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Professors Jukka Manner, Jarno Limnéll and Matti Rossi on the list of influential IT figures 2015
Each year the 100 most significant topical influential figures are put on the list.
Workshop on Translocation of polymer through nanopores
Translocation of polymer through nanopores: Interplay between theory, simulations and experiments
8-9 Feb 2016, at Learning Hub, Otakaari 1.
8-9 Feb 2016, at Learning Hub, Otakaari 1.
Aalto Service Factory developed service-related research and education
Activities at Aalto Service Factory will cease at the end of 2015.
Antenna placement for hockey puck transmitter studied at corporate collaboration course
It will be possible to use the results to make a functioning prototype hockey puck that uses the interior positioning system.
2015 Best Physics Doctoral Dissertation and Lecturer of the Year prizes awarded
The awards for doctoral dissertations are granted in recognition of research. This year a Lecturer of the Year prize was awarded for the first time.
Accelerating the Game Changers!
Another trailblazer year for Aalto Start-Up Center
Critical catalyst materials research receives funding from Horizon 2020
The research aims to provide alternatives to critical metals used in certain chemical reactions and energy conversions.
Ultra-narrow metallic armchair graphene nanoribbons
Amina's paper on ultra-narrow metallic armchair graphene nanoribbons out in Nature Communications
Changes in the Otaniemi campus area
Due to construction work on the building Väre, Otaniementie closes to traffic between Vuorimiehentie and Tietotie. Bus services on alternate routes.
Väisälä Award to Mika Sillanpää
Sillanpää was awarded for his research contributions. The award is worth 15 000 euro.
No more chargeable information retrievals or trainings
The Aalto University library will stop giving chargeable information retrievals and trainings from the beginning of the year 2016.
Aalto University and H&M collaboration sends three students to Stockholm
One of this autumn’s projects culminated in three textile and fashion design students being selected for internship at H&M’s design office.
Funding for Finland-India educational collaboration
The project is coordinated by Prof. Robin Ras from Aalto University School of Science.
Aalto Magazine focuses on the theme of global business operations
Aalto University Magazine 15 examines international business activities and related education in a changing global operating environment.
Professor of Energy Technology and Energy Economics Sanna Syri focuses on mitigating climate change
The promises made by countries to reduce emissions are not sufficient to limit warming to two degrees, let alone to the 1.5 degrees.
Graphene nanoribbons get metallic
Researchers at Aalto University have succeeded in experimentally realizing metallic graphene nanoribbons that are only 5 carbon atoms wide.
Finland is a pioneer in teaching coding at schools in Europe
A MOOC in coding directed at teachers received enthusiastic feedback from participants.
It is not only the economy that is shaken up by platforms
A new research project is looking for ways by which Finland would come out as a winner from a radical transformation of the society.
Bioeconomy night at Heureka made an attendance record
Aalto University was one of the organizers of a one-day-event called "Biotalouden yö".
Biodesign Finland brings new solutions to the hospital world
An interdisciplinary team will develop biomedical technologies that can be commercialised.