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Neste and Aalto University to begin strategic research cooperation
Aalto University news, 10.10.2018: Neste and Aalto University have today signed a letter of intent on strategic cooperation and the creation of a new research portfolio. The aim of the cooperation is to increase Finnish chemical industry expertise in chemical … Continue reading
Honoured to receive the Berzelius Prize
Aalto CHEM news, 27.8.2018: Berzelius Prize for Professor Riikka Puurunen The Swedish Catalysis Society presented the prize to Professor Puurunen in Copenhagen on 27 August 2018. The Berzelius Medal is given in the honour of the famous Swedish researcher Berzelius. The … Continue reading
2018 Millennium Technology Prize to Dr. Tuomo Suntola
In May, the 2018 Millennium Technology Prize was awarded to Dr. Tuomo Suntola for Atomic Layer Deposition. Once more, congratulations to Suntola for the extremely well deserved prize, and thanks to the international community for the broad support behind the … Continue reading
Marita Niemelä Alumna of the Year 2018 of the School of Chemical Engineering
Congratulations to Dr. Marita Niemelä! Photo by Riikka Puurunen, 22.8.2018 (Twitter). More on Aalto CHEM news, 27.8.2018, by Helena Seppälä, copied for completeness below. Curiosity and constant learning are the driving forces for the Vice President, Engineering and Technology at Neste … Continue reading
Prof. De Jong’s lecture on catalysis in Aalto University Youtube channel
As mentioned in the previous blog post, Prof. Krijn De Jong from Utrecht University, current holder of the EFCATS Francoise Gault lecture award, gave an inspiring plenary lecture “Effects of size and location of metal nanoparticles in catalysis” at the … Continue reading
Finnish Young Scientist Forum on Catalysis 2018 – report of the event
On April 6 this year, I organized the event “Finnish Young Scientist Forum on Catalysis 2018 (FYSFC2018)” for the Finnish Catalysis Society. In the newest Katse 1/2018 newsletter of the society, a report of the event is published by my colleague José … Continue reading
New article in press, by Mäkelä et al.
New accepted article from the Aalto Catalysis group: Mäkelä, Lahti, Jaatinen, Romar, Hu, Lassi, Puurunen, Karinen, Study of Ni, Pt and Ru catalysts on wood-based activated carbon supports and their activity in 2-methylfuran production, ChemCatChem, Published online 25th of April. … Continue reading
Spam, spam, spam…
A sad part of blogging are spam comments. Screen capture of the latest portion of spam comments below. It would be great if there was less of these, or if I would not need to mark them individually as spam… … Continue reading
Thank you for the photos!
Thank you for the professors’ photography session in April 2018, Anni Hanén, Mikko Raskinen, Aalto University. Finalised photos, in full resolution, available at: http://materialbank.aalto.fi:80/public/2c71ee1bc8FE.aspx. Posted by Riikka Puurunen
Podcast (in Finnish) on catalysis in YLE Tiedeykkönen
A radio podcast to explain catalysis and its importance to a broader public has recently been made by journalist Mari Heikkilä. In the podcast, professors at the University of Jyväskylä, Prof. Karoliina Honkala and Prof. Petri Pihko, are interviewed. The podcast … Continue reading
