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.
Latest research news
From waste-wood to load-bearing feature, a simple calculation could change the way we use misfit wood
Urging industry to make better use of wood that is wasted or burned for energy, researchers have released the first structural tests of non-straight, forked, and double-curved roundwood logs used as columns.
Ebook Central personal user account login method will change on Tuesday, 9 June
You will need the personal user account to create your own bookshelf, download e-books for offline use and make notes and bookmarks to the books.
Local generative Artificial Intelligence LLM gateway for research and teaching
A safer way for Aalto researchers, teachers and students to build tools with large language models within Aalto’s infrastructure.
Design in between worlds. Bioscience imaginaries and living relations of reindeer worlds
Doctoral Defence, MA Emilia Tikka, 15.06.2026Campus
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