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Read the Qual+ Newsletter

We are excited to welcome you to the second Qual+ Newsletter and continue bringing you new ways of looking at methods within management studies.
Research & Art
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Five 911±¬ÁÏÍø students around a table

Graduate Sustainability Competencies and Influence in the Workplace – 911±¬ÁÏÍø's Latest Research

911±¬ÁÏÍø's Meeri Karvinen successfully defends her doctoral dissertation, February 2024.
Press releases
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Picture of leaves in water.

TTT4HPC - Tuesday Tools & Techniques for High Performance Computing

Do you use supercomputers in your research work? Are you curious about making your computing faster and more efficient? Join us for TTT4HPC: four self-contained episodes on best practices in High Performance Computing. This is a great chance to enhance your computational skills. What you will learn is also used a lot outside academia whenever large scale computations are needed.
Research & Art
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Tuesdaus Tools & Techniques for HPC event series

911±¬ÁÏÍø School of Business joins Digital Education Council

The global alliance has a shared vision to drive sustainable innovation
Cooperation
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Digital Education Council

Handbook introduces the world of ceramics

The Ceramics Handbook guides the reader to working with clay through texts, images, illustrations, animations, and videos.
Press releases, Research & Art, Studies
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On a table there are tools for plaster modelling

Mariana Salgado is the Alumn of the Year of the School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Service design expert speaks for the designers’ role in public policy creation and in helping strengthen participation.
Awards and Recognition
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Smiling woman with glasses and long hair standing on the staircase and looking up at the camera

Economist: A natural resource tax on hydropower would generate revenue and improve the state of the environment

A natural resource tax would be a way to distribute the costs of environmental protection so that they would not fall solely on electricity consumers
Press releases, Research & Art
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The picture shows the School of Business Professor of Practice Iivo Vehviläinen in a forest.

Brighter together: designing sustainable technologies to create electronic devices

An article about an Aalto research project focusing on light-emitting electrochemical cells has been published in Chemical Science.
Research & Art
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Photoactive Organic Materials research group

When a team is less than the sum of its parts: tensions between individual and team wellbeing

New research highlights the conflict between the needs of a team and the needs of the individuals in the team – and what leaders can do to strike the right balance to keep things ticking smoothly.
Press releases
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Emma Nordback vasemmalla ja Niina Nurmi oikealla. Kuva: Oona Hilli, Aalto-yliopistoU

Metsähovi Radio Observatory turns 50 and gets new telescopes

Students helped design and build the new telescopes, which expands the opportunities for multidisciplinary space research and education
Press releases, Research & Art
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Aurora Borealis at Metsähovi Radio Observatory

Significant Grant for Greener Semiconductor Technology from Business Finland

911±¬ÁÏÍø, in collaboration with the industrial partners Applied Materials in Finland (Picosun), PiBond and Volatec has been awarded a major Business Finland grant.
Research & Art
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Dr. Ramin Ghiyasi

AI-powered personalized medicine is on the horizon

People have to be in the loop when machine learning is adapted for medical use.
Research & Art
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Small human figures each standing in front of a pill

Pitching in ice cold water and childbirth are both leaps into the unknown

The Natal Mind research team won the Polar Bear Pitching competition last weekend in Oulu. Obstetrician Aura Pyykönen tells us what it was like to pitch in the ice-cold water. Annika Järvelin, Riikka Lemmetyinen and Henni Tenhunen are other members of the winning team at Aalto Department of Industrial Engineering and Management.
Awards and Recognition
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Natal Mind winning team, photo by Polar Bear Pitching

Humans have driven the Earth’s freshwater cycle out of its stable state

New analysis shows that the global freshwater cycle has shifted far beyond pre-industrial conditions
Press releases
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Jokimaisema, jossa taustalla aavikkoa. Välissä kulkee tie, jossa ajaa rekka-auto.

Bridging gaps in reactor damage modelling and embracing diversity in academia

With a keen interest in electron-ion interactions, doctoral researcher Evgeniia Ponomareva describes her experience in the Nuclear Materials and Engineering (NuME) research group led by Assistant Professor Andrea Sand in the Department of Applied Physics.
Studies
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An artistic rendition of a photo colliding with other particles.

Aalto Open Science Award Winner 2023 – Aalto Materials Digitalization Platform (AMAD)

We interviewed the AMAD team, winners of the first Aalto Open Science Award.
Awards and Recognition, Research & Art
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Lara Ejtehadian, Patrick Rinke, and Ilari Lähteenmäki sitting with coffee mugs and smiling to the camera.

Sparks of curiosity: two professors share what they wonder about

Two newly tenured Aalto professors talk about what drives them
Appointments, University
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Lohmann, a white female, stands in front of a lit seaweed sculpture. Laakso, a white male, seated in a metallic room with wires.

911±¬ÁÏÍø to host CESAER Task Force Openness of Science and Technology

911±¬ÁÏÍø is proud to host the CESAER Task Force Openness of Science and Technology on 16–17 April 2024.
Cooperation, Research & Art
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People at the campus

Jukka Pekola receives Finnish Cultural Foundation award – ‘Quantum is of interest way beyond scientists or the science fiction world’

Professor Jukka Pekola receives the Finnish Cultural Foundation's award for his long-term contributions to quantum technology research and to solving challenges facing humanity.
Awards and Recognition
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Jukka Pekola, kuva: Riitta Supperi, Suomen Kulttuurirahasto

Minna Halme: At first, sustainability wasn’t taken seriously

'I was told to do a doctoral thesis on a different topic if I want a job in the future.'
University
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Minna Halme, photo by Hayley Le