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Professor Eero Hyvönen appointed as the new director of HELDIG, Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities
Professor Eero Hyvönen will also continue his work as professor at Aalto University.

Digital calculator provides the estimated risk for GIST recurrence
The calculator is based on a risk analysis model published in 2012 by Aalto University and HUCH Cancer Center.

Olli V. Lounasmaa Memorial Prize 2016 awarded to Michel Devoret
Professor Michel Devoret received the prize for his pioneering investigations and applications of macroscopic quantum phenomena at low temperatures.

The effects of solar storms are seen on the Earth
Visiting professor Eija Tanskanen ended up as a researcher when she could not find sufficient answers to her questions.

Aalto University successful in engineering subjects in ShanghaiRanking
Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Mechanical Engineering made it to the top 75 in the global ranking.
SCI Visiting Scientist Programmes
Deadlines will be four times a year: 28 February, 31 May, 31 August and 30 November.
Summer School on Algebra, Statistics and Combinatorics
The summer school was funded by the AScI thematic research programme "Challenges in Large Geometric Structures and Big Data".

TMS revealed differences between brain activity of people who dream and people who do not dream
Assessment of consciousness may help in treatment of brain injury patients.
Anton Kuzyk new Assistant Professor
Finland is already a very familiar country to Ukrainian Kuzyk.
Seeing touch and haptic events entrains the brain activity
Researchers measured brain activity in volunteers who were given tactile stimuli while watching a movie.

Atomic structure of metal-halide perovskites from first principles: The chicken-and-egg paradox of the organic-inorganic interaction
Jingrui's paper about the atomic structure of hybrid perovskites for photovoltaic applications just appeared as Physical Review B 94, 045201 (2016)
Systems researcher makes life easier
Thanks to Professor Yu Xiao and her colleagues, getting lost at airports and shopping centres may soon be history.

Enforcing the linear behavior of the total energy with hybrid functionals: Implications for charge transfer, interaction energies, and the random-phase approximation
Our paper "Enforcing the linear behavior of the total energy with hybrid functionals" has been published in Physical Review B.
Researchers printed energy producing photographs
With the method developed in Aalto University, any picture or text could be inkjet-printed as a solar cell.
Wave-function inspired density functional applied to the H2/H+2 challenge
Our paper "Wave-function inspired density functional applied to the H2/H+2 challenge" is now published in the New Journal of Physics.
Aalto-2 satellite is ready for space
The design and construction of the satellite have utilised technology and experience from Aalto-1.

A paper by marketing scholars from Aalto University appears in Journal of Marketing
A study by former and current researchers from the Aalto University School of Business appears in the latest (May) issue of Journal of Marketing.
Two computer science articles have been made into videos
The videos have been made for the cross disciplinary Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining KDD 2016.
Restaurant Day turns the logic of retail successfully on its head
Retail is not only economic exchange, but also an important part of social interaction.

ERC Proof of Concept to Mikko Möttönen
The Proof of Concept grant will be used to develop commercial applications.