FCAI Special Interest Group: AI for Health
Key Research Area: Health and well-being
Aalto University’s expertise in health and well-being is broad-based, with strong clusters of research groups such as in medical devices, health AI, neuroscience, and care-facility architecture. We engage in deep collaboration with bedside and other R&D partners, including for already 45 years with the Helsinki and Uusimaa provincial hospital district HUS.
Health and well-being is one of Aalto University’s seven key research areas. The university has a strong, decades-long track record in health and well-being (H&W), in both research results and in facilitating adoption and commercialization. Indeed, at Aalto University, the basic research results that we pursue are being developed into innovations, applications, and services for end users, with several notable success stories, including from the earliest decades of H&W research. In this way, we are constantly making efforts to respond to societal needs.
Within our internal health and well-being (H&W) community, we have the following clusters of expertise.
- Devices and related methods and analytical tools
- Neuroscience
- Bio- and chemical technologies
- AI and data science
- Architecture, buildings, and design
- Management and economics
The pages linked from above describe each expertise cluster and list the professors primarily associated with that cluster.
The Aalto Networking Platform brings together our researchers and external parties for multidisciplinary collaboration in the area of health and well-being.
Interested in joining us? Read more about our tenure track career system.
Upcoming events
Health Design 2026 Conference
Health tech and service innovation conference connecting clinicians, researchers, investors and startups across the Nordic, Baltic and wider European ecosystem.
13th Science Factory: TMS–EEG Summer School and Workshop
The Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering at Aalto University School of Science will organize the 13th Science Factory: TMS–EEG Summer School and Workshop, on June 1st – 6th, 2027. The main venue this year is Hotel Nuuksio at the beautiful Nuuksio National Park in rural Espoo, Finland. Science Factory gives researchers starting out in the field of TMS–EEG an opportunity to deepen their understanding and network with top researchers within the international TMS–EEG community.
eCAADe2027 Conference: Symbiotic Ecologies - Designing Across Species, Data, and Time
eCAADe 2027 Conference will be hosted by Aalto University in August 2027.Latest news in this area
Mind & Study - toolbox for being well in studies (3cr) coming up
Popular course "Mind & Study - toolbox for being well in studies" will be organized in Finnish, English and Swedish in the 2nd and 4th period!
Take advantage of UniSport’s autumn campaign and explore the news
Autumn campaign and affordable membership for Aalto University students and staff!
UniSport services at Aalto University facilities in autumn 2026
UniSport services for students and staff
Welcome to the Friends Program! Fall 2026
Want to make friends in Finland? If your answer is yes, then the Friends Program is perfect for you! We are looking for both Finnish and international students to join.Flagships and Centres of Excellence
The GeneCellNano flagship is hosted by Aalto, Universities of Eastern Finland, Helsinki, Oulu, and Finnish Red Cross Blood Service.
LIBER aims to create dynamic and soft hybrid materials with capability to learn, adapt or respond to the environment.
Departments in this area
Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
We study system-level dynamic functions of the human brain, mind and body.
Department of Computer Science
We are an internationally-oriented community and home to world-class research in modern computer science.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation is an ecosystem where scientists and engineers from different fields of microsystems, electrical engineering and automation work together to solve the most challenging scientific problems.
Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems
Enabling bio and circular economy
Featured research bodies and networks
Aalto Brain Centre
Strategic initiative of neuroscience and neurotechnology
Biodesign Finland improves medical care with a novel entrepreneurial program for selected interdisciplinary teams and creates new business.
Infrastructure
Aalto NeuroImaging (ANI) Infrastructure
ANI research infrastructure houses three functional neuroimaging modalities, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at Advanced Magnetic Imaging (AMI) Centre, magnetoencephalography (MEG) at MEG Core and Aalto Behavioral Laboratory (ABL).
BioMag is a brain imaging laboratory at the Helsinki University Hospital co-hosted by Aalto and University of Helsinki.
Science-IT
Infrastructure for high-level computational research.
Micronova
Tietotie 3
Health Technology Research Infrastructure
The Health Technology Research Infrastructure consists of 13 laboratories at the Otaniemi campus and is part of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation. The laboratories provide high-quality medical technology equipment to several research groups and for teaching purposes in the Health Technology Engineering Programme.
Contact
Jussi Nissilä
Manager, Health and well-being, Key research area, Aalto Networking Platform