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Three fascinating facts about space – which mystery would space researcher Joni Tammi like to understand?
When Joni Tammi was on the first grade, he gave his first school presentation about stars. It started a journey that led to a career in space research. But what was the brainwave he got during his studies on a course taught by astronomer Esko Valtaoja?

Aalto researchers’ bold initiatives receive more than €2 million in funding
The areas covered by the four research projects include the development of thermal energy storage and mobile magnetic resonance imaging technology.

The university's new decade started joyously
Almost 1300 people celebrated the 10-year-old Aalto – take a look at the photos!

In ten years, Aalto University has created a world-class centre of expertise
Aalto University has brought together science, art, technology and business at the Otaniemi campus and is now one of the world's leading universities in these key areas. Aalto celebrates its 10th anniversary on Wednesday 8 January 2020.

Academy Programme funding for research teams
The funded projects are linked from different perspectives on climate change.

New ecosystem launched to boost photo and radiation detector hardware development
VTT, Aalto University and industrial partners have started a joint effort to accelerate the development and commercialization of tailored high-performance detectors and systems for different application areas, ranging from medical imaging to environmental sensing.

The quietest place in Finland - Acoustics Lab renovation is complete
The laboratory and its office facilities were thoroughly refurbished.

Exploring the nanoscale world
This fall we followed students getting hands on experience in the most common methods used in micro and nanotechnology on the Micronova Laboratory course

Professor Tom Bäckström: Smart devices can eavesdrop and therefore we must study privacy
Social rules involving privacy should be considered in the design of speech interfaces.

Aalto is taking part of H2020 project TERAWAY
TERAWAY is a H2020 5GPPP Phase III project funded by the European Union coming as a technology intensive project aiming to develop a disruptive generation of THz transceivers for high-capacity BH and FH links in 5G networks.

Academy Professor Paavo Alku named IEEE Fellow
The world’s largest technical association IEEE elevates Professor Paavo Alku to the status of IEEE Fellow, which is the institute’s highest member grade. Alku is an Academy Professor at the Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics in the Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering.

Aalto International Talent Programme brings together international students and companies
Aalto International Talent Programme is organized by Aalto University Career Services. The programme supports the employment international degree students.

Kati Hagros, how is digitalisation visible at your home?
According ɫɫÀ²'s Chief Digital Officer, open-mindedness and a desire for experimentation keeps us up to date with digital progress.

Best Paper Award for Acoustics Lab Professor Sebastian J. Schlecht at WASPAA conference
The award was received at IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics. The study solves a more than fifty-year-old problem in artificial reverberation

Designs for a Cooler Planet returns in September 2020 — This is a university-wide open call
We are looking for research and solutions which address the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

Decorations for Aalto personnel on the Independence Day 2019
Kristiina Mäkelä, Ingmar Björkman and Martti Mäkelä receive the decoration of Commander of the Order of Lion.

Solutions innovated during the Digitalism Challenge course are put into practice
The Finnish Organic Association, Tapola Camphill Organic Farm and Fat Lizard Brewing Co. were very satisfied with the solutions created during the course.

The ESA Comet Interceptor enters mission analysis phase with significant Finnish contributions
A new Comet Interceptor mission was selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the early mission analysis phase. Comet Interceptor, planned to be launched in 2028, will study an entirely new comet which is flying through our Solar System for the first time.

A year in space! The Suomi 100 satellite has taken pictures of the atmosphere and auroras as well as studied space weather
Aalto University’s nanosatellite can continue to make its measurements for another ten years.

Data analytic methods being used to study Finnish parliamentary data and Finnish films
Projects funded by the Academy of Finland will study political and film data from 1907 onwards.
