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SCI Master's Thesis Guide 2023-

• Recommendation for submitting the final version of the thesis to your supervisor for evaluation  = Please discuss about the submission with your supervisor beforehand and take possible holidays into account when planning on the schedule. Submit the final version of the thesis to your supervisor for evaluation according the recommended schedule. The supervisors need time to read, evaluate and write the statements of the theses. 
• Deadlines for submitting applications 2023   = The administrative deadlines are for submitting applications for 1) thesis topic, supervisor and advisor approval application, 2) submitting the thesis for evaluation for administration and 3) submitting request for graduation. 
•   Degree Programme Committee meetings  = The DPC meetings approves the thesis topics and final master' thesis.

What I have to take into account regarding the deadlines?

• It is  not possible  to submit a thesis topic approval and final thesis for evaluation at the same time. Thesis topic must have been approved in a DPC meeting before and valid when submitting the thesis for evaluation. Thesis topic approval is the starting point for working on your thesis. Send thesis topic approval document as soon as you have agreed with the topic with your supervisor.  
• It  is possible  to submit a final thesis for evaluation and apply for graduation at the same time. Please remember to keep your supervisor informed, and to leave enough time (4 weeks) for the supervisor  to read the final thesis and write a statement.   
• Take possible holidays (summer, winter) into account   when planning on the schedule , e.g. on giving the thesis presentation and submitting the final thesis to your supervisor for evaluation! 
• When you are planning to submit your thesis for evaluation, consider the deadlines according to your graduation and study right. You need to be present as a student when applying for thesis evaluation. This is critical especially at the end of semesters in July and December.

What happens after the DPC meetings?

• Thesis topic application: Approximately a few workdays after the DPC meeting you'll get an automated e-mail from eAge of an accepted thesis topic application. 
• Graduation request: Approximately a week after the DPC meeting all the graduation requests will be registered in Sisu.

Thesis collection: By subject

• Aalto Thesis Database
• For students: Publicity of a thesis and publishing your thesis
• Theses from other universities

Theses and dissertations by subjects

Searching documents in aaltodoc, basic search.

Basic search searches the word(s) from Aaltodoc’s metadata fields, abstract texts and full-text files available in Aaltodoc.

You can browse the archive by Issue Date, Author, Title, Subject and Department. You can browse either all archived documents or documents in a specific collection.

Building your search query

Combine, expand, or limit your search with Boolen operators AND , OR , NOT . Write the operators with capital letters.  

• Searching sustainable AND fashion will return search results with both these words in them.
• Searching sustainable OR environmental will return search results with either of these words in them.
• Searching architecture NOT computer will return search results with "architecture" but not including "computer”.
• Use (...) parenthesis to group query words, for instance technology AND (sustainable OR environmental) .

Use * as a wildcard character to search for variants of a word, for instance sustainab* (sustainable, sustainability). Use ? as a wildcard to replace a single letter, for instance wom?n for woman and women. Use "..." quotation marks, if you want to search for a compound term, for instance "global warming" .

How to get printed theses from the archive?

Printed theses are stored in the archive of Harald Herlin Learning Centre. Theses in the archive cannot be borrowed but they can be ordered to be read in the Learning Centre premises. Please send your orders to us by email oppimiskeskus [at] aalto.fi. Mention the name of the author and the name of the thesis in your email.

Ordered items are available for reading on the next business day after 12 am if not otherwise agreed.

How to access the electronic theses not available on Aaltodoc?

All customers can read the electronic theses locally at the Aalto University Harald Herlin Learning Centre's workstations. Find our contact information and service hours from our web page. I Learning Centre

Master’s , licentiate , and doctoral theses with restricted access

• Use the Aalto Thesis Database remote desktop connection to Aaltodoc. I Aalto Thesis Database instructions
• Aalto students, faculty and staff can use the Aalto Thesis Database also outside the Learning Centre premises.

Locked bachelor's theses

• Log in to Learning Centre's workstations and open the thesis file from Aaltodoc.
• Aalto faculty and staff can access the full texts of bachelor's theses by logging in to Aaltodoc with personal Aalto ID.

