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Metals needed for climate solutions – will what we have be enough?
Metal recovery and production processes using secondary raw materials must be developed and awareness of the need for recycling increased.
Magazine issue focuses on artificial intelligence
Hot off the press, Aalto University Magazine 23 takes a look at AI.
Tackling sustainability challenges of runaway urbanization and water shortages
What can be done to make future megacities sustainable? How to guarantee resources like access to water for tens of millions urban dwellers? Asian Studies Days tackled sustainable development challenges of urbanization in Asia on October 17 at Aalto University.
Nobel laureates: Common good requires incentives, high-quality education and freedom of choice
Money follows the best people and ideas, said Professor Bengt Holmström in the opening ceremony of Helsinki Graduate School of Economics. Professor Jean Tirole expected courage from politicians to admit that preventing climate change will require financial investment. I
Environmental issues get form by ceramic art
Finnish ceramic artists visualise land contamination in Venice research pavilion.
Investigating the secrets of neural networks
Researcher Miika Aittala applies AI tools known as neural networks on graphics problems at MIT in Boston.
Can smart devices really understand us?
Virtual helpers have introduced interactive artificial intelligence into our everyday lives. But how do they work?
AI puts precision back into medical treatment
Artificial intelligence could tap into the enormous volumes of data not only on our bodily systems and genetic heritage, but also on various pharmaceutical substances – and help physicians design our treatments individually.
Wellbeing at work has a significant impact on productivity in the banking sector
According to the study, open interaction between management and employees can improve wellbeing and increase productivity.
Creating a unique professional profile by combining different fields of science
Professor Daniel Lindberg, a geologist and a chemist, encourages his students to study combinations of different subjects and fields of science.
ERC Synergy Grant worth €10M will help develop new techniques for brain research, disease diagnostics, and patient care
ERC Synergy Grant worth €10M will help develop new techniques for brain research, disease diagnostics, and patient care
Why is social entrepreneurship valued in Finland and in the US but not in South Korea and in Norway?
A new study shows that the answer lies in the level of governmental market activity coordination and social welfare service production.
Experts of the future think about themes, not employers, when considering their careers
The future of work was discussed at the Appetite for Excellence event.
Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence and research groups from Aalto received €1.4M funding from The Future Makers program
Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence and research groups from Aalto received €1.4M funding
New multi-million euro projects design magnetic tweezers to explore interaction and swarming dynamics of moving particles
Professor Jaakko Timonen's five-year research projects will design a new kind of magnetic tweezers with which to control and study the interaction of moving active particles. The tweezers could be used in microbiological research, for example, to separate and differentiate between various types of cells.
Space professor's research looks twenty-five years into the future
Esa Kallio, the man behind upcoming missions to send space probes to Mercury and Jupiter, blends the right mix of childish curiosity and steely determination.
Fibre technologies revolutionising the textile industry win the European Commission's Regiostars Awards
VTT and Aalto University’s TeKiDe project won the category Achieving sustainability through low carbon emissions.
Aalto researcher among 8 finalists for the 2018 Skolar award
Amber Geurts, Postdoctoral Researcher in Physics and Management Studies, is one of eight finalists competing for the 2018 Skolar Award.
Dr. Maja Vuckovac receives 2018 Exerowa-Platikanov Award
Dr. Vuckovac was granted the Exerowa-Platikanov Award for best oral presentation at the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS) annual conference 2018
Professor Katri Kauppi knows just what it takes to succeed in outsourcing
Just because you understand a clause in a contract, doesn’t mean you know what you are about to buy. It’s for this reason social and healthcare reform is doomed to fail unless a wealth of expertise is brought on board when considering outsourcing activities to the private sector.
