Metallurgy is history and future: Enabling true circular economy of metals
Tenured Professors' Installation Talks
Aalto University is celebrating its new tenured professors with popular talks by our new Associate & Full level tenure track professors. In the short videos, the new professors enlighten us with personal insights and tell us why they're passionate about their field.
The academic traditions all over the world date back to the birth of first universities in Bologna, Paris and Oxford in the 11th and 12th centuries. One of the essential traditions is the ceremony appointing new professors to the highest-ranking position of teaching in the university. The word professor stems from the Latin verb profiteri, which means to declare publicly, to acknowledge, to profess. Universities have named the events in various ways; at Aalto University we call ours the installation talks.
One of the tasks at Aalto University is to find ways to solve challenging, and often global issues. These videos present some aspects of professors’ work for a more sustainable future. We hope that viewing these videos you will find a similar passion to science and research as our professors have.
Watch the videos on Aalto's YouTube channel
Learning from strategic investments – Post-completion auditing
Women’s way to the top – Insights into networking and career
Cities that need less transport
Costs of job loss – Effects on labor market outcomes, family and health
Climate change prevention – Why metals matter
Entrepreneurship and community recovery after natural disasters
Just another day — An architect could influence
The human-side of strategy making – Lessons from Nokia and other companies
Towards responsible electrochemical energy storage
Using models for long term energy system analysis
Multinational corporations and sustainability partnerships
Sustainable high-strength marine structures
Amazing world of fibers – Applications
Global food future – Opportunities towards sustainable food supply
DNA-based nanoscale devices
Computational mechanics of microarchitectural solids and structures
What can we do with computers?
Rock fracture mechanics – and its applications in rock engineering
Distributed and networked control systems
Data availability makes difference in mechatronics design & operation
Choreographers of the brain – From brain dynamics to digital therapeutics
HVAC – technology for healthy buildings and sustainable society
Boundaries we live by
THMC modelling of bentonite – Nuclear waste repositories safety barriers
Sustainable fashion futures – Scale, time, aesthetics, responsibility, collaboration
Strategy, uncertainty and COVID-19
Ilkka Niemelä, PresidentOur purpose is to build a better world and a sustainable future through cooperation between experts from diverse fields.
Pathway to more information
Read more about Aalto tenure track career system. The objective is to support professors’ academic freedom and to reach world class in research and/or artistic and professional work, teaching and activity in scientific community and academic leadership.
Our research focuses on seven key areas combining four core competences in the fields of ICT, materials, arts, design and business together with three grand challenges related to energy, living environment, and health.
Tenure track
Aalto University’s tenure track career system offers a well-supported and clear career path for professor-level academics towards a permanent professorship.
Research & Art
Our research focuses on seven key areas combining four core competences in the fields of digitalisation, materials, arts and design, and business together with three grand challenges related to energy, living environments, and health.