Aalto University

The Dean of the School of Engineering, Kari Tammi, has appointed Assistant Professor Tua Björklund as Director of Aalto Design Factory from 1 September 2024. The Design Factory is an experimental platform for education and research in…

Department of Architecture Pia Fricker has been appointed as Associate Professor for a fixed term of five years from 1 August 2024. The field of the position is Augmented Computational Design. Department of Film Arturo…

New self-study spaces have been opened on the 4th floor of the Y-wing of the Undergraduate Centre (Otakaari 1). The spaces range in size from small two-person study rooms to large rooms with sofas and large conference tables. Some…

Semiconductors, such as silicon, have unique electrical properties that allow them to be used in various electronic devices, such as integrated circuits and LED lights. These materials are at the core of modern electronics and form the…

An international seminar on ‘Decision Analytics’ was organized jointly by Emeritus Professor Jyrki Wallenius, the Department of Information and Service Management at Aalto University School of Business, and the Doctoral Education…

The Master’s thesis management will change in August 2024 with the introduction of a new thesis functionality in MyStudies portal. When starting a master’s thesis, students will enter the basic information of the thesis, such as the topic,…

The Weisell Foundation, a long-time supporter of Aalto University, is donating €70 000 to Aalto University Junior to be used for scaling up workshops in robotics. ‘Robotics-related workshops are among the most popular workshops…

By decision of the president of the university, the Aalto University Foundation will resign from the inter-university agreement on flexible study rights (JOO agreement). The agreement, signed by the founding universities of Aalto University…

The prize was awarded for the first time on 20 August 2024 to Jyri Fält, an architecture graduate from the University of Oulu. In his thesis on urban planning, Fält studied the infill development of Hakaniemenranta in Helsinki…

The 51st EATCS International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP) is held in Tallinn on 8-12 July, 2024. ICALP is the main conference and annual meeting of the European Association for Theoretical Computer…