant professor of rock engineering

Lauri Uotinen combines photogrammetry and rock engineering to create new insights into underground spaces.
Person standing outdoors in autumn, wearing a grey hoodie and green jacket. Trees in the background with orange leaves.
Appointments Published:

Introducing Qi Chen: Trustworthy AI requires algorithms that can handle unexpected situations

AI developers must focus on safer and fairer AI methods, as the trust and equality of societies are at stake, says new ELLIS Institute Finland principal investigator Qi Chen
A person wearing a light grey hoodie stands indoors with a brick wall and green plants in the background.
Appointments, University Published:

The research puzzle of when humans and AI don’t see eye to eye

Francesco Croce works on robustness in multi-modal foundation models