Current news
Ahti Salo is the Espoo Ambassador of 2018
Professor of systems analysis Ahti Salo and his research group have introduced mathematical models to help evaluate cyber security risks, among others
World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies Innovation Award to Sino-Finnish research on fuel cells
Professors Bin Zhu from China University of Geosciences and Peter Lund from Aalto University were awarded World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies Innovation Award for their work on advanced fuel cells.
Exponential survey starts from September onwards – emphasis on your wellbeing
Aalto employees are invited to participate in a research study conducted by Aalto University and Hintsa Performance.
Maintenance break in ESS system starting on Thursday 30 August 2018 at 4 PM
Maintenance break in ESS system starting on Thursday 30 August at 4 PM.
Messages to the President and leadership? Lunch meetings continue in September
Come to meet President Ilkka Niemelä and other members of Aalto leadership over a lunch:
Registrations ÄûÃʵ¼º½ Wellbeing Week's events start 3.9.
Find all the events in Inside.
Nearly half of residents in housing companies would like to acquire solar panels – spreading requires legislative amendment
Gaps in legislation are preventing the adoption of solar PV in Finnish housing companies.
M8 Art Space opens up a new series of exhibitions
Video works by Jemina Lindholm were selected as the first exhibition.
New journal subscriptions
The following journals are now available for Aalto University researchers and students:
Starting Point of Wellbeing open for students in September
Starting Point of Wellbeing, born as a part of study wellbeing initiative, will be opened on September 10th 2018 in Otaniemi.
A record-breaking year for the summer accelerator
The student-led Kiuas Accelerator programme was organised for the ninth time. This year, the number of applications was higher than ever before.
Aalto students win awards
Our students of fashion, film and design have been internationally victorious during the summer.
Bodily sensations give rise to conscious feelings
A Finnish research group from the University of Turku, University of Tampere and Aalto University has mapped the organisation of human conscious feelings and found them to cluster into five major categories: positive emotions, negative emotions, cognitive functions, somatic states, and illnesses.
Aalto becomes a member of the CFA Institute University Affiliation Program
Aalto has been welcomed into the Program, which is widely considered the investment profession’s most rigorous credentialing scheme.
Carbon in colour: First-ever coloured thin films of nanotubes created
Researchers present a technique to produce large quantities of pristine single-walled carbon nanotubes in select shades of the rainbow. The secret is a fine-tuned fabrication process—and a small dose of CO2.
Marita Niemelä Alumna of the Year 2018 of the School of Chemical Engineering
Curiosity and constant learning are the driving forces for the Vice President, Engineering and Technology at Neste Engineering Solutions Oy.
Berzelius Prize for Professor Riikka Puurunen
The Swedish Catalysis Society presented the prize to Professor Puurunen in Copenhagen on 27 August 2018.
Finance shines in the cloud in the Capstone course
The study provided valuable and forward-looking insights into the unchartered territory of financial cloud
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Aalto makes an impact in design research
Aalto people made important research contributions in the Design Research Society DRS conference in Limerick, Ireland.
Aalto University endowment portfolio returned -0.7% in the first half of 2018
The purpose of the endowment and its long-term strategy is to generate additional funding for top quality research and education.