Category Archives: openness

Catalysis research group publishes diffusion–reaction model code

Written by Jänis Järvilehto (https://linkedin.com/in/janisj) The Catalysis research group has published its first-ever open code! Coined DReaM-ALD, the recently published Matlab script provides an implementation of a diffusion–reaction model developed by Ylilammi et al. (J. Appl. Phys. 123, 205301 (2018), … Continue reading

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History of ALD – ALD stories podcast Episode 2 with Riikka Puurunen

On October 16, 2020, ALD stories podcast Episode 2 was published, where I (Riikka Puurunen) had an honor of being interviewed by Lie Luo and Patrick Gonzalez of Beneq. Episode 2 is about the history of atomic layer deposition (ALD), but … Continue reading

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New Zenodo community! ALD saturation profile open data. Ideas? Questions?

Yesterday, I created a new Zenodo community: “ALD saturation profile open data”, https://zenodo.org/communities/ald-saturation-profile-open-data/. In my research group, we intend to use this first for sharing experimental saturation profile data related to a publication we are writing (access through the ChemRxiv, https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.12366623). … Continue reading

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Virtual guest speaker with Bent group Stanford – other groups interested in an ALD fundamentals talk?

Yesterday, I participated a Prof. Bent group meeting (Stanford), giving again the presentation we gave jointly with Prof. Ruud van Ommen at the recent ALD conference (see previous post), entitled “On the fundamentals of ALD: the importance of getting the … Continue reading

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Three years as a tenure track professor at Aalto University

Three years ago, I started at Aalto University as professor (associate professor, catalysis science and technology). I started in February 2017, and worked 60% of time for the first half year, being at my former employer VTT for 40%. In … Continue reading

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Online lecture recordings awarded as Educational action of the year 2019, Aalto CHEM

On December 12, at Dean’s Glögg event, several recognitions were shared at Aalto University School of Chemical Engineering (Aalto CHEM). I (Riikka Puurunen) was among the happy ones to receive a recognition this year – together with Lauri Partanen – for … Continue reading

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Panopto records: November Networking – ALD at Aalto University

At the “November Networking – ALD at Aalto University” event on November 29, 2019, we experimented with recording (some of the) talks with the Panopto lecture capture system available at Aalto University. The records have now been finalized. Each author … Continue reading

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Happy 45th anniversary, ALD in Finland – Aalto ALD OpenLearning opens

Exactly forty-five years ago, on November 29, 1974, the first patent on Atomic Layer Epitaxy (FIN 52359) was filed by Suntola and Antson. Today, the Aalto ALD OpenLearning site is opened for public. You can access it via the general link https://openlearning.aalto.fi/ and the direct link https://openlearning.aalto.fi/course/view.php?id=100. Above … Continue reading

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“Hands up for mistake, we were idiots” – Some words on plagiarism

In the previous posts (post 1, post 2, post 3, post 4, post 5) related to research ethics, plagiarism was mentioned many times as a form of research misconduct. Plagiarism is among the “big three” in the international categorisation of research misconduct: Fabrication, Falsification, … Continue reading

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Experimenting with Zenodo (.org)

Open Science, Open Data, Open Access, Open Code, Open Teaching, open … what else? I am in favor of openness in science. However: if you want to publish e.g. a poster abstract, or a dataset, how to do it in … Continue reading

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