AI for Health — FCAI (external link)
FCAI Special Interest Group: AI for Health
Key Research Area: Health and well-being
Aalto University’s expertise in health and well-being is broad-based, with strong clusters of research groups such as in medical devices, health AI, neuroscience, and care-facility architecture. We engage in deep collaboration with bedside and other R&D partners, including for already 45 years with the Helsinki and Uusimaa provincial hospital district HUS.
Health and well-being is one of Aalto University’s seven key research areas. The university has a strong, decades-long track record in health and well-being (H&W), in both research results and in facilitating adoption and commercialization. Indeed, at Aalto University, the basic research results that we pursue are being developed into innovations, applications, and services for end users, with several notable success stories, including from the earliest decades of H&W research. In this way, we are constantly making efforts to respond to societal needs.
Within our internal health and well-being (H&W) community, we have the following clusters of expertise.
- Devices and related methods and analytical tools
- Neuroscience
- Bio- and chemical technologies
- AI and data science
- Architecture, buildings, and design
- Management and economics
The pages linked from above describe each expertise cluster and list the professors primarily associated with that cluster.
The Aalto Networking Platform brings together our researchers and external parties for multidisciplinary collaboration in the area of health and well-being.
Interested in joining us? Read more about our tenure track career system.
Upcoming events
Aalto Readers' Club
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Aalto Readers' Club
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Aalto Welcome Fair 2026
Welcome, new students, to the Aalto Welcome Fair on 27th August 2026!
Aalto Readers' Club
Join our dynamic book club at Aalto University!Latest news in this area
Mind & Study - toolbox for being well in studies (3cr) coming up
Popular course "Mind & Study - toolbox for being well in studies" will be organized in Finnish, English and Swedish in the 2nd and 4th period!
1 in 4 mental health patients hurt by wording in electronic health records, finds study
Errors, disrespectful language and information perceived as unnecessary in electronic health records can feel offensive to patients
New ultrasonic needle yields samples 2–3 times larger, potentially reshaping cancer diagnostics
Developed at Aalto University over several years, a new ultrasonic needle for tumour diagnostics has been trialled in collaboration with Helsinki University Hospital (HUS). According to the resulting peer-reviewed study, salivary gland tumours could be diagnosed with far greater precision using the innovative needle.
Join refreshing Take a Break! moments in campus until 26.5.
UniSport's Take a Break! until 26.5.!Flagships and Centres of Excellence
GeneCellNano – Gene, Cell and Nano - Academy of Finland (external link)
The GeneCellNano flagship is hosted by Aalto, Universities of Eastern Finland, Helsinki, Oulu, and Finnish Red Cross Blood Service.
Centre of Excellence in Life-Inspired Hybrid Materials (LIBER) (external link)
LIBER aims to create dynamic and soft hybrid materials with capability to learn, adapt or respond to the environment.
Departments in this area
Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
We study system-level dynamic functions of the human brain, mind and body.
Department of Computer Science
We are an internationally-oriented community and home to world-class research in modern computer science.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation is an ecosystem where scientists and engineers from different fields of microsystems, electrical engineering and automation work together to solve the most challenging scientific problems.
Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems
Enabling bio and circular economy
Featured research bodies and networks
Aalto Brain Centre
Strategic initiative of neuroscience and neurotechnology
Biodesign Finland (external link)
Biodesign Finland improves medical care with a novel entrepreneurial program for selected interdisciplinary teams and creates new business.
Infrastructure
Aalto NeuroImaging (ANI) Infrastructure
ANI research infrastructure houses three functional neuroimaging modalities, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at Advanced Magnetic Imaging (AMI) Centre, magnetoencephalography (MEG) at MEG Core and Aalto Behavioral Laboratory (ABL).
BioMag Laboratory (external link)
BioMag is a brain imaging laboratory at the Helsinki University Hospital co-hosted by Aalto and University of Helsinki.
Science-IT
Infrastructure for high-level computational research.
Micronova
Tietotie 3
Health Technology Research Infrastructure
The Health Technology Research Infrastructure consists of 13 laboratories at the Otaniemi campus and is part of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation. The laboratories provide high-quality medical technology equipment to several research groups and for teaching purposes in the Health Technology Engineering Programme.
Contact
Jussi Nissilä
Manager, Health and well-being, Key research area, Aalto Networking Platform