Master's Programme in Life Science Technologies
Thesis
This table shows the important dates for thesis approval process. The deadline for submitting documents for the Degree Programme Committee is approximately 3 weeks before the meeting.
When you are planning for submitting your thesis for evaluation, consider these dates according to your graduation and study right. You need to be present as a student when applying for thesis evaluation. This is critical especially at the end of semesters in July and December.
Submit your documents on the deadline date by 23:59 at the latest.
| Deadlines for submitting applications in 2025 | Degree Programme Committee meetings in 2025 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday 31.12.2024 | Monday 27.1. |
| Monday 24.2. | Monday 17.3. |
| Monday 28.4. | Monday 19.5. |
| Monday 26.5. | Monday 16.6. |
| Thursday 31.7. | Monday 18.8. |
| Monday 29.9. | Monday 20.10 |
| Monday 24.11. | Monday 15.12. |
| Wednesday 31.12. | January 2025 |
Master's Theses of LifeTech Students
Below you can find master's theses written by students of Master's Programme in Life Science Technologies. All master's theses are available in the Aaltodoc publication archive of Aalto University.
Master's thesis
| Author | Master's thesis | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Panu Ryynänen | Biosensing and Bioelectronics | Towards ultra-wearable electrodermal activity system for early stress detection |
| Pinja Rimpeläinen | Biosensing and Bioelectronics | Large-scale computational modeling for TMS activation patterns |
| Kaisla Sutinen | Biosensing and Bioelectronics | Hydrofluoric acid surface treatment for silicon wafer bulk defect characterization via photoluminescence imaging |
| Petra Ekroos | Complex Systems | Finding Solutions: How to Benefit from Unused Biodesign Program Needs Data |
| Erika Forss | Bioinformatics and Digital Health | Prediction of complications in chronic liver diseases utilizing survival analysis and variational autoencoder |
| Sara Laurila | Complex Systems | Network-structural mechanism for power-law interevent times in the contact process |
| Otso Häkkänen | Complex Systems | Towards extensible automated semiconductor characterization and analysis |
| Elias Nurmela | Bioinformatics and Digital Health | Data Sensitivity-Based LLM Routing Privacy-Preserving Architecture for Enterprise Al |
| Imose Iduozee | Bioinformatics and Digital Health | Analysis of Visual Mechanisms in Human Outlier Detection Behavior |
| Salli Hannula | Bioinformatics and Digital Health | Provider-Perspective Economic Viability of a Digital Hearing Diagnostic Pathway in US Primary Care |
| Saana Vainio | Human Neuroscience and Technology | Multiple Imputation of Post-Intervention Outcomes: Can Synthetic Labels Improve Prediction? |
| Laura Toivanen | Complex Systems | A dynamic machine learning model for daily prediction of febrile neutropenia during intensive chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia |
| Satu Saarenpää | Biomedical Engineering | Developing an electrochemical aptamer-based biosensing platform for dopamine detection using nanomaterials |
| Inka Mattila | Bioinformatics and Digital Health | When is Pseudo-Bulk Enough? A Comparison of Single-Cell–Based Machine Learning Methods and Classical Methods |
| Venla Turakainen | Biomedical Engineering | Wearable Technology for Menstrual Cycle Tracking: A Technical Validation and Case Study of a Phase Detection Algorithm with Waist-Worn Sensing |
| Maria Luu | Biomedical Engineering | Structured specification and automated extraction of clinical health data for research use |
| Jaakko Pulkkinen | Bioinformatics and Digital Health | Moisture profile measurement of paperboard web using thermal camera |
| Daniel Hautala | Bioinformatics and Digital Health | Strategic integration of artificial intelligence in software engineering: a systematic approach using value stream mapping |
