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.
Key research area contact
Dr. Markus Mäkelä
Upcoming events
Latest news in this area
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AllWell? student survey of 2024 reaches 36% of target group
The survey was emailed to all Aalto University's second-year bachelor’s students and first-year master’s students.
Risto Ilmoniemi: The most important thing is having confidence that others will be there to support and help when needed
'I have thought many times that I am going to give up the whole thing: this is not going to work. But I recover quickly: often already on the next day, optimism is reborn.'
Respond to the quality survey on restaurants 11. – 17.3.2024
All respondents are entered into a draw to win, e.g. lunch tickets.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
Science-IT provides infrastructure for high-level computational research at Aalto University and is coordinated by the School of Science.
Micronova
Tietotie 3
Featured research bodies
Healthcare Engineering, Management and Architecture
The Institute of Healthcare Engineering, Management and Architecture (HEMA) is a research group that concentrates on the production of health services and their development.
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.
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