Careers at Aalto

Research opportunities at Aalto

Aalto University provides high-level facilities for research, teaching and innovation, including unique, nationally significant research infrastructures. Our large infrastructures are open to everyone in the Aalto community.

Driving excellence in research

Aalto University shines in international university rankings, especially in field-specific rankings in technology, art and business, as well as in those that compare young universities.

Our long-term purpose in research: We excel and make breakthroughs in and across science, art, technology and business.
Our current focus of development: Driving excellence. We create world-class clusters of excellence in our key research areas and bring complementary talent together to work on grand challenges.
The planned actions: Attracting and fostering talent, developing selected research infrastructures, new collaboration across fields.

Key research areas

Aalto University’s research focuses on seven key areas combining four core competences in the fields of ICT, materials, arts, design and business together with three grand challenges related to energy, living environment, and health.

Finnish technology going into outer space – aims to help protecting Earth from asteroid impacts

A hyperspectral camera ASPECT developed by VTT is on board the European Space Agency (ESA) space mission to test deflection technology of potentially hazardous asteroids. The University of Helsinki and Aalto University are responsible for data processing, equipment testing, and the scientific design of the mission. Kuva Space has designed the data processing unit of the hyperspectral camera, as well as life-support equipment for both of the CubeSats.