| Stella Levander | Complex Systems | Predicting mRNA expression of secreted proteins |
| Eeli Friman | Bioinformatics and Digital Health | Modeling Laser Performance Decrease with Stochastic Degradation Models |
| Patrik Luoma | Biomedical Engineering | A data-driven dynamic pricing framework for field service operations under demand and capacity constraints |
| Elsa Kankkunen | Biomedical Engineering | Electrically Reconfigurable Plasmonic DNA Origami Nanodevices for Single-Molecule Detection |
| Juha Leukkunen | Human Neuroscience and Technology | Sensory-Driven NeuroGame to Support Cognitive Function |
| Tuomas Kukkonen | Investigating the hypersuccinylation of the electron transport chain in defective SUCLA2 disease | Juho Rousu |
| Aapo Komonen | Normative modeling of resting-state beta-band activity in MEG data | Hanna Renvall |
| Essi Ukkonen | Calibration and testing of magnetic microrheometry for 3D cell culture-based efficacy screening of cancer drugs | Juho Pokki |
| Netta Ahmavaara | Detection of Abnormally High and Low Heart Rates using Photoplethysmography and Accelerometer Signals | Jari Saramäki |
| Janika Ikonen | Impact of Electronic Health Record System Usability on Patient Safety – A Sur-vey of Physicians’ Experiences | Johanna Viitanen |
| Zahra Dashtgerd | Multimodal Regulatory Genomics with Deep Learning - Case Study in ccRCC | Juho Rousu |
| Lassi Härtsiä | Raw signal alignment algorithm for Nanopore sequencing | Aki Vehtari |
| Juuso Vilppula | Modelling the Effects of Semaglutide on Postprandial Glucose and Insulin Using Hierarchical Multi-Output Gaussian Process Regression | Pekka Marttinen |
| Patrick Sothmann | Machine Learning for Clinical Decision Support in Cardiovascular Care: Performance and Interpretability Analysis | Stephane Deny |
| Titus Kärkkäinen | Data-driven optimization of pre-clinical research processes in drug discovery | Matias Palva |
| Robin Rantala | Re-architecting embedded firmware using Zephyr real-time operating system in a wearable patient monitor | Ilkka Laakso |
| Olivia Jaakkola | Multimodal characterization of diagnostic fusion biopsies in prostate cancer | Pekka Marttinen |
| Henrietta Hietala | Evaluating User Value of Generative AI tools in Early Corporate Innovation | Riku Linna |
| Patrik Nikula | Modular web client for wearable sensor control in research environments — Movesense Flash integration | Linda Henriksson |
| Alisa Hakola | Correcting Systematic Biases in ECMWF 2-Meter Temperature Forecasts with Machine Learning Post-Processing | Riku Linna |
| Matias Ylitolva | Maintenance Master Data Creation Through PLM System Digitalization | Jaakko Hollmen |
| Eetu Rintala | Systemic Analysis of Industrial Energy Savings Through Electric Motor Driven Systems Across Segments and Their Potential to Enable Renewable Energy | Petter Holme |
| Mohsen Ghane | PepCABO: Latent-space Bayesian optimization for peptide-MHC binding using contrastive alignment | Harri Lähdesmäki |
| Sannina Honkaharju | Scale-free dynamics of mouse movement during game-based cognitive tasks | Matias Palva |
| Rasmus Järnström | Triage of Cancer Comorbidity Associations via LLM-Based Literature Assessment | Pekka Marttinen |
| Anniina Harju | Applying Circular Economy Principles to Hospital Fluid Waste Management | Heikki Nieminen |
| Iina Rantala | Performance Optimization and Safety Assessment of a Novel Crosslinked Silicone Coating | Heikki Nieminen |
| Anna Peltola | Neural Representations of Natural Auditory Distractors | Iiro Jääskeläinen |
| Nea Mattila | Engineering medical device requirements with large language models | Lauri Parkkonen |
| Elias Mäntykoski | Dynamic Symptom Ranking for Iterative Online Triage | Harri Lähdesmäki |
| Veera Tarkiainen | Eye movement synchronization to cardiac and respiratory cycles | Matti Hämäläinen |
