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.

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Latest research news

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Applications open for Innovation Postdoc in AI

A fully funded, 12–month career track to turn your doctoral discoveries into a deep-tech startup.
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A Finnish working group’s artwork brings a cooling garden to Spain, which is sweltering in the heat

Through their garden art installation, a group of Finnish architects and artists proposes vegetation and a sense of community, among other things, as solutions to urban heat islands and the environmental crisis.
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RealYou AI will develop the next generation of personalized AI decision assistants

Researchers to build cognitive machine learning that will improve decision-making with instantly personalized intelligent assistance.
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Researchers identify new superconductors, unlocking process that could yield thousands more

Physicists have used machine-learning to discover two new superconductors––it represents a substantial step towards realising massive energy efficiency gains from superconductivity.

Campus

Aalto University's campus in Otaniemi is the home of an innovative community. Explore the campus virtually at virtualtour.aalto.fi.

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