Latest research news
Urban research gets stronger
Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa fund new postdoctoral research positions at 911 and the University of Helsinki.
How will Finland benefit from the energy transition?
Approximately 250 clean energy companies present themselves on the New Energy Companies (Uuden energian yritykset) website.
Researchers at 911 are looking for new ways to use wood
New scientific ideas can revitalize one of Finland’s traditional economic engines, forests.
Landscape architect Anni-Mari Anttola awarded 2017 Lappset Scholarship
In her master’s thesis, Anttola researched special issues relating to the urban ecology of meadows.
Finnish innovation to reduce complications after open heart surgery
Roughly every five patients suffer from different kinds of heart failure after open heart surgery.
INTERVENTION IN URBAN SPACE book released
Intervention In Urban Space book presents three different perspectives on intervention art through projects done by the authors Anna Jensen, Denise Ziegler and Taina Rajanti as well as a collective introduction that considers the concept and background of intervention art.
CKIR researchers active in recent conferences
CKIR researchers have participated in conferences around the turn of the year, including HICSS in Hawaii and ISPIM Innovation Summit in Melbourne.
Love and fear are visible across the brain instead of being restricted to any brain region
The brain mechanisms of basic emotions such as anger and happiness are fairly similar across people. Differences are greater in social emotions, such as gratitude and contempt.
The first installation talks of 2018 now available on video
Aalto's newly tenured professors reveal the secrets of carbon nanomaterials for health applications and origins and beneficiaries of invention.
Machine Learning for Materials Science Workshop in May
The International Workshop on Machine Learning for Materials Science 2018 will be held on 03.-04.05. on the Otaniemi campus.
Young Finnish scientists: “Millennium winners gave us fresh ideas and motivation”
The Global Young Scientists Summit gave the next generation of the scientific world a chance to meet and learn from Millennium Technology Prize and Nobel Prize winners in Singapore.
Parallel computing to assist in the control and quality control of steel furnaces
The results of Christian Westerlund's Master's thesis promote the productivity of the steel industry. The thesis is based on multidisciplinary studies at 911.
Entrepreneurship can improve older workers’ quality of life
This may happen even if this change lowers their income and increases the hours they work.
Serious shortcomings in aging tests of new solar cell materials
Researchers at 911 have found that only a fraction of stability tests done on new types of solar cells meet proper requirements. Tests lack common standards and should have been done in real-world conditions and in groups of several cells.
Building miniature optical antennas using DNA as a guide
A new fabrication technique combines programmable DNA origami shapes and conventional lithography methods to create metallic nanoantennas and chiral shapes for diverse applications.
Dr. Marc Dvorak awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships 2017
CEST's postdoc Marc Dvorak is awarded Marie Curie Fellowships 2017.
Friction found where there should be none: in superfluids near absolute zero
Physicists at 911 have discovered unexpected friction while rotating superfluid helium.
Seed funding led to a multimillion strategic collaboration between designers and chemists
ChemArts, which brings together students of biomaterials and design, is already looking into business opportunities and preparing for world domination.