| Linnea Ruuskanen | Uncertainty Aware Intracranial Aneurysm Segmentation from CTA Images | Pekka Marttinen |
| Jesse Paananen | Hyvinvointialueiden kustannuskehityksen ennustaminen koneoppimismenetelmin (Predicting the cost development of wellbeing services counties using machine learning methods) | Juho Rousu |
| Joonatan Lindfors | A Network Analysis of COVID-19 Transmission in the Uusimaa Region Using Real Contact Tracing Data | Jari Saramäki |
| Samuli Karvinen | Impact of Source–Detector Distance on Reflectance Photoplethysmography — An Experimental Evaluation Across Anatomical Sites | Ivan Vujaklija |
| Silmu Valaskivi | Dissolved Gas Analysis with Infrared Spectroscopy | Tomi Laurila |
| Maria Rajakenttä | Robustness of Hidden Markov Models for detecting resting beta states in magnetoencephalography data | Hanna Renvall |
| Mohammad Sherafati | Dual-Model Augmentation for Compositional Semantic Parsing via Recursive Log-Likelihood Guidance | Pekka Marttinen |
| Noora Metsäranta | Developing genetic risk scores for improving outcome prediction in cancer | Matias Palva |
| Rosa Peltola | Weather forecast uncertainty in adaptive ship weather routing: deterministic and ensemble approaches | Riku Linna |
| Janika Vainikainen | Optimising Departmental Logistics through PPG Lift and Ordering Channel Optimisation | Matias Palva |
| Elisa Ståhlberg | Enhancing Pharmacy IT Support with a Conversational AI Agent | Matias Palva |
| Vilma Friis | Planning a Management System and Policy for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data — Case Study in a Medical Technology Company | Hanna Renvall |
| Emmi Helminen | Machine Learning-Based Prediction of MRI Scan Duration | Hanna Renvall |
| Eemeli Luostarinen | Localizing Optically Pumped Magnetometers in a Person-sized Magnetic Shield Using Electromagnetic Coils | Lauri Parkkonen |
| Alireza Tajmirriahi | Field-of-View Extension in 3D Cone-Beam CT with Latent Diffusion Models | Koen Van Leemput |
| Henri Toivola | Framework for regulatory compliance for software supplier in pharmaceutical manufacturing — Elevating the burden of regulatory compliance | Ivan Vujaklija |
| Sylvia Syvänen | Enhancing User Experience in the EUDAMED Database: Addressing Challenges and Facilitating Smooth and Widespread Rollout | Hanna Renvall |
| Alexandra Gorbonos | Benchmarking of deep neural networks for integration of multiomics data for cancer subtyping | Pekka Marttinen |
| Andrey Melnyk | Developing a machine learning model for prioritising genetic variants in rare disease diagnosis | Mikko Kivelä |
| Anna Lumppio | Development of a gold nanoparticle-based lateral flow immunoassay for the de-tection of pepsinogen I | Hanna Renvall |
| Tuomas Laiho | Machine Learning for Alarm Management in Hospital Ward Environments | Stephane Deny |
| Rita Ristimäki | Comparative life cycle assessment of pressurized hot water extraction based lignocellulosic biorefinery using multiple scenario analysis | Luana Dessbesell |
| Anna Savola | Handheld FTIR -based assessment of pharmaceutical surface cleanliness | Sesilja Aranko |
| Eero Stolt | Modification of lignin with lipids through green technologies | Monika Österberg |
| Lauri Tossavainen | Microbiota-driven α-synuclein pathology in the gut: A histological and molecular study | Paula Jouhten |
| Liisa Haltia | Investigating the Efficacy of MDK-inhibitor Treatment in Liposarcoma Cell Lines: Inhibition of MDK Expression and Sensitization to Lower Doxorubicin Doses | Hanna Renvall |
| Erika Romppanen | Genetic Risk Discovery in Raynaud's Syndrome through Computational Genomics | Matias Palva |
| Joel Rouste | Mapping of corticalrepresentationsfor hand, arm, and leg with a TMS-EEG-EMGapproachduring rest and isometriccontraction | Hanna Renvall |
