School of Science

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All of Aalto in one programme: the new Bachelor’s Programme in Technology, Business and Design starts in 2027

The programme suits curious students with multiple interests. After a shared first year, you'll focus on technology, business or design.

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Highly sought-after EU funding for three Aalto University researchers

The projects focus on atomically precise materials-engineering, LED-based thermal management and quantum methods in distributed networks.

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Our experts in the media

Vili Lehdonvirta, phóto: Mikko Raskinen, Aalto University

Vili Lehdonvirta in the New York Times (external link)

Oxford researchers mapped the world’s AI data centers.

Päivi Törmä leads the SuperC 2033 consortium, which has just received substantial funding from two Finnish foundations. Photo: Mikko Raskinen/Aalto University

Päivi Törmä in New Scientist (external link)

Prof. Törmä explains how quantum geometry can be a tool for creating new materials.

From left: Mikko Sams, Pärttyli Rinne and Linda Henriksson.

Pärttyli Rinne and others in Newsweek (external link)

Scientists Reveal Where the Brain Feels Love—and Which Type Is Strongest

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Keep in touch: a friend book for building your student network

A student team designed a friend book for Aalto University Shop to help students build contacts and make connections.
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Research & Art, University Published:

New podcast explores Finnish contributions to artificial intelligence

Researchers Arno Solin ja Eric Malmi interview pioneers, entrepreneurs and experts about the AI field's history, disruptive consequences and the probability of humanity's destruction.
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For Aalto community Studies Published:

Teacher: boost students’ employability and wellbeing by reporting corporate collaboration on your courses

Please add details of company and organisational collaboration on your courses in the course syllabus in MyCourses
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Autumn 2026 Finnish courses for international personnel in the metropolitan area universities

Aalto University offers Finnish language study opportunities to its employees in autumn 2026.

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Public defences

Public defence in Computer Science, MSc Prakhar Verma

Scalable Probabilistic Inference for Sequential Stochastic Models (Title of the thesis)
Ask a Data Agent, weekly RDM support hour, 1-2 PM on Zoom
For Aalto community Support for teams, Training to support research

Aalto Data Agents' weekly support hour on Zoom

Join and ask anything about research data management and open science.
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Public defences

Public defence in the field of Engineering Physics, MSc Koushik Swaminathan

How interactions let some particles move while others remain trapped in a flat-band system.
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Public defences

Public defence in the field of Computer Science, MSc Jacopo Bufalino

On the security of the Software Supply chain for the Cloud (Title of the thesis).
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Information about the management and administration of the School of Science.

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