Tenure track
Aalto University’s tenure track career system offers a well-supported and clear career path for professor-level academics towards a permanent professorship.
Key Research Area: Health and Wellbeing
Aalto University’s expertise in health and wellbeing 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 wellbeing is one of Aalto University’s seven key research areas. The university has a strong, decades-long track record in health and wellbeing (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 wellbeing (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 wellbeing.
Interested in joining us? Read more about our tenure track career system.
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Latest news in this area
Kristiina "Kiikki" Huotari: I want to be growing goodness
'If you look at things from the perspective of love, you are always looking from the right perspective. Then there is room for everyone.'
Registrations now open to Aalto Wellbeing Week 2024 events
Wellbeing week offers you a lot of events
Finding love: Study reveals where love lives in the brain
Researchers from Aalto University utilised functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity while subjects mulled brief stories related to six different types of love.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 period!Flagships and Centres of Excellence
AI for Health — FCAI (external link)
FCAI Special Interest Group: AI for Health
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.
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
Featured research bodies
Aalto Brain Centre
Strategic initiative of neuroscience and neurotechnology
Sotera (external link)
Sotera is a research unit focusing on basic technology in the social and health sector: design and construction of buildings, related telecommunications technology, information technology and automation of operations as well as instrument technology.
Biodesign Finland (external link)
Biodesign Finland improves medical care with a novel entrepreneurial program for selected interdisciplinary teams and creates new business.