Doctoral education - everything there is to know about doctoral education at Aalto University

Find doctoral student study guides, supervision instructions, doctoral programmes, support for wellbeing, current news and events and more! 

This hub is for all doctoral students, supervising professors and thesis advisors, as well as applicants and others interested in doctoral education at Aalto University.

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Doctoral education pilot

We are hiring 178 new doctoral researchers - get your doctorate from Aalto

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Info session series for doctoral students

Get information and ask questions about various essential issues related to doctoral studies and research.

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Aalto Doctoral Orientation Days

Key information for the first year of doctoral studies - and later!

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How to apply for doctoral studies?

Find out what is required of applicants and what can our doctoral studies offer!

Find out more and apply!
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News and events for doctoral students and faculty

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Apply to the autumn 2024 virtual courses in the field of energy technology!

The Unite! -alliance is organizing virtual courses in the autumn semester 2024 in the field of energy technology. Students can apply to the courses in June and in May.
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Call for mentors: Compassion mentoring in peer groups for doctoral students in autumn 2024

We are looking for doctoral students interested in becoming mentors in compassion-themed peer groups.
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Maintenance break in ACRIS on 10 June 2024

Maintenance break in ACRIS on 10 June 2024
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A faster and clearer path from research to business 

Aalto University’s renewed process enables technology transfer in just 30 days 
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Conferences, Workshops

Sustainability Science Days 2024

Finland will be the hot spot for sustainability related research, innovations, and solutions in June 2024 when Sustainability Science Days (SSD) unites with one of the world's biggest sustainability congresses – the Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress (SRI).
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

A weekly Zoom room to come and ask us anything about research data and open science: data management, data storage, data analysis, data sharing, reproducibility, responsible conduct of research, data privacy, ethics.
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For Aalto community Lectures and seminars

CMET Coffee and Science - June

Do you have an interesting scientific topic and you would like to share it? Have you been working on a tool that could be beneficial for others? Or are you perhaps interested in presenting your research? Any topic related to science is welcome to our Coffee & Science monthly networking session!
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Academic events, Students

Unite! Summer School: What Computers and AI canꞌt do

The summer school reflects on errors, malfunctioning, and limitations of technology in the digital age.

Next public defences at Aalto University

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Public defences

Public defence in Biomedical Engineering, M.Sc. Timo Nurmi

Processing of the position and movement sense in the brain was studied using neuroimaging and evoked movements of the limbs.
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Public defences

Public defence in Automation, Systems and Control Engineering, M.Sc. Arthur Vieira

Wetting Characterization of Hydrophobic Opaque Surfaces and Micro Fibers (title of the thesis)
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Public defences

Public defence in Computer Science, M.Sc. (Tech) Gazi Illahi

Remote rendering enables complex graphics rendering based experiences to be delivered on resource constrained devices. By leveraging cloud computing resources for remote rendering, new application paradigms like cloud gaming and cloud XR can be realized. By optimizing different aspects of remote rendering, it may be possible to improve the quality of experience of end users of such applications.
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Public defence in Electronics integration and reliability, M.Sc.(Tech.) Samuel Rantataro

Carbon nanotube -based sensors fulfill all the requirements of brain-on-a-chip devices, paving way for broader adoption of the technology.
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Doctoral page index

Index of all aalto.fi pages about doctoral education

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Doctoral student forms

Doctoral education services' forms for doctoral students.

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Doctoral education services

We support doctoral students, supervising professors, thesis advisors and doctoral programme directors in matters related to doctoral studies.

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