Aalto University

Aalto University, known in Finnish as Aalto-yliopisto and in Swedish as Aalto-universitetet, is a public research university located in Espoo, Finland, created in 2010 by merging the Helsinki University of Technology, the Helsinki School of Economics and the University of Art and Design Helsinki.阿尔托大学（芬兰语 Aalto-yliopisto，瑞典语 Aalto-universitetet）是位于芬兰埃斯波市的公立研究型大学，2010 年由芬兰技术理工、赫尔辛基经济与芬兰艺术设计三校合并而成。

It is the second largest university in Finland with six schools, about seventeen thousand students and four thousand staff, its main campus is in Otaniemi, it is named after the architect Alvar Aalto, and it ranked 126th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings with a score of 63.5.学校是芬兰规模第二大的大学，下设六个学院、约一万七千名学生与四千名教职员，主校区位于奥塔涅米，以建筑师阿尔瓦·阿尔托命名，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中以 63.5 分位列第 126。

History

• In 2004 a working group led by Anne Brunila of the Finnish Ministry of Finance concluded that Finland had too many universities and other tertiary institutions and that they should be consolidated.2004 年，芬兰财政部安妮·布鲁尼拉牵头的工作组得出结论，认为芬兰的高等院校数量过多，应当予以整合。

• In his opening address of 2005 Yrjo Sotamaa, then president of the University of Art and Design Helsinki, proposed merging his own institution with the technical university and the school of economics to create a genuinely interdisciplinary university.2005 年，时任芬兰艺术设计大学校长的耶尔约·索塔马在新年致辞中提议，把该校与芬兰技术理工、赫尔辛基经济合并，组建一所真正跨学科的大学。

• The Ministry of Education appointed Raimo Sailas, a senior Ministry of Finance official, to examine the proposal, and after his group reported that the merger would benefit Finnish academia and the economy the government decided to proceed on 11 November 2007.教育部任命财政部高级官员雷莫·赛拉斯研究该提案，其小组报告认定合并有利于芬兰学术界与经济，政府遂于 2007 年 11 月 11 日决定推进。

• On 29 May 2008 the government announced that the new university would be named after Alvar Aalto for his achievement in technology, economics and art, and on 25 June 2008 the education minister Sari Sarkomaa signed the Aalto University charter in Helsinki with representatives of industry and professional bodies.2008 年 5 月 29 日政府宣布新大学以阿尔瓦·阿尔托命名，以表彰他在技术、经济与艺术三方面的成就，2008 年 6 月 25 日教育部长萨里·萨尔科马在赫尔辛基与产业界及专业团体代表共同签署了阿尔托大学章程。

• On 19 December 2008 the board selected Tuula Teeri as the first president of Aalto University, and the institution began operating on 1 January 2010, at which point Finnish university law was rewritten to let the new foundation hold endowments.2008 年 12 月 19 日理事会选定图拉·特里为首任校长，学校于 2010 年 1 月 1 日正式运行，芬兰大学法同期修订，使新的大学法人得以持有捐赠基金。

• Aalto University reached its target of two hundred million euros in private donations at its founding, and the Finnish state augmented that sum two and a half times, so the endowment campaign became a national event.阿尔托大学在创办时实现了 2 亿欧元私人捐款的目标，芬兰政府另以两倍半额度予以配套，使这场募捐成为全国性事件。

• The largest founding school, the Helsinki University of Technology, was founded in 1849 by Grand Duke Nicholas I, received university status in 1908 and had about 250 professors and fifteen thousand students when the merger was agreed.三校中规模最大的芬兰技术理工由尼古拉一世大公创办于 1849 年，1908 年取得大学地位，合并敲定时约有教授 250 名、学生一万五千人。

• In 1966 the Helsinki University of Technology moved from Hietalahti in downtown Helsinki to the Otaniemi campus, whose master plan and principal buildings were designed by Alvar Aalto, an alumnus of the same school.1966 年，芬兰技术理工从赫尔辛基市中心的希耶塔拉蒂迁入奥塔涅米校区，其总体规划与主要建筑由该校校友阿尔瓦·阿尔托设计。

• The Helsinki School of Economics was established in 1904 by the Finnish business community and gained university status in 1911, operating as a private institution until the state took over its finances in 1974.赫尔辛基经济学院由芬兰商界创办于 1904 年，1911 年取得大学地位，此后长期作为私立机构运行，直至 1974 年国家接管其财务。

• The University of Art and Design Helsinki, founded in 1871, was the largest art university in the Nordic countries, with Leo Mechelin among its first presidents and the Media Centre Lume as its national research centre for audiovisual media.芬兰艺术设计大学创办于 1871 年，是北欧规模最大的艺术类大学，莱奥·梅切林是其早期校长之一，国家视听媒体研究中心 Lume 也设于校内。