| Vaishnavi Mahita | The Effects of Thermolabile Protein Over-expression on the Single-molecule Dynamics of Bacterial Heat Shock Chaperone DnaK. | Jarno Mäkelä |
| Reetta Kälvälä | Skull Attenuation Estimation for High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Using Zero Echo Time MRI | Lauri Parkkonen |
| Riina Pöllänen | Temporal processing of objects across poses in the human brain — An MEG study of visual perception | Stephane Deny |
| Sohvi Perttunen | Dimensional Variability in Inhaler Assembly: A Data-Driven Study | Heikki Nieminen |
| Olli Pikkarainen | Design and implementation of a demagnetization procedure for a person-sized magnetic shield | Lauri Parkkonen |
| Eelis Eklund | Active Magnetic Shielding for Magnetoencephalography in a Person-Sized Shield | Lauri Parkkonen |
| Linda Jalonen | Combining eye tracking and magnetoencephalography to map neural dynamics of saccade preparation | Hanna Renvall |
| Veera Repka | Interoperability in Centralized and Decentralized Healthcare Systems: How to Integrate a Finnish Digital Health Application into Germany’s Telematics Infrastructure | Matias Palva |
| Iida Lähdekorpi | Fine-Tuning Transformer-Based Models to Extract Transactions from Bank Statements | Jari Saramäki |
| Axel Hedman | Temporal Bipartite Graph Neural Networks for Cardiovascular Risk Prediction from Finnish Registry Data | Samuel Kaski |
| Riikka Mononen | Retinotopic mapping paradigm for investigating the spatial resolution of MEG | Linda Henriksson |
| Nea Kreivi | Hierarchical Annotation of Single Cell RNA Sequencing Data Using Large Language Models | Harri Lähdesmäki |
| Johannes Ojanen | On Transcriptomic Aging Heterogeneity in Human Heart Disease | Jari Saramäki |
| Karoliina Rågback | The Euphotic IPS Device: A Novel Method for Diffuse Intermittent Photic Stimulation in Magnetoencephalography | Linda Henriksson |
| Eemil Ferrand | Laser micropatterning for flow control in lateral flow assays | Sami Franssila |
| Noora Hautamäki | Batch correction and marker imputation in flow cytometry | Paula Jouhten |
| Elmo Eskelinen | Guiding surface-layer protein self-assembly on DNA origamis | Mauri Kostiainen |
| Venla Kokkonen | Chemical recycling of polyamides | Jukka Niskanen |
| Thi Lam | Effect of mild acid hydrolysis on dyed textile waste | Michael Hummel |
| Senni Hurttala | Genome analysis of conventionally maintained Komagataeibacter species | Rahul Mangayil |
| Juuso Puolakka | Modulating bacterial quorum sensing with visible light | Mauri Kostiainen |
| Ville Helle | Scaling up electro-mediated TEMPO oxidation of plant-based cellulosic materials | Eero Kontturi |
| Miska Mykkänen | Effect of Hybridization on the Translation Efficiency of mRNA-DNA Hybrid Origami Nanostructures | Mauri Kostiainen |
| Mikko Peura | Termoasidofiilisten bakteerien ja maito- happobakteerien esiintyminen ja hallinta invertoidun nestesokerin tuotannossa Suomen Sokerilla | Markus Linder |
| Teemu Räsänen | Development and Quantification of Droplet-Driven Self-Cleaning on Mi-crostructured PDMS Surfaces | Ville Jokinen |
| Author | Master's thesis | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Dipti Boopalan | Drop Coalescence Dynamics and Protein Interactions at the Air-Water Interface | Matilda Backholm |
| Mikko Salonen | The Impact of Covariance Matrix Estimators on Riemannian EEG BCI | Esa Ollila |
| Wenzhe He | Computational Modelling of White Matter Activation for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation | Ilkka Laakso |
| Wenli Fu | Predictive mental healthcare with machine learning | Heikki Nieminen |
| Helmi Iivarinen | Cluster Analysis of Carotid Plaque Characteristics — Assessing Risk Factors of Intracranial Vascular Events | Mikko Kivelä |
| Rasmus Pitkäkangas | Assessing Cardiovascular Health Through Machine Learning: A Feasibility Study | Talayeh Aledavood |
| Siru Räty | Joint Modelling for Cardiovascular Disease Risk Estimation | Nuutti Hyvönen |
