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Professor Arja Karhumaa: ‘We need to better understand how texts are viewed’
Introducing our tenured professors: professor Arja Karhumaa explores the relationship between language and the visual form of a text –how a text looks at any given moment, and how it affects us as human beings.
The short film filmed in Aalto tells about a student's difficult choice
The shooting of the short film Compassion III, funded by Aalto University's Oasis of Radical Wellbeing project, began in Otaniemi on March 17th. The premier is on May 30th as a part of the Green Minds, Healthy Hearts – Social Sustainability Symposium in Aalto University's Harald Herlin Learning Center.
Are you our new CHEM Data Agent?
Apply to be the next Data Agent from the School of Chemical Engineering.
Avatars and genuine interaction
Future maternity and child health clinics and positive birth experiences may be built on 3D-video conferences and avatars but also traditional child health clinic cards and genuine human interaction.
Sahar Babaeipour dreams of entrepreneurship – but before that, she wants to graduate as a doctor
The doctoral research conducted by Sahar Babaeipour, a doctoral researcher at Aalto University’s Bioinnovation Center, aims at a more sustainable packaging industry.
Matteo Iannacchero, a developer of bio-based yarns: ‘I value the freedom of science’
In his doctoral research conducted at Aalto University’s Bioinnovation Center, Iannacchero uses machine learning to develop ecologically sustainable electronic yarns. This is an opportunity to come up with something completely new.
Kaisu Savola: ‘The 1960s and 1970s saw a change in the values of Finnish design’
I claim series presents Kaisu Savola, who explores a generation of design students and design professionals in Finland, in the 1960s and 1970s, as they became aware of the two contradictory faces of design.
DNA origami boosts electrochemical biosensor performance
New results provide a platform for more efficient, selective, and sensitive DNA biosensors that can be used in detecting various pathogens and diseases.
Pharmaca, VTT, Aalto University and Finnish Centre for Client and Patient Safety launch Innovation Ecosystem Project for Medication Safety
Aim of project is to improve knowledge of medication safety and promote use of technical solutions supporting medication safety in different sectors and organisations
Academy of Finland autumn call moved to January – Aalto internal deadline December 7th
The deadline for the next application round of Academy Project Funding, Academy Research Fellowships and Clinical Researcher Funding will be on 17.1.2024. Aalto has an internal deadline on 7.12.2023.
Researchers take a step towards turning interactions that normally ruin quantum information into a way of protecting it
A new method for predicting the behavior of quantum devices provides a crucial tool for real-world applications of quantum technology
Next-gen AI designers won’t crush human creativity
Researchers are developing truly helpful AI systems that improve designs while keeping humans in the loop
Introducing new professors at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture
New tenured professors present their field and research on a video.
Scientists unravel the effects of new medication for advanced melanoma with the help of AI
Researchers at Aalto University, the University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center have studied how a completely new treatment option affects the immune system in patients with advanced melanoma.
Open call for Heureka X Aalto joint exhibition – make creativity in research visible!
Research breakthroughs can be radically creative. Make your research process visible to 40 000 visitors in Heureka – submit your proposal to the joint exhibition by 30 April 2023.
EIT Culture & Creativity information event
Welcome to information event for EIT Culture & Creativity.
IMPRESS H2020 webinar: New high value plant-based products from IMPRESS
Professor Monika Österberg's group participated in the EU-funded Research & Innovation project IMPRESS.
Camilla Andersson: ‘Discriminatory norms in society can be renegotiated through design’
I claim series presents researchers and their recent dissertations at School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Overview of Aalto's open access publications 2022
In 2022, Aalto’s researchers published more publications open access than ever before. The overview of the year 2023 will be published by the end of February 2024.
Staff Scientist Mika Jalava promotes RDM in his research group
Jalava uses his background as an Aalto Data Agent in his new role.
