125
results for
News, Careers, Dissertations, Research, academic career, doctoral students, All Doctoral Programmes, doctoral candidates, tohtorikoulutus, doctoral education, doctoral theses
Electron Physics group embraces open data
A research group from the School of Electrical Engineering (ELEC) is changing its attitude towards open science. In addition to ensuring the open accessibility of published journal articles, they are now embracing a wider scope of open science principles.

New Oxford University Press open access agreement
Aalto affiliated corresponding authors can publish their articles without the open access fee (APC) or with 15% discount.

TTT4HPC - Tuesday Tools & Techniques for High Performance Computing
Do you use supercomputers in your research work? Are you curious about making your computing faster and more efficient? Join us for TTT4HPC: four self-contained episodes on best practices in High Performance Computing. This is a great chance to enhance your computational skills. What you will learn is also used a lot outside academia whenever large scale computations are needed.

Changes in the international press monitoring of ACRIS
ACRIS has had two integrations for monitoring domestic and international media. The media monitoring maps the visibility of Aalto University's researchers in international and domestic media.
AI-powered personalized medicine is on the horizon
People have to be in the loop when machine learning is adapted for medical use.

Provide feedback on defects in the assessment practices of scientific journals
Publication Forum collects experiences of defects in the quality assessment practices of scientific journals by all publishers. Feedback given by March 25, 2024, will be included in the spring evaluation, but feedback can also be provided later.

Significant grants for science from the Finnish Cultural Foundation
A total of thirty individuals and research groups from Aalto University received grants from the Finnish Cultural Foundation for science and art. Professors Harri Lipsanen and Zhipei Sun and their team, were awarded a large grant to develop electronic components mimicking the structure and function of the human brain. Among the grantees is also Professor Mikko Alava, whose team is developing water-resistant foams as substitutes for plastic using AI-based methods.

Overview of Aalto's open access publications 2023
91 % of Aalto's scientific journal articles published in 2023 are available open access.

New Finnish doctoral program in AI launching in 2024
A national consortium across 10 universities will educate 100 new PhDs in artificial intelligence research.

Aalto granted 178 positions in doctoral education pilot
Most of the positions are in Finnish flagship programme areas

Doctoral research is shedding new light on recycling
A research collaboration with industry partners is improving the recycling of milk and juice cartons

Season’s Greetings 2023 from FCAI
FCAI wants to attract the best talent to Europe and Finland to bolster artificial intelligence competency

Janne Naapuri, PhD, received the Gustaf Komppa Dissertation Prize
Gust. Kompa Dissertation Prize 2023 of the Finnish Chemical Society was awarded to Janne Naapuri, PhD, from Aalto University and Jussi Isokuortti, PhD, from Tampere University of Technology.
More than 200 journals will be downgraded to level 0 in the Publication Forum from the beginning of 2024
Downgraded journals are published by more than 160 publishers. During the spring 2024, the panels of the Publication Forum will review the journals of MDPI, Frontiers and Hindawi. The journals should not be evaluated solely by the publisher, but consideration should be given to the choice of the publication channel.

Competetive funding to enhance doctoral education in Finland 2024-2027
In the years 2024–2027, the Ministry of Education and Culture will finance a doctoral education pilot. The call opens on the 15th November and closes on the 29th November. Aalto has an internal procedure for the applications.

Leonardo Fierro: Sharing experiences for a better doctoral student life
'Now I’m less fearful of failing. I know how to put things into perspective. It was a good lesson to learn that failing is part of the process of succeeding.'

Rahul Mangayil appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems
Rahul Mangayil has been appointed five-year fixed term Assistant Professor position in the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems as of 1 November 2023. The field of the professorship is Bioprocess Engineering.

Aalto Techsperts showcases research from tech schools on social media
Aalto Research is now Aalto Techsperts. Follow the joint account of the Aalto tech schools on Twitter (X).

Completing a doctoral degree alongside work – the thesis opened the doors to the product and technology development of a deep-tech company
Karita Kinnunen-Raudaskoski and Jani Lehmonen have both graduated as doctors of chemical engineering from Aalto University and for them, writing a doctoral thesis alongside regular work meant long hours but was also highly rewarding.
