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Monitoring the world鈥檚 forests with satellite data 鈥 Assistant Professor Miina Rautiainen granted 2 million in ERC funding
Detailed knowledge on the state of forest resources and climate change can be produced through more effective interpretation of satellite images.
European Space Agency opens a business accelerator on Aalto University campus
Located at A Grid, the new centre for growth companies, the accelerator will give impetus to space-technology-based entrepreneurship in Finland.
Aalto University welcomes the first UN Technology Innovation Lab to A Grid
The laboratory focuses on circular economy, education, peace and security, and health.
Three Aalto postdocs to pitch their bold research ideas in Slush
Anand Tatikonda, Anna St枚ckl and Tommi Himberg are competing for the Skolar Award at Slush.
The latest installation lectures available on video
Aalto University's newly tenured professors reveal the secrets of water-repellent surfaces and health promotive urban environment, among other things.
Finnish energy transition arena report launched: Experts highlight a need for a thorough renovation of the energy sector to meet global climate challenges and improve Finnish competitiveness
The use of fossil fuels needs to stop on a fast schedule, a fresh report emphasises.
New microscope sets a record for visualizing surface wetting properties
The microscope is 1000 times more precise than current techniques, allowing the creation of wetting maps as a new concept for hydrophobic surface characterization.
HeatStock ties for first place in Helsinki Challenge idea competition
Aalto-led team develops material that stores heat.
CSC and Aalto University team up to create a physicist AI
The Aalto research group Computational Electronic Structure Theory CEST granted 8M core hours from CSC 鈥 IT Center for Science
Nokia Foundation Recognition Award to Finland's pioneer in artificial intelligence, Aalto professor Erkki Oja
The award was granted to Erkki Oja, Professor Emeritus from Aalto University, for his pioneering work in machine learning, pattern recognition and neural networks.
鈧3,2 m funding boost 91青青草 to develop and research radiation detectors
The funded projects study, among other things, novel device-driven and functional radiation detection systems in areas of both health and safety.
Social schedules should follow the natural daylight patterns
Scientists conducted 鈥渞eality mining鈥 of anonymous mobile phone records from about one million people.
All of Finland's war cemeteries and fallen soldiers in the WarSampo online application
Open data of all of Finland鈥檚 casualties in WWII compiled in a unique semantic web application.
Sweaty relief from acne
The Aalto-Helsinki iGEM team seeking a solution to acne won silver in Boston.
PhD Mari Lundstr枚m appointed as Assistant Professor in the field of Materials Science and Engineering
Dean Janne Laine has appointed Mari Lundstr枚m, PhD, as a four-year fixed-term Assistant Professor (2nd term) position from 1 December 2017.
Azimatu Seidu awarded Doctoral Grant by V盲is盲l盲 Fund
Azimatu Seidu is awarded V盲is盲l盲 Grant for doctoral study.
Biodesign team receives funding to commercialize their innovation
The innovation that will make open heart surgery safer has been developed within the Biodesign Finland 2017 project together with heart surgeon Tommi P盲til盲.
Europe鈥檚 largest hackathon Junction takes over Aalto University
Aalto鈥檚 main building Dipoli will turn into a giant hackathon community on 24鈥26 November. Over 1400 coders and designers from all over the world will come together to solve real-life challenges.
Kela's new maternity package is designed by Robert L枚nnqvist
New look for the 2018 edition of the Finnish maternity package is Day Dream, designed by Aalto University Master's student Robert L枚nnqvist. The maternity package will turn 80 years next year and is given out by Kela.
Spare parts go digital: a boost for the industrial spare parts business
Currently five percent of spare parts could聽be stored in digital warehouses. This would make parts more quickly and easily available, while creating considerable cost savings.