Requesting the thesis file from the Learning Centre

You can also request the electronic theses not available in the open network by sending an email to the Learning Centre. Our email address is oppimiskeskus [at] aalto.fi. Please note that only private customers can make requests. Please mention the author’s name, title of the thesis and year of publication in your request.

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Postdoctoral researcher in the field of sustainability in packaging in the Science Translation Framework for Sustainable Bioproducts Innovation (SciSustain)

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Aalto University is where science and art meet technology and business. We shape a sustainable future by making research breakthroughs in and across our disciplines, sparking the game changers of tomorrow and creating novel solutions to major global challenges. Our community is made up of 13 000 students, 400 professors, and more than 4 500 other faculty and staff working on our dynamic campus in Espoo, Greater Helsinki, Finland. Diversity is part of who we are, and we actively work to ensure our community’s diversity and inclusiveness. This is why we warmly encourage qualified candidates from all backgrounds to join our community.

The School of Chemical Engineering is one of the six schools of Aalto University. It combines natural sciences and engineering in a unique way.

We are now looking for a

Postdoctoral researcher in the field of sustainability in packaging in the Science Translation Framework for Sustainable Bioproducts Innovation (SciSustain) - a Business Finland (BF) Project

Sustainable development requires science-based decision-making to improve and implement solutions that mitigate climate change. However, translating scientific findings is complex and requires a collaborative, multidisciplinary, holistic, robust, and reliable approach to exploring the economic, technical, environmental, and social aspects of bioproduct solutions. SciSustain combines translational engineering research and consolidated sustainability methods in a framework for supporting sustainable bioproduct innovation. The framework is designed to assess innovations and suggest novel approaches to improving sustainability and circularity in packaging.

This project is under the Valmet Beyond Circularity and brings together anchor firms such as UPM, Stora Enso and Metsä as well as Paptic - a rapidly growing SME, and LignEasy and Boreal Bioproducts - startups challenging the status quo of side streams valorization. These seven companies have united forces with Aalto and a multidisciplinary team to translate science. Are you up for this challenge? Join us!

Your responsibility and goals

Build mentoring skills by helping and supervising younger researchers.

Lead and write peer-reviewed articles for high impact journals.

Participate in events, give expert talks, support in teaching and workshops.

Network with scientists and industry to support your research as well as the development of new research proposals.

Grant reporting, managing and monitoring.

Increase your employability by demonstrating leadership and excellence measuring sustainability of applied research solutions/concepts. A growing need in academia and industry!

The postdoctoral researcher (PDF) will be helping the PI and experts in managing the project, supervising students, reporting to BF, gathering data coming from literatures and the industry partners to assess the sustainability of proposed concepts with regards to economic, social and environmental feasibility and circularity. The position is available immediately.

Your network, project and team

The position is open to the Sustainable Bioproduct Innovations group headed by Prof. Luana Dessbesell. A highly multidisciplinary team seeking to support the development of truly sustainable bioproducts innovations. If you see yourself wondering what is and what isn't sustainable, please apply and join us. We are working with hard-science evidence to help speed up the development of solutions that can mitigate climate change. The research group is about eight researchers now and growing, we care about each other and are people centered, we believe that we can only deliver excellence if we are doing well.

The Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems (Bio2) is one of the three departments in the School of Chemical Engineering at Aalto University, has an internationally leading reputation in basic and applied research for the development of advanced materials from natural resources. It is one of the leading European research and higher education institutions in the field of sustainable chemistry and engineering based on the utilization of renewable resources. Bio2 aims to contribute to the development of novel solutions to move towards sustainable primary production and processing systems that can produce materials with fewer inputs, less environmental impact and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Within bioscience, the department has research in bioprocess technology, molecular biotechnology, enzyme technology, metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, biomolecular, and biohybrid materials. Other strengths of the department include sustainable materials and products based on lignocellulose, ranging from nanomaterials to novel cellulose-based textiles.

Your experience and ambitions

The candidate is expected to have:

Recently obtained PhD or doctoral degree in chemical engineering, environmental engineering, pulp and paper technology, biorefining, forest products, or similar

Excellent written and oral communication skills in English given the essential role to communicate with the project consortium members.

