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Short interruptions in the operation of access tags and doors
A system update will cause the access tags and doors on Otaniemi campus 16.-20.12.2024

Aalto fundraising campaign appearing online and in the streets from January onwards
The campaign is on and every donor and every euro counts 鈥 see below how you can get involved

Twisted multiferroics discovery makes new kinds of topological spintronic devices possible
Research into moir茅 patterns in two-dimensional van der Waals materials provides a new way to engineer quantum matter that may lead to more energy-efficient memory storage and improved quantum technologies

President's letter 鈥 Let鈥檚 celebrate the new year together as Aalto turns 15
As the year draws to a close, Ilkka Niemel盲 reminds us of the importance of downtime for resting up and being in the company of family, friends and loved ones.

SCI Awards 2024 celebrate excellent work and great people at our school
Check out whose outstanding work was acknowledged this year!

A journey from Aalto to leadership and entrepreneurship
Anastasiia Glebova, Co-Founder of Datu and Analytics Product Owner at Konecranes, discusses how her education in the Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) program at Aalto University provided her with the necessary tools to excel in leadership roles and launch her own startup.

New financial system Abacus to go live in January 2025
Rondo, Raindance, QlikView and Ada will be replaced by Abacus. Please find information about the change below.

Finnish Academy of Science and Letters awards V盲is盲l盲 Prize to Associate Professor Eveliina Peltola
Peltola鈥檚 research seeks to understand the mathematics behind theories of physics

Creativity supported boxing and vice versa
Eva Wahlstr枚m, an Aalto alum who has boxed for 25 years, shared her memories of the people and experiences that were ultimately more important to her than success and medals

Research funding to develop energy-efficient computing and early diagnostics of corneal diseases
The funding granted by the Technology Industries of Finland Centennial Foundation for two Aalto projects totals nearly 1.3 million euros

Apply to Designs for a Cooler Planet by 27 January, 2025
Enhance the impact of your research by presenting it to broad groups outside the university. Aaltonian, apply and show how your research or project is changing the world.

"Bring your child to work day" 2024 at the Department of Applied Physics
Find out about a fun morning spent making ice cream for children hosted by the Department of Applied Physics

Board discussed the University Preview 2024 outcome and made decisions on financial matters
Prior to the meeting the board and Aalto Management Team had a joint discussion on the results of the university

We might feel love in our fingertips 鈥撯 but did the Ancient Mesopotamians?
A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient Mesopotamian region (within modern day Iraq) experienced emotions in their bodies thousands of years ago, analysing one million words of the ancient Akkadian language from 934-612 BC in the form of cuneiform scripts on clay tablets.

Professor Risto Ilmoniemi Awarded as Espoo Ambassador 2024
This recognition highlights Professor Ilmoniemi's significant contributions to bringing and organising international scientific congresses and summer schools in Finland, Espoo, and abroad

New origami packaging technology creates sustainable and eye-catching alternatives to conventional packing materials
Origami packaging enables completely new properties for cartonboard, making it an excellent alternative to, for example, plastic and expanded polystyrene in packaging. The aesthetics of the material have also garnered interest from designers.

Quantum physics professor searches for exotic qubit alternatives with new European funding
Aalto University physics professor Jose Lado will use this funding to engineer a new type of topological quantum material that could have applications for quantum bit, or 鈥渜ubit,鈥 development for noise-resilient topological quantum computation.

Independence Day decorations for Aalto personnel
The President of Finland awards decorations 色色啦 University employees on the Finnish Independence Day. Congratulations!

Aalto computer scientists in NeurIPS 2024
Department of Computer Science papers accepted to the conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
