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Aalto University boosts bold and new transdisciplinary research projects聽
13 interdisciplinary teams got internal seed funding for research that boldly pushes existing boundaries and contributes to creating a radically new kind of future
Artificial intelligence to assist the brain
Neuroscience and neurotechnology are gaining a fresh ally in the form of artificial intelligence, which can assess dementia risk and enhance the effectiveness of depression treatments.
Everyday choices: Ayush Bharti, can AI fix a dropped Wi-Fi connection?
This postdoctoral researcher boosts wireless communications with signal interaction models.
Finland's first science satellite, Foresail-1, is ready for space
The satellite and its key instruments will launch in summer 2022.
Aalto Internal Funding Call 2024 - For Cooperation Initiatives with the Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Aalto is offering financial support for cooperation initiatives with TUM for the year 2024.
A new course by AVP helps communicate impact to enhance your career
Impact With Research, a new course by Aalto Ventures Program, targets doctoral students, researchers and faculty who want to make an impact
Tough questions through computational geometry
S谩ndor Kisfaludi-Bak started as assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science in January. He is looking forward to collaborative research and illuminating the beauty of computational geometry to students and colleagues alike.
Aalto University鈥檚 art & design continues to excel as 6th in the world
Six of Aalto鈥檚 fields reached the top 100 in the prestigious QS ranking
Professor Emeritus Herbert Sixta: 鈥淭he most important task of a professor is to educate young people, to help them build their career鈥
After an extensive career in academia and the forest-based industries, Professor Herbert Sixta has retired. Having worked in Austria for 25 years, Sixta arrived 色色啦 in 2007, where his research in biorefineries helped create, among other things, the Ioncell process, a technology that turns used textiles, pulp, and paper into new textile fibres sustainably and without chemicals.
The Rule of Two helps making spaces sound better
Researchers developed the new acoustic measurement technique in a room with more acoustic combinations than there are ants on Earth.
Charlotte Zborowski and Pedro Silva start as Data Agents at the School of Chemical Engineering
Aalto research data management network has two new members, Charlotte Zborowski and Pedro Silva. Their aim is to support data management practices at the School of Chemical Engineering.
Viruses in the air? Researchers study how air cleaning devices, masks, and UV light reduce risk of infection
The project is aimed at finding workable and cost-effective ways to protect offices.
A new type of hand prosthesis learns from the user 鈥 and the user learns from the prosthesis
New research enables more functional and robust robotic prostheses.
Unite! presents its strategic roadmap towards open science in the digital age
The roadmap includes objectives, recommendations and actions that Aalto and the other universities of the alliance can promote to make Unite! a European driver of open science and innovation by 2023.
Research project develops electrically controlled artificial molecular machines
Electronically controlled molecular machines would be faster as well as easier to manufacture, as they would not need to rely on sophisticated chemical synthesis.
Ending energy imports from Russia could cut other electricity imports to Finland 鈥 model shows what chain reaction could mean for the security of supply
A risk analysis by Aalto University shows that electricity supply could stop far short of demand: in the worst-case scenario, the gap could be more than 2,500 hours per year.
CEST research acknowledged at Physics Days
Manuel Kuchelmeister received the best poster award at Physics Days 2022
How an exciting engineering challenge drew a physicist into solar painting
A scientist and an artist worked together to produce a painting that produces electricity, as well as a transdisciplinary podcast. Next, they want to let audiences see all the beautiful things that researchers are normally too shy to showcase.
African European scientific partnership to tackle future critical materials shortages
A collaborative African European project RESTART dedicated to the implementation of a full value chain for recycling end-of-life lithium-ion batteries and photovoltaic solar panels has begun.
Fresh perspective on sustainable development at summer school
The application period for summer 2022 is open. Come learn with us!
