The latest installation lectures available on video
As part of the university's tenure track career system, the newly appointed tenured professors delivered their installation lectures on their own research on 27 January 2015. The videos of the lectures are available on Aalto University's YouTube channel. The lectures are in English.
“Design methodologies combine thought and practice”
Antti Ahlava, Full Professor
School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Architecture
“Customers as part-time employees – implications of self-service for service management”
Tomas Falk, Associate Professor
School of Business, Department of Marketing
“Co-creating innovations for sustainable development”
Minna Halme, Full Professor
School of Business, Department of Management Studies
“Pure mathematics and dirty practice”
Camilla Hollanti, Associate Professor
School of Science, Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis
“Basic neuroscience discoveries stimulate innovations and clinical applications”
Matti S. Hämäläinen, Full Professor
School of Science, Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
“Business ethicists herding the sheep for the big bad wolf: European philosophical tradition and the role of applied ethics in a ripe capitalist world”
Matti Häyry, Full Professor
School of Business, Department of Management Studies
“Investors behaving badly”
Markku Kaustia, Full Professor
School of Business, Department of Finance
Video coming soon.
“Entrepreneurship and population ageing”
Teemu Kautonen, Associate Professor
School of Business, Department of Management Studies
“Electrochemistry without electrodes”
Lasse Murtomäki, Associate Professor
School of Chemical Technology, Department of Chemistry
“Enabling new functionalities through materials and microsystems integration”
Mervi Paulasto-Kröckel, Associate Professor
School of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation
“Quantum perspective of novel hybrid materials”
Patrick Rinke, Associate Professor
School of Science, Department of Applied Physics
“Using nature's asymmetry: from pagodas to nanopaper”
Orlando Rojas, Full Professor
School of Chemical Technology, Department of Forest Products Technology
“Optoelectronics: from materials physics and nanosciences to consumer applications”
Markku Sopanen, Associate Professor
School of Electrical Engineering, Department of Micro and Nanosciences
“Art education: towards greater equity and diversity”
Anniina Suominen, Associate Professor
School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Art
“Uncertain superstars”
Marko Terviö, Full Professor
School of Business, Department of Economics
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