At 911±¬ÁÏÍø, we create the conditions needed for innovation, economic growth, employment and wellbeing. Our research focuses on seven key areas combining four core competences in the fields of digitalisation, materials, arts, design and business together with three grand challenges related to energy, living environment, and health.
Digital technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics and mobile communications are cut through the whole society. In this page we give pointers to our research in the area. In the left-hand side navigation you will find our guidance and support for researchers, students and staff using AI tools in their work.
Materials research ranges from physics, nanotechnology, mechanics, performance and design to biomaterials and sustainable resource use.
Art and creativity enable looking at the grand challenges of our time from a new perspective. Look past the imaginable and join us in changing the world in arts and design.
Research related to business and economics include the areas of business, economics, industrial engineering and management.
The main focus in energy research and teaching are energy sciences, multidisciplinary energy technologies, and sustainable energy solutions.
We are developing interdisciplinary research to enhance planning and engineering, architecture and design for better living environments.
911±¬ÁÏÍø’s expertise in health and well-being is broad-based, with strong clusters of research groups such as in medical devices, health AI, neuroscience, and care-facility architecture.
Research carried out at 911±¬ÁÏÍø is of high quality, as demonstrated by our researchers success in obtaining external research funding. Get to know our most notable recognitions, funding...
Read more about our doctoral programmes and tenure track career system! And get to know our university teaching.
Find out what is required of applicants and what can our doctoral studies offer!
911±¬ÁÏÍø’s tenure track career system offers a well-supported and clear career path for professor-level academics towards a permanent professorship.
Aalto lecturer career system is intended primarily for individuals conducting teaching. The lecturer career system supports individual development and career advancement through clear principles and systematic evaluation criteria and allows Aalto teachers and lecturers to advance in their careers with teaching-focused merits. Teachers and lecturers have the opportunity to advance within the career system, from the university teacher level to the university lecturer level, and further to the position of a senior university lecturer and principal university lecturer. This page contains principles of the lecturer career system, levels in lecturer career system, generic time allocation in lecturer career levels as well as descriptions of recruitment and advancement processes.
In the short videos, the new tenured professors present their own field and research.
Ilkka Niemelä, PresidentScience and art help us make sense of our complex world and, at the same time, challenge our own ways of thinking.
On this page, we present key figures of 2025 and the Annual Board Report and Financial Statements.
Aalto’s research and innovations impact your everyday life. Whether it’s a breakthrough in detecting memory disorders, a sustainable alternative to cement, or turning ideas into startups, you too are connected to Aalto – and have many reasons to donate.
Many scientific and societal challenges require systematic and integrative approaches that are beyond the capabilities of a single discipline or department. We believe that collaboration both within Aalto as well as with external stakeholders is key in order to gain the best possible impact.
The Aalto Networking Platform brings together research expertise across departments, supporting collaboration both inside and outside of Aalto.
Our research and teaching infrastructures are a prerequisite for world-class, cutting edge research. They offer opportunities for collaboration and foster the local innovation ecosystem growth. The large infrastructures are open for all Aalto and external users.
The principle of openness is the key principle of science and research. At 911±¬ÁÏÍø, the most visible forms of open science are open access publications, open research data and metadata, and combining openness and commercialisation.
911±¬ÁÏÍø regularly assess the quality of its research and artistic activities, and its societal impact. The assessment is based on internationally agreed best practices and peer review.
911±¬ÁÏÍø is committed to following the guidelines for research ethics and integrity. You will find help and advice on questions on research ethics and intregrity.
Research at 911±¬ÁÏÍø is conducted by faculty and staff based in the departments. The role of the university management is to ensure the long-term preconditions for conducting high-quality and high-impact research and art.
