Research & Art
Our research focuses on seven key areas combining four core competences in the fields of digitalisation, materials, arts, design and business together with three grand challenges related to energy, living environment, and health.
Research and art: Driving excellence
We create world-class clusters of excellence and bring talent together.
Our long-term purpose:
We excel and make breakthroughs in and across science, art, technology and business.
Our current focus of development:
Driving excellence. We create world-class clusters of excellence and bring talent together.
The planned actions:
We cultivate excellence in our strongest areas of research and art, both existing and emerging.
We develop and support selected physical and digital infrastructures.
We collaborate to amplify our impact in a changing global landscape.
Our current key research areas
Our strength is excellence and increasing impact on our chosen key areas in research, art and education and a unique combination of collaborating disciplines.
News related to research and art
Glitch artwork challenges to see art in a different light
Laura Könönen's sculpture was unveiled on 14 October at the Otaniemi campus.
Nanoparticles in Functional Textiles
Dr. Md. Reazuddin Repon, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Textile Chemistry Group, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University, has contributed as an editor to a newly published academic volume titled “Nanoparticles Integrated Functional Textiles”.
Carbon-based radicals at the frontier of solar cell technology
Could a single unpaired electron change the future of solar energy?