Strong overall result: 27.5 million euros from the Research Council of Finland
A total of 52 Aalto researchers received Academy Research Fellowship and Academy Project funding. The total funding awarded 色色啦 University amounts to 27.5 million euros
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If we don't have any open positions but if you have clear interests and promising research or collaboration ideas, please send your CV and inquiries to Prof. Quan Zhou, email: quan.zhou@aalto.fi.
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Congratulations to Diluka Harischandra for a successful public defense for the Doctor of Science in Technology degree on December 12, 2024. It's also a great honor to have Dr. Aude Bolopion from the Femto-st Institute as the opponent. Cheers!
More information on the dissertation, titled "Manipulation of nonmagnetic particles and liquids on a programmable air-ferrofluid interface", can be found .
Dr. Houari Bettahar received Academy Research Fellow
Congratulations Dr. Houari Bettahar for the prestigious award of Academy Research Fellow from the Research Council of Finland.
Congratulations to Arthur Vieira for an excellent public defense for the Doctor of Science in Technology degree on June 7, 2024. It's also a great honor to have Dr Michael Kappl from MPI and Prof. Pasi Kallio from Tampere University as opponents. Cheers!
More information on the dissertation, titled "Wetting Characterization of Hydrophobic Opaque Surfaces and Micro Fibers", can be found .
Scientists harness the wind as a tool to move objects
New approach allows contactless or remote manipulation of objects by machines or robots.
Our paper "Droplet Probe for Characterization of Advancing and Receding Contact Angles of Single Fibers " has received the Best Conference Paper Award at the . The paper was authored by Arthur Vieira, Maja Vuckovac, Inge Schlapp-Hackl, Michael Hummel, and Quan Zhou.
Thanks to everyone who supported our work. Let's continue to learn and grow together.
Researchers mimic how water and wind create complex shapes in nature
No hands required: new study shows how particles can be directed into desired shapes with energy fields and smart algorithm.
Dr. Kourosh Latifi has been granted the Aalto University Dissertation Award 2021. Congratulations! The dissertation can be found .
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Prof. Quan Zhou received new funding from the Academy of Finland
We just received a new grant from the聽Academy of Finland, titled: 鈥淩obotic Magnetic Needle Characterization of Single Nanoparticle Uptake in Cells鈥, in cooperation with Prof.聽H茅lder Santos聽of the聽University of Helsinki.
Kourosh Latifi successfully defended his PhD thesis "Controlling the motion of particles on a vibrating plate using dynamic acoustic 铿乪lds"
Latifi graduates from the Robotic Instruments research group.
Artur Kopitca received a funded doctoral position from the Aalto ELEC Doctoral School
Our doctoral student Artur Kopitca has been granted a funded doctoral position at the Aalto ELEC Doctoral School.
Defence of dissertation in the field of Automation, Systems and Control Engineering, M.Sc. (Tech.) Kourosh Latifi
Title of the thesis is 鈥淐ontrolling the motion of particles on a vibrating plate using dynamic acoustic fields鈥
Defence of dissertation in the field of Automation, Systems and Control Engineering, M.Sc. (Tech.) Zoran Cenev
Title of the thesis is 鈥淧article Micromanipulation Using Single Magnetic Sources鈥
Aalto receives EUR 3.5 million funding for ICT research
The ICT 2023 programme funds 12 Aalto researchers.
The MARSS 2019 conference
The MARSS conference is an annual International conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales and will be held in July 1-5 at Maarintie 8 in Otaniemi campus.
A surprising experiment opens the path to new particle manipulation methods
Unexpected result from acoustics experiment could have applications in biomedical and microsystems research
Anton Paar Research Award to Robin Ras and Quan Zhou
Anton Paar Research Award to Robin Ras and Quan Zhou
Biomedical engineering
The biomedical engineering area mainly encompasses medical devices.
New microscope sets a record for visualizing surface wetting properties
The microscope is 1000 times more precise than current techniques, allowing the creation of wetting maps as a new concept for hydrophobic surface characterization.
The latest installation lectures available on video
Aalto University's newly tenured professors reveal the secrets of miniature robotics and optimizing human-computer interaction, among other things.
Researchers need a child-like mind and plenty of guts
Professor of microrobotics Quan Zhou operates invisible things that have a big impact.
Dances with waves: breakthrough in moving small objects using acoustics
By playing carefully constructed melodies, the scientists can simultaneously move multiple objects on the plate towards desired targets.
Three Joint SCI/ELEC Thematic Research Programmes Launched
Each programme to receive funding of 150 000 鈧 over three years.
Doctoral student Anastasiia Kravtcova: 鈥淒octoral studies can be a combination of a job, hobby and lifestyle鈥
The chance of making a societal impact motivated Anastasiia Kravtcova to pursue her doctoral studies and to dive into a groundbreaking topic in medical engineering at the School of Electrical Engineering.
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