Doctoral education

Everything there is to know about doctoral education at Aalto University

Find instructions, guidance and current news related to doctoral education. This hub is for all doctoral students, supervising professors and thesis advisors, as well as applicants and others interested in doctoral education at Aalto University.

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Event poster with three people and text: Doc+ Dialogues on Diverse Doctoral Career Paths & Skills, Feb 2nd 2026, 15:30-17:30.

Doc+ Dialogues: Diverse Doctoral Careers & Skills

Welcome to Doc+ Dialogues - the new panel discussion series for doctoral researchers and dostDocs. Come and connect with your collegial community in Marsio at the heart of Aalto.

Events

New recommendation: doctoral students’ plans (DPSP) to be discussed twice a year

Doctoral students and supervising professors are encouraged to use the My Dialogue schedule to discuss the Doctoral personal study plan (DPSP).

News
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Sisu and DPSP clinics for doctoral students

Online clinic to help you with Sisu and Doctoral Personal Study Plan

Doctoral education

News and events for doctoral students and faculty

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Enhancing doctoral researchers’ work-life skills – Join the DOC+ events

Doctoral student or postdoc, have you been pondering about building a meaningful doctoral career? Or about the future of AI in research and working life? These events and learning opportunities are for you!
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Maintenance break in ACRIS on 26th of January, 2026

Maintenance break in ACRIS on 26 January from 10:00 to 15:00.
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Create your CV easily with the Research.fi profile tool

Aalto University’s researchers can now create a CV using the CV tool in the Research tool service. The tool generates an editable Word CV based on your Research.fi profile information, following the official TENK CV template.
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Students

Theses & Tomatoes: Start your studies with Pomodoro

Join us for guided studying and pick up tips for more effective work during Pomodoro sessions!
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For Aalto community Lectures and seminars

CS Doctoral Seminars

Welcome to learn more about the work of our doctoral researchers.
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Lectures and seminars, Workshops

Hands-on Data Protection workshop 27 & 29 / January / 2026

Learn about data protection in practice in this two-day workshop with Aalto data agents and Sensitive Data experts from CSC.
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Staff trainings, IT & digital tools, Support for teams, Training to support research

Intro to Triton and HPC 28 January 2026

Are you a researcher who has recently started working at Aalto? Would you like to have more resources for your data science tasks? Join our hands-on course for data science workflows with high performance computing using Triton Aalto High Performance Computing cluster!

Next public defences at Aalto University

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Public defences

Public defence in Bioproduct Technology, M.Sc. Daryna Diment

Advances in lignin engineering by developing structure–property–performance correlation to enable bio-based alternatives to fossil materials
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Public defences

Public defence in Electrical Power and Energy Engineering, M.Sc. Samar Fatima

The thesis studies the impact of rising solar power integration on electricity networks from both technical and economic perspectives.
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Public defences

Public defence in geoinformatics, M.Sc. (Tech.) Petri Palviainen

This work develops field- and laboratory methods for measuring reflectance spectra of forest floor, trees, and plant parts.
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Public defences

Public defence in Engineering Physics, M.Sc.(Tech.) Joel Hätinen

Enabling cryogenic technologies for superconducting quantum devices (title of the thesis).
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Our fundraising campaign is ongoing – see how to participate as an Aaltonian

Aalto has started a new fundraising campaign with the aim of showing how extensively Aalto influences society – and to encourage people to build a more hopeful and international Finland with us. As an Aaltonian, you can also participate by sharing the word with your networks.

See how Aaltonians can participate

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