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Do you know just how important you are?

The year 2020 will remain in history as the year of the COVID19 outbreak. As research on the cure for the virus has increased, so has research on the effects of the pandemic on wellbeing and welfare. One of the areas of interest for researchers and practitioners…

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Vesiturvallisuuden erikoisnumero

4 September 2020 Vesitalous is a Finnish professional journal which has readership across academic, governance, and public fields. The latest issue, co-edited by our Associate Professor Marko Keskinen, covered wide range of approaches to water security. The journal (in Finnish)…

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Link between Chinese dams & Mekong drought?

Our researchers recently published a critical nature on the drivers of the Mekong region droughts. The 2019-20 drought has triggered concerns and highlighted the need for research on the communities, information, and regional cooperation. Our doctoral student Marko Kallio and…

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Chinese sustainable water resources – the role of industries

Dandan Zhao is a postdoctoral researcher in Water & Development Research Group – her research concentrates on water footprints and water resources regulation. In this post, she enlightens her experience in water footprint assessment at sectoral scale and her new…

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Lessons learned how to do your PhD!

Our colleague Hafsa Munia defended her thesis successfully in February 2020 – what are her key advice for phd students?   Is Ph.D. a job or I am still a student? While everyone else is settled in job, I was still thinking…

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Associate Professor Keskinen!

Our Senior University Lecturer Marko Keskinen has been appointed as Associate Professor at the Department of Built Environment. Read more about his career so far and his thoughts about the importance of water in the societies and their development, and related…

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The daunting task of grocery shopping

Anna Chrysafi has a deep interest in food and a research background in aquatic sciences. She joined the water and development group, as she wanted to challenge herself and learn more about sustainability issues and other natural resources. In this…

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Aalto Distinguished Professor Varis

Head of our research group, professor Olli Varis has been appointed Aalto Distinguished Professor. The title is awarded to professors of exceptional academic merit. Varis received his award in the Aalto Day one opening ceremony on September 3rd. ‘Professor Varis…

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How much water do you eat?

Our doctoral candidate, M.Sc. (tech.) Mika Jalava will defend his doctoral dissertation this Friday, 30.8.2019 at noon in Aalto, TU1 room in Maarintie 8. His dissertation, “The water we eat: Methods for estimating water use of diets in changing food” is…

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Master’s Thesis in a research group: threat or opportunity? 

When I came up with the title “The value of open-source based river streamflow estimation in Southeast Asia”, my attempt to write a Master’s Thesis was a lot easier said than done; attempting to compose an outlook on both sought-after uncertainty estimation of hydrostreamer  and on how it could…

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