• When Aalto University was founded the four science and engineering schools were carved out of the former technical university, and in 2011 the old technology faculty was formally split into the School of Chemical Technology, the School of Electrical Engineering, the School of Engineering and the School of Science and Technology.阿尔托大学成立时，四个理工科学院由原技术大学拆分而来，2011 年原技术大学学部正式拆分为化工学院、电气工程学院、工程学院与科学技术学院。

• In 2012 the Department of Architecture, historically part of the engineering faculty, moved into the arts school, which was renamed the Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture, completing the design-business-science triangle the merger was meant to create.2012 年原属工程学院的建筑学系迁入艺术学院，该院随之更名为阿尔托大学艺术、设计与建筑学院，合并所要打造的设计、商业、科学三角由此成形。

• The university has been organised into six schools since the beginning of 2011, each with its own dean, departments, laboratories and research units, and it is incorporated as the Aalto University Foundation with a seven-member board.自 2011 年初起，学校按六个学院组织，各设院长、下属系、实验室与研究单位，并以「阿尔托大学基金会」的法人形式运作，理事会由七人组成。

• Ilkka Niemela, previously the provost of the university, was elected president in 2017, succeeding Tuula Teeri, and Kristiina Makela serves as provost while Tero Ojanpera chairs the foundation board.曾任校务委员会主席的伊尔卡·涅梅拉于 2017 年当选校长，接替图拉·特里；克里斯蒂娜·迈凯拉担任校务委员会主席，特罗·奥扬佩拉则出任基金会理事会主席。

• The University of Art and Design Helsinki had led art and design education in Finland for over a hundred and thirty-eight years when it merged, and its photography department is home to the Helsinki School, a selected group of photographers treated as a model for teaching.合并时，芬兰艺术设计大学已在芬兰主导艺术与设计教育逾一百三十八年，其摄影系还是「赫尔辛基学派」的所在地——一组被作为教学范式的精选摄影师。

• The Finnish business community founded the economics school in 1904 to train managers for an industrialising country, and after the merger it became the Aalto University School of Business, which offers two bachelor programmes and thirteen master's programmes.芬兰商界于 1904 年创办经济学院，为工业化国家培养管理人才，合并后其成为阿尔托大学商学院，提供两个本科项目与十三个硕士项目。

• Aalto Entrepreneurship Society, known as Aaltoes, is run by students across every faculty and organises the university's start-up programmes, one of the clearest institutional bridges between the three founding cultures.阿尔托创业社（Aaltoes）由各学院学生共同运营，承办学校的创业项目，是三校创始文化之间最清晰的机构桥梁之一。

• In a 2017 analysis by the Times Higher Education, Aalto University was ranked fifty-fifth among technology challenger universities, a category created to compare young technical institutions rather than ancient ones.在《泰晤士高等教育》2017 年的分析中，阿尔托大学在「科技新锐大学」类别中列第 55 位，该类别专为比较新兴技术院校而非古老大学而设。

• In 2021 Aalto University was ranked sixth globally in the QS World University Rankings by subject for art and design, keeping that position in the 2023 edition, and the same table placed it forty-eighth in architecture and the built environment.2021 年，阿尔托大学在 QS 世界大学学科排名中位列艺术与设计全球第 6，2023 年版仍保持该位置，同一榜单的建筑与建成环境专业列全球第 48。

Academics

• The university had 17,235 students in 2023, of whom 7,475 were undergraduates and 6,466 postgraduates, including 3,294 doctoral students, so graduate students are close to half of the whole body.2023 年学校共有学生 17,235 人，其中本科 7,475 人、研究生 6,466 人（含博士生 3,294 人），研究生接近全体学生的一半。

• Academic staff numbered 3,442 including 413 professors in the same year, with total staff of 4,884 and administrative staff of 1,442, and the endowment stood at 1,475 million euros in 2024 against an annual budget of about 450 million euros.同年学术人员 3,442 人，其中教授 413 人，教职员工总数 4,884 人、行政人员 1,442 人，2024 年捐赠基金规模达 14.75 亿欧元，年度预算约 4.5 亿欧元。

• The six schools are arts, design and architecture, business, chemical technology, electrical engineering, engineering, and science and technology, which is the clearest possible statement of the interdisciplinary design the merger was meant to produce.六个学院分别是艺术、设计与建筑学院，商学院，化工学院，电气工程学院、工程学院，以及科学技术学院，这正是合并所要产生的跨学科设计的最清晰表述。

• Engineering degrees lead to the Finnish diplomi-insinoori, a five-year master's degree close to the German Diplom-Ingenieur, and since the Bologna reform in 2005 students must first complete a bachelor's degree, so the school does not admit students straight to the master's level.工程类学位以芬兰语 diplomi-insinoori 结业，为五年制硕士，接近德国的 Diplom-Ingenieur；自 2005 年博洛尼亚改革以来学生须先取得学士学位，故学院不直接招收硕士阶段学生。