Knowledge in mass and energy balance software

Interest in conducting deskwork (e.g., process modeling and simulation)

Experience with conducting techno-economic analysis

Experience with conducting LCA

Nice to have:

Experience in writing reports and grants

Experience on development of sustainability indicators

Understanding of circular economy

Experience in strategic methodologies for framework design.

What we offer

The postdoctoral researcher position will be filled for two years. The expected starting salary of a postdoctoral researcher is approximately 3900-4100 EUR/month depending on experience.

We work in Otaniemi, Espoo. The Otaniemi campus is a thriving and connected community of 100 nationalities, 13 000 students and 4 500 employees. Life at the transformed campus is vibrant and filled with amazing architecture, calming nature, and a variety of cafes, restaurants, services and good connections along the metro line.

Ready to apply?

If you want to join our community, please submit your application through our online recruitment system no later than 08.06.2024 using the link on Aalto University’s webpage (“Apply now”). If you are an Aalto employee, please apply via Workday system (internal jobs). The submissions will be checked as they arrive.

To apply, please include the following documents in English and as a single pdf document:

1-page maximum motivation letter specific to this project

1 page description of previous relevant research experience

CV with a possible list of publications and the title of your doctoral/PhD thesis

List of references that we may contact.

The position will be filled when a suitable candidate is found.

Want to know more about us and your future colleagues? You can watch these videos: Aalto University – Towards a better world , Aalto People , and Shaping a Sustainable Future . You can also check out our webpage about Aalto and Finland: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/welcome-to-aalto-university-and-finland-info-package and our new virtual campus experience:  https://virtualtour.aalto.fi/ .

For further information about this position, please contact Prof. Luana Dessbesell luana.dessbesell(at)aalto.fi.

About Finland

Finland is a great place for living with or without family – it is a safe, politically stable, and well-organized Nordic society. Finland is consistently ranked high in quality of life and was just listed again as the happiest country in the world: https://worldhappiness.report/news/its-a-three-peat-finland-keeps-top-spot-as-happiest-country-in-world/ . For more information about living in Finland: For international staff | Aalto University  

Aalto University reserves the right for justified reasons to leave the position open, to extend the application period, and to consider candidates who have not submitted applications during the application period.

More about Aalto University:

Aalto.fi youtube.com/user/aaltouniversity linkedin.com/school/aalto-university/ www.facebook.com/aaltouniversity instagram.com/aaltouniversity twitter.com/aaltouniversity

• Published: 15.5.2024
• Updated: 20.5.2024

Master's Thesis Research

Prereq: All course work toward the degree must be completed. Note: Registration for this course is not available via telephone (UK-VIP) or webUK. For enrollment information contact the Graduate School at 257-4905.

Half-time to full-time work on thesis. May be repeated to a maximum of six semesters.

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More leptospirosis cases occur after floods, study shows

by K. W. Wesselink, University of Twente

A recent study, published by researchers at the Faculty of ITC in the International Journal of Health Geographics , has shown that flooding leads to increased leptospirosis cases.

First author, John Ifejube is a recent graduate of the master's program in Spatial Engineering. This publication is a direct result of his thesis on GeoHealth.

Flooding is a climate-related disaster that impacts not only the environment but also the well-being of people. Leptospirosis is a blood infection caused by the bacteria Leptospira. People become infected through interaction with contaminated water or urine.

Infected humans can get headaches, muscle pains, and fevers, but severe forms can lead to kidney failure. More and more studies link the spread of leptospirosis with floods, but it has not been extensively studied, until now.

Master's thesis

For his master's thesis, Ifejube conducted a study on the association between the incidence of leptospirosis and the occurrence of multiple floods in Kerala, India. He found that flooding leads to an increase in leptospirosis cases. His study reveals that flood duration is the most important characteristic of floods that can be used to predict the number of infections. According to his research, severe floods lead to more leptospirosis cases than moderate floods.

He compared leptospirosis cases across three different years in time and space. Specifically, he compared the number of cases in 2018 and 2019, which were years with heavy and moderate flooding respectively, to the number of cases in 2017, a year that did not experience any floods.

For each flood year, he looked at the reported cases three months before, during and three months after the flood. To assess the severity of floods, he determined the population exposed to each flood event using high-resolution satellite images. Finally, he used spatial regression to examine the relationship between post-flood cases and flood extents.

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