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What's Life 1.5 like? 鈥 Apply now for Designs for a Cooler Planet 2022 to showcase a sustainable future
The climate crisis and biodiversity loss call for radical new ideas. How does your work contribute to wiser consumption, climate solutions or a more sustainable working life? Designs for a Cooler Planet 2022 will present Aalto's most interesting projects to support sustainability 鈥 apply now!

From the margins to the top: How the School of Arts, Design and Architecture rose to the international forefront
New book Pro Arte Utili tells about leadership and vision guiding the change.

Novel quantum device design promises a regular flow of entangled electrons on demand
Quantum computer and many other quantum technologies rely on our ability to generate quantum entangled pairs of electrons. By dynamically controlling two quantum dots near a superconductor, researchers could time the extraction and splitting of entangled Cooper pairs from a superconductor.

Aalto University鈥疊ioinnovation鈥疌enter opens a call for鈥痜ive doctoral candidate鈥痯ositions鈥
Bioinnovation Center is looking for talented and exceptionally motivated students that are eager to pursue their doctoral studies in a鈥痬ultidisciplinary environment aiming at biobased material innovation.鈥疭tudents with any background that fits to one鈥痮f鈥痶he five projects described below鈥痑re encouraged to submit their application.鈥

KvarkenSat, the first small satellite in the Kvarken region, will be built in cooperation between Finns and Swedes
KvarkenSat is a joint small satellite between the Ostrobothnian provinces and V盲sterbotten, which is due to be launched into space in just over a year.

One of the most important characteristics of a researcher is tolerance for uncertainty
Assistant Professor Tomasz Kucner is researching, how and what robots can learn from the human behavior.

Sebastian J. Schlecht: Creating the perfect illusion in virtual reality
Professor Sebastian Schlecht is keen on music, mathematics and virtual reality.

Introducing the Aalto University Data Hub
All you need to find new data and get started with your next research or study project in one place!

SUMMER INTERNSHIPS AT THE FINANCE FACULTY
We are primarily looking for students majoring in Finance, but we also welcome applications from students with other quantitatively oriented backgrounds. Completion of a Bachelor鈥檚 thesis or other relevant experience is a plus.

Finnish researchers developed mini-breast cancer as a new weapon against the most common type of breast cancer
Breast cancer researchers from the University of Helsinki and material scientists from Aalto University have jointly developed a gel-grown 鈥渕ini-breast cancer鈥 that will help uncover more effective treatments against hormone-dependent breast cancer.

The role of wastewater treatment plants in the global health threat of 21st century
The spread of antibiotic resistance is a global health threat addressed by the WHO. One of the ways the antibiotic resistance spreads is through wastewater. Researchers from Water & Environmental Engineering group studied the spread of antibiotic resistance from wastewater treatment plants in Finland and found out that more needs to be done to address the issue.
Assistant professor Yu Xiao: Making daily activities easier with Extended Reality
Daily life is the ground for the research projects by assistant professor Yu Xiao and her group at Aalto University.

Mets盲hovi officially becomes a radio observatory in Finnish and Swedish as well
The term 鈥榬adio observatory鈥 replaces 鈥榬adio research station鈥 in Mets盲hovi's new Finnish and Swedish names.

New artificial intelligence assisted device could soon replace traditional stethoscope and significantly expedite right diagnosis
The Aalto-originated startup Vital Signs will present their innovation at the Slush 100 pitching competition next week.

Aalto and InstituteQ are partners of Quantum Jungle - The Dance of Quanta exhibition
The exhibition will open on Friday November 26 in Palazzo Blu museum, Pisa, Italy. Quantum Jungle is an interactive art installation visualising the fascinating world of quantum particles.

Understanding the nanostructure formation in block copolymer thin film
Recent MMD publications (Multifunctional Materials Design)

Bioinnovation Center鈥檚 research will focus on sustainable textiles and packaging
Aalto University's Bioinnovation Center has chosen 5 interdisciplinary projects to launch its doctoral school in 2022. The projects aim at innovations in the fields of sustainable textiles and packaging.

Towards more sustainable space research 鈥 The Foresail-1 satellite will be launched in spring 2022
Foresail-1 is the first satellite from the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Research of Sustainable Space. The Centre of Excellence is studying space conditions with the aim of developing more sustainable small satellites that do not turn into space debris.

Unique virtual laboratory predicts environmental effects of city traffic
Researchers from the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI develop more sustainable intelligent traffic by bringing together simulators from different fields.

Physicists find a new powerful method to explore phase transitions in strongly correlated quantum systems
Far-from-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems is one of the most active research areas in physics, with important connections to emerging quantum computers.
