Designs for a Cooler Planet
Kurkista huomiseen Aalto-yliopiston suurimmassa näyttelyssä! Avoinna 1.9.–30.10.2026.
The Nordic Tipping Point
Osana Designs for a Cooler Planet -näyttelyä järjestettävän tapahtuman tavoitteena on tarjota yleiskuva keikahduspisteistä ja niiden aikajänteestä, tunnistaa pohjoismaisia keikahduspisteitä, tarkastella niiden alueellisia vaikutuksia sekä pohtia reittejä kohti kestävää tulevaisuutta. Ohjelma yhdistää asiantuntija puheenvuorot ja -paneeli edistääkseen merkityksellistä vuoropuhelua ilmastotoimista ja -tutkimuksesta.
Noudatamme tapahtumassa Aalto-yliopiston turvallisemman tilan periaatteita.
Tapahtuman tavoitteena on tarjota yleiskuva kynnysilmiöistä ja niiden aikajänteistä, tarkastella Pohjoismaille tyypillisiä kynnysilmiöitä, kuten AMOC-kiertoliikkeen romahtamista, sekä pohtia niiden alueellisia vaikutuksia ja samalla hahmotella polkuja kohti kestävää tulevaisuutta. Tavoitteena on lisätä tietoisuutta ilmaston kynnysilmiöistä Aalto-yliopistossa ja sen sidosryhmien keskuudessa, edistää näiden kriittisten kynnysten ymmärtämistä ja tunnistaa konkreettisia toimintatapoja. Ohjelma yhdistää keynote-puheenvuoroja, asiantuntijapaneeleja ja osallistavia pyöreän pöydän keskusteluja edistääkseen vaikuttavaa vuoropuhelua ilmastotoimista ja -tutkimuksesta. Nordic Tipping Point -tapahtuma on osa Design for a Cooler Planet -näyttelyä — Aalto-yliopiston vuoden päätapahtumanäyttelyä.
Kohdeyleisö
Nordic Tipping Point on avoin kaikille. Toivotamme tervetulleiksi kaikki Aallon opiskelijat, henkilökunnan ja tutkijat sekä keskeiset ympäristöpäätöksentekijät keskustelemaan kanssamme kestävän tulevaisuuden polusta.
Ohjelma
*Ohjelmaan voi tulla muutoksia.
| 9.30 | Kahvi & tee |
| 10.00 | Tervetulosanat |
| 10.10 | Asiantuntijapuheenvuorot |
| 11.05 | Paneelikeskustelu |
| 11.50 | Loppusanat |
| 12.00 | Tapahtuma päättyy |
Puhujamme
Lisätietoja tulossa pian
Keynote speakers
Nico Wunderling
Nico Wunderling is a climate scientist and Professor for Computational Earth System Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt. He is also a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). His research focuses on the resilience and stability of the Earth system under climate change, particularly climate tipping elements such as polar ice sheets, ocean circulation systems, and tropical forests.
Wunderling investigates how these systems may undergo abrupt and potentially irreversible transitions as global warming intensifies. A central focus of his work is understanding tipping cascades - interactions in which changes in one part of the Earth system can trigger shifts in others. Wunderling’s research also explores social transformations (social tipping points) towards sustainability, including pathways for accelerating societal change in response to the climate crisis.
Before his professorship, Wunderling performed his PhD at PIK and held joint positions at PIK and the Stockholm Resilience Centre and was a guest researcher at Princeton University. His work contributes to international efforts to better understand climate risks, planetary resilience, and pathways toward a sustainable future.
Susanne Ditlevsen
Susanne Ditlevsen is professor of statistics and stochastic models in biology at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research interests center around statistics for stochastic processes, biostatistics, mathematical modeling, nonlinear dynamics, climate changes, particularly tipping points, ecology in the Arctic, and neuroscience. She is the President of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. In 2023 she published a paper together with climate physicist Peter Ditlevsen in Nature Communications where they predicted a high risk of collapse in this century of one of the major tipping elements in the climate, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, if we continue greenhouse gas emissions at the current rate.
Expert Panel
Corinna Coupette
Corinna Coupette is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Aalto University, where they lead the Telos Lab conducting research in the intersection of law, computer science, and complex systems. At Aalto’s School of Science, they serve as the Program Director of the interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Information Networks. Coupette is also a Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, a CodeX Affiliate, and a member of ELLIS. Since January 2026, they have been leading the ERC Starting Grant Project CompLex: Toward a Computational Theory of Legal Complexity (2026–2030).
The overarching goal of Coupette's research is to understand how one can combine code, data, and law to better model, measure, and manage complex systems (e.g., contemporary information societies). To this end, they explore novel ways of connecting computer science and law, such as using algorithms to collect and analyze legal data as networks, or formalizing and implementing legal and mathematical desiderata for responsible data-centric machine learning with graphs. Currently, Coupette is particularly interested in computational legal theory – i.e., (1) designing computational methods to build a data-driven theory of legal systems and (2) understanding legal systems as computational systems – with implications for how we approach challenges like regulating AI, protecting democratic institutions, and realizing the sustainability transition.
Their interdisciplinary research is enabled by their undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate education in law and computer science. Inter alia, Coupette holds PhDs in both subjects, having written their first thesis on Legal Network Science at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance (Dr. iur., 2018, summa cum laude) and their second thesis on Exploring Graphs in Many Dimensions at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Dr. rer. nat., 2023, summa cum laude).
Matti Kuittinen
Dr. Matti Kuittinen is an Associate Professor of Sustainable Construction at Aalto University´s Department of Architecture. His research is focused on climate impacts and circular economy in the built environment, as well as in the development of new building materials and methods. During his work at the Ministry of the Environment of Finland, Kuittinen developed the national whole life carbon assessment method, coordinated Nordic collaboration, and initiated the Nordic Bauhaus programme. As an architect, he has designed experimental sustainable buildings and participated in humanitarian construction operations.
Minna Halme
Minna Halme is professor of Sustainability Management at Aalto University School of Business and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Organization & Environment. She leads Sustainability in Business research at her organization and is co-founder of cross-disciplinary Creative Sustainability Master Programme. Her research focuses on co-creation of sustainability innovations, circular economy, system-level sustainability impacts of business, and contextualized innovating for poverty alleviation in the Global South. She is co-founder of Aalto University’s cross-disciplinary Creative Sustainability Master programme, and Aalto Global Impact.
She has received the Academy of Finland and other national awards for the societal impact of her research and several international scientific awards including the 2023 Distinguished Winner award for Responsible Research in Management (RRBM). She leads interdisciplinary Strategic Research Council funded project on Co-innovating Sustainable Textile Systems (finix.aalto.fi), and co-leads transdisciplinary research sustainability transitions of Nordic forest industry (ForTran).
Mika Järvinen
Mika Järvinen is Associate Professor and the Head of Energy Conversion and Systems research group in Aalto University. He works also as the vice-head of the Department of Energy and Mechanical Engineering and is the Director of Aalto's H2 Innovation Center since it's founding, September of 2023. Mika’s research focuses on carbon capture and utilization by oxyfuel combustion and Ca-looping CO2 capture, impacts of large scale-wind production, and production of Sustainable Aviation Fuels, several P2X solutions, energy storage systems, and H2 technologies. Mika is also a co-author and editor with Hanna Paulomäki of a book "Renewable Energy Engineering within Planetary Boundaries - A textbook for energy engineers", published by Springer Nature, and which has been downloaded already 82k times since its publication in May 2025.
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