| Alina Schepers | Optimising Textile Motion Sensing — Characterisation and Integration of Knitted Strain Sensors for Joint Monitoring Applications | Yu Xiao |
| Minna Ikonen | Identification of functional enhancer-promoter interactions in the canine brain | Harri Lähdesmäki |
| Elina Heikkilä | Development and Experimental Validation of Computational Tools for DNA Nanostructure Design | Anton Kuzyk |
| Michaela Huhtala | Investigation of the associations between physical activity, sleep, and stress through passive sensing | Talayeh Aledavood |
| Salma Rachidi | Explainable machine learning in cancer survival prediction — A case study of myeloma patients | Alex Jung |
| Netta Ollikka | Investigating the role of recurrence in the human visual system with a novel psychophysics paradigm | Stephane Deny |
| Kim Valén | Development and analysis of a continuous wavelength-dependent calibration model for pulse oximeters | Petter Holme |
| Klaus Hakulinen | Identification of collective dynamics using SINDy | Riku Linna |
| Matias Honkasalo | AI-based droplet detection | Maarit Korpi-Lagg |
| Heidi Riihilahti | Investigating the Impact of CYP2D6 on Health Through Genetic Analysis | Juho Rousu |
| Catherine Fait | Designing a data pipeline for total column greenhouse gas measurements with portable EM27/SUN spectrometers | Alex Jung |
| Iiris Atti | The needed stimulation intensity and number of pulses for evoking reliable TMS evoked potentials | Hanna Renvall |
| Iida Haukilahti | Advanced Tumor Organoid / Stromal Co-Culture Models for the Pancreatic Cancer Microenvironment | Jarno Mäkelä |
| Susanna Vatto-Purhonen | Development of a theoretical calibration model for novel pulse oximetry sensors | Matias Palva |
| Ana Gheorghiu | Sustainable Waste Management in Operating Rooms: Medical Device Design and Trends in Healthcare | Matias Palva |
| Valo Hallman | Multimodal fusion for predicting future breast cancer risk | Jouko Lampinen |
| Alisa Leskinen | Internet delivered therapy for insomnia: clinicians experiences and views | Matias Palva |
| Tom Mikkola | Using Machine Learning to Detect Overtraining Syndrome | Simo Särkkä |
| Elina Satova | Exploring Phage-Host Interactions in the Human Microbiome: Development of a Dataset for Benchmarking Predictive Models. | Harri Lähdesmäki |
| Mariam Jalomie | Generating Molecules for Personalized Medicine Using Reinforcement Learning | Harri Lähdesmäki |
| Shiva Ayoubzadeh | Adverse drug reactions prediction using deep learning models | Juho Rousu |
| Valtteri Karlsson | Leveraging large language models for medical entity detection in free-text clinical criteria | Stephane Deny |
| Teemu Lukkari | Deep Learning Architecture Comparison for Semantic Segmentation of Forest Roads | Vikas Garg |
| Henna Nyblom | Design of an Authentication System for Medical Device Accessories with Integrated Usage Optimization | Heikki Nieminen |
| Tuomas Hämäläinen | Electrochemical detection of tetracycline in milk using nanocellulose/carbon nanostructure composite electrodes | Tomi Laurila |
| Kaisa Kärkkäinen | Random Forest Classification for Annotation of Malignant Cells in AML Patients | Harri Lähdesmäki |
| Vanilja Hyppönen | A Comparative Analysis of Migration Tools for Python 3 in Medical Device Software | Stephane Deny |
| Inkalilja Pirinen | Exploring deep learning -derived histological features for improved risk stratifica-tion of prostate cancer patients | Pekka Marttinen |
| Oskar Ikäheimo | Unveiling the Circadian Regulation of the Mouse Pupillary Light Reflex | Petri Ala-Laurila |
| Milla Kosonen | Efficient and statistically valid regression methods for detecting SNP-trait associations | Maarit Korpi-Lagg |
| Elissa Peltola | Unveiling patient phenotypes in blood transfusion therapy through deep representation learning | Harri Lähdesmäki |
