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Janne Lindqvist is the first person in Finland to receive a Mozilla Research Grant – supports making the internet a better place
The Mozilla Foundation awards researchers with unrestricted gifts, which makes them highly competitive
Creative concepts for travelling by land
Reducing flying is an easy way to decrease your personal carbon footprint. The Matka Nordic Travel Fair 2020 showed new solutions for how to encourage travel by land.
Professor Peter D. Lund awarded high Chinese Honour
Renewable energy expert granted Jiangsu Award and Medal of Friendship
Janne Lindqvist: You can’t help if you stay in the ivory tower
This sociable professor of computer science knows how to forge his own path and trusts his instinctive curiosity towards different research topics.
You do not need to speak Finnish to get a summer job
More than 70% of the employers that participated in the Aalto Summer Job Day are also happy to hire foreigners who do not speak Finnish.
Feeding the world without wrecking the planet is possible
Almost half of current food production is harmful to our planet – causing biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation and water stress. But as world population continues to grow, can that last?
Power outage in Otaniemi area
There was a power outage in Otaniemi area. The issue is now resolved and repaired.
Triumph, embrace or offset? Entrepreneurs have different storytelling styles for presenting business closure
New pioneering research shows that entrepreneurs communicate to strengthen their professional image and stakeholder relationships - and avoid blaming others.
Julia Lohmann: ‘We know too much and do too little’
Lohmann’s magnificent seaweed pavilion won the sustainable design category for Dezeen Awards 2020.
Aalto students from past to present: Transition from student life to career life
As a student who is just starting to find his first steps in the industry, Aalto student Mcha Khamis was wondering what kind of skills were needed for him to fit into the job market.
Tutkain 2020-2022 project provides Finnish digital newspapers and magazines for research use
Researchers will be able to use Finnish newspapers and magazines from 1930–2018 digitised by the National Library.
Student team used service design tools to produce new ideas for look and functionality of Posti Head Office
The practical implementation of the ideas will begin early this year.
How sensitive can your quantum detector be?
A new device measures the tiniest energies in superconducting circuits, an essential step for quantum technology
School of Science Diversity and Equality Plan for 2020 published
Equality plan available on our governance page follow-on from discussions from the end of last year
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?
New appointments at the School of Chemical Engineering
New appointments have been made at the School of Chemical Engineering.
Nominees for the Metex Awards announced
The four Metex Prize nominees are graduates at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Technology Industries of Finland's Centennial Foundation awards the Metex Prize 23 January.
Aalto nuclear fusion expert becomes ITER Scientist Fellow
Dr Antti Snicker becomes the first Finnish Scientist Fellow at ITER, modelling transport of fast particles in tokamak plasmas
Matti Kaivola: Top research requires a communality that stretches across the generations
Top research is enabled by good infrastructure that can be utilised by as many researchers as possible. This helps towards obtaining international and competitive funding.
