Tenure track
Aalto University’s tenure track career system offers a well-supported and clear career path for professor-level academics towards a permanent professorship.
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.
Contact
Jussi Nissilä
Manager, Health and well-being, Key research area, Aalto Networking Platform
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The GeneCellNano flagship is hosted by Aalto, Universities of Eastern Finland, Helsinki, Oulu, and Finnish Red Cross Blood Service.
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.
Featured research bodies
Aalto Brain Centre
Strategic initiative of neuroscience and neurotechnology
Sotera is a research unit focusing on basic technology in the social and health sector: design and construction of buildings, related telecommunications technology, information technology and automation of operations as well as instrument technology.
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