| Antti Mansikka | Evaluation of the Analog Front-end of an Electroencephalography System | Lauri Parkkonen |
| Juuso Ikola | ToothSeeker: Bayesian Parameter Optimization for a Computational Model of Tooth Morphogenesis | Riku Linna |
| Oskari Pyykkönen | Migrating a Continuous Integration Server for Patient Monitor Software Development From CentOS 7 to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | Matias Palva |
| Meeri Särkkä | Feasibility of Automated Alarm Relevance Annotation: Integrating Machine Learning and Clinician Insights | Riku Linna |
| Antti Huttunen | Multimodal Tumour Type and Subtype Classification with Deep Learning | Harri Lähdesmäki |
| Venla Valkeavirta | Detecting age-related changes in brain activity during picture naming using machine learning | Lauri Parkkonen |
| Vanilja Hyppönen | A Comparative Analysis of Migration Tools for Python 3 in Medical Device Software | Stephane Deny |
| Krista Karttunen | Statistical modelling of genetic background of haemoglobin deferral in blood donation | Juho Rousu |
| Vili Ripatti | Forecasting Prescription Medication Utilization: A Comparative Study of SARIMA, Prophet, XGBoost and LSTM Models | Riku Linna |
| Annika Sjöholm | Optimizing adaptive eyewear lens transition properties | Linda Henriksson |
| Iiris Pitko | The Interplay of Somatic Mutation Profiles and Germline Variations in Breast Can-cer | Harri Lähdesmäki |
| Petra Pienimäki | Vascular Analysis from Retinal Images Using Machine Learning Methods | Riku Linna |
| Linnéa Hammarberg | Artifical intelligence based prediction of protein complexes formed via transient interactions | Maria Sammalkorpi |
| Cecilia Hansson | Optimization of cell culture models for calpain-2 studies for prostate cancer | Markus Linder |
| Hermanni Jäntti | Cleaning Verification in Pharmaceutical production — Direct measurement of Swab samples with FTIR | Mauri Kostiainen |
| Anna Österberg | Novel use of blood products: Using existing omics data from extracellular vesicles from differently activated platelets to fine-tune modelling of functionality | Mauri Kostiainen |
| Viivi Mäkelä | From biotemplate to wearable sensor: Creating a piezoresistive sensor textile for healthcare applications | Mauri Kostiainen |
| Pinja Salminen | Overproduction of L-tyrosine in Yeast | Paula Jouhten |
| Jessika Katajainen | Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug complexation with cyclodextrin by mechano-chemistry | Sandra Kaabel |
| Miila Palkama-Kestilä | Suun ulkopuolella CAD/CAM-tekniikalla valmistettujen täytteiden vertailututkimus Helsingin kaupungin suun terveydenhuollossa | Jukka Niskanen |
| Saara Räsänen | Efficient use of data and digital twins in the digitalization of pharmaceutical manufacturing | Iiro Harjunkoski |
| Susanna Savander | Analyzing factors affecting drug discovery and repurposing using publicly available data | Paula Jouhten |
| Janna Tukiainen | Investigating the origin of N5-ethyl-tetrahydromethanopterin in the methanogen Methanothermobacter marburgensis | Silvan Scheller |
| Katarina Knuuttila | High-throughput FACS-based screening protocol for the optimization of biomolecular click-reactions in vivo | Sesilja Aranko |
| Micaela Lemström | Optimization of wet strength resin in the tissue paper making process | Thaddeus Maloney |
| Rosa Phan | Investigating type V secretion in Komagataeibacter spp. | Rahul Mangayil |
| Aura Relander | Exploring the antifungal activity of sourdough & baker’s yeast in extending bread shelf life | Paula Jouhten |
| Inga Räty | Fractionation and purification of biocrude oils | Olli Dahl |
| Nhi Le | Comparison of carbon, energy and CO2 efficiency of plastic recycling routes | Ville Alopaeus |
Companies where Life Science Technologies studens have done their master's theses
List of companies, research institutes and other places where students have done their master's theses you will find here.