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Saving energy with smart building services engineering
The donation for the teaching and research in smart building services engineering and smart buildings has accelerated the development of the field and inspired new students.
The Academy of Finland has published the call texts for the September 2022 call
The Academy of Finland has published the call texts for the upcoming September 2022 calls. The calls open on the 25th of August. The deadline for funding schemes targeted at individual researchers (Academy Research Fellowships, Clinical Researcher, international mobility) is on the 28th of September. The call for Academy Projects closes on the 5th of October.
Maintenance break in ACRIS on 13 June 2022
On 2022-06-13 from 10:00 to 20:00 there will be a maintenance break in ACRIS Research Information system. Research portal Research.aalto.fi is available, but you can't update your information.
From research to business: doctoral student Philipp Back and team initiate forestry startup formation
How can forest owners reconcile timber revenues, carbon sinks, and biodiversity? A multi-disciplinary research team combines economics, ecology, and machine learning to find the most productive way to manage forests sustainably. Now the team wants to bring their novel method to the market
Aalto RDM & Open Science Training Attracted 2,800 Registrations This Academic Year
The webinars continue to be highly rated and most are already publicly available on YouTube.
Hanna-Kaisa Korolainen: ‘Inspiration is not an uncontrollable force, but an active part of the creative process’
I claim series presents our recent doctoral theses.
New semantic portal gives meaning to parliamentary data
Researchers have amassed every speech ever held in the Finnish parliament into a semantic portal called ParliamentSampo to help journalists, researchers and the public to understand and oversee democracy
Half of women graduating into film and TV disappear from the industry – a research team explored how to solve the gender paradox
A respectful and open management culture, pay equity and education are key to increasing gender equality and tackling talent shortages.
Closer cooperation between Aalto and ABB Marine & Ports
ABB Marine & Ports and their equipment supplier Typhoon HIL are donating six simulators for researcher and student use.
Top-up funding for Aalto University to exploit research results
Aalto University Professor Zhipei Sun is leading one of the potential frontier research projects.
The science satellite Foresail-1 was successfully launched into space 25 May
The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Research of Sustainable Space's nanosatellite was successfully launched into space from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Centre.
Blockchains uphold data platform cooperation
Research has shown that a blockchain supports the transparency of data and the integrity of data in traffic between different platforms in an Internet of Things environment, thereby stabilising collaboration among platforms.
There is more to work than a big salary
A global survey of 4206 professionals found that work-life balance and salary rank equally as top criteria when looking for a new job. However, the choice of a job depends on many other factors as well, says CEMS Aalto alumnus Georg Namuth.
Heidi Fast: 'When interaction is impossible, vocal work can help connect with psychiatric patients'
I claim series presents our recent doctoral theses.
Designers find better solutions with computer assistance, but sacrifice creative touch
Computer-guided design can propose more solutions and balance out human inexperience and design fixation
Ascending Investigator Grant from Novo Nordisk Foundation awarded to Maria Sammalkorpi for computational biosynthetic materials research
Senior Scientist Maria Sammalkorpi has been awarded the highly competed Ascending Investigator 2022 Grant from Novo Nordisk Foundation for a total of ca 9 million DKK (1.2M€).
Art for All festival returns in August
The cross-artistic festival will take place 26.-28.8.2022 in the Helsinki Botanical Garden. The event features pieces from performing arts to installations and audiovisual works.
New Academy Research Fellows and postdoctoral researchers
Funding granted by the Academy of Finland brings six new Academy Research Fellows, and 14 postdoctoral researchers to Aalto University – congratulations to all!
Questions and answers about space giants
Why is it important to study black holes? Read more about the Event Horizon Telescope project in the questions and answers column.
Researchers’ bio
Researchers from Aalto University, University of Turku, and Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO participated the project taking a photo of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy.