• Business degrees follow a three-year bachelor and a two-year master, with a further four years for the doctorate, and thirteen master's programmes are offered, twelve of them in English.商学院实行三年本科加两年硕士的路径，博士再需四年，共提供十三个硕士项目，其中十二个以英语授课。

• Admissions are decided mainly on the national DIA entrance examination, and in 2010 the average entrant scored 7.2 while the minimum combined mathematics and physics score for admission was 17.1 to 20.1, a gap that explains the school's selectivity.录取主要以全国 DIA 入学考试成绩为依据，2010 年考生平均得分为 7.2 分，而录取所需的数学与物理最低合并分数为 17.1 至 20.1 分，这一落差正是学校生源筛选严苛的原因。

• The university defines four fundamental competence areas, information and communication technology and digitalisation, materials and the sustainable use of natural resources, global business dynamics, and art and design knowledge building, and adds three multidisciplinary themes on energy, health and living environments.学校界定了四个基础能力领域：信息通信技术与数字化、材料与自然资源可持续利用、全球经济动态，以及艺术与设计知识建构，并另设能源、健康与人居环境三项跨学科主题。

• It took part in nine Centres of Excellence selected by the Academy of Finland between 2008 and 2019, and from 2018 to 2025 in three, covering quantum technology, inverse modelling and imaging with the University of Helsinki, and research on sustainable space with the Finnish Meteorological Institute.2008 至 2019 年间，学校参与了芬兰科学院评选的九个卓越中心，2018 至 2025 年参与三个，分别涉及量子技术、与赫尔辛基大学共建的反演建模与成像，以及与芬兰气象研究所共建的可持续空间研究。

• Other shared platforms include the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology with the University of Helsinki, the Helsinki Institute of Physics with four Finnish universities, and MilliLab, a joint laboratory with the VTT Technical Research Centre that built one of the radio receivers of the Planck probe.其他共建平台包括与赫尔辛基大学合办的赫尔辛基信息技术研究所、与芬兰四所大学合办的赫尔辛基物理研究所，以及与 VTT 技术研究中心的合资实验室 MilliLab，后者制造了普朗克探测器的一台无线电接收机。

• In nanotechnology the university operates the largest cleanroom facility in Northern Europe and one of the largest microscopy clusters in Europe, which underpins its position in photonics, quantum technology and battery materials.在纳米技术方向，学校拥有北欧最大的洁净室设施与欧洲最大的显微设备集群之一，这支撑了其在光子学、量子技术与电池材料方面的地位。

• Design and architecture is the field with the clearest external recognition, ranked sixth in the world for art and design in the 2021 and 2023 QS subject tables, while electrical engineering and science carry the engineering reputation through research on wireless systems, low temperature physics and magnetoencephalography.设计建筑是外部认可最清晰的领域，在 2021 与 2023 年 QS 学科表中艺术与设计列全球第 6，电气工程与科学则以无线系统、低温物理与脑磁图研究支撑学校的工程声誉。

• Its MBA and executive MBA programmes are run by Aalto University Executive Education as non-degree programmes offered in several countries, and the business school was ranked twenty-ninth in Europe by the Financial Times in 2013.学校的 MBA 与高管 MBA 项目由阿尔托大学高管教育以非学位项目形式在多个国家开设，商学院曾被《金融时报》在 2013 年列为欧洲第 29 位。

• Both MBA programmes are taught through two-week modules by visiting faculty from some of the top business schools in the world, including Emory University, Rutgers Business School in Newark and New Brunswick, the University of South Carolina, Georgetown University, UCLA, Concordia University, Indiana University and the Rotterdam School of Management, and Aalto University Executive Education also offers a double-degree executive MBA in partnership with ESADE Business School, while the Financial Times placed the business school seventy-eighth among global MBA programmes and eighty-fifth among executive MBA programmes.MBA 与高管 MBA 两个项目均以两周为一个教学模块，由来自世界顶尖商学院的访问教师讲授，包括埃莫里大学、罗格斯商学院纽瓦克与新布伦瑞克分校、南卡罗来纳大学、乔治敦大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校、康考迪亚大学、印第安纳大学与鹿特丹管理学院；阿尔托大学高管教育还与 ESADE 商学院合办双学位高管 MBA 项目，《金融时报》则把该商学院列为全球 MBA 项目第 78 位、高管 MBA 项目第 85 位。

• OpenAlex records 65,735 works and 3,767,709 citations for the institution, a citation load that reflects a research university with fewer than a third of the students of the University of Helsinki but a strong industrial funding base.OpenAlex 为该校记录论文 65,735 篇、被引 3,767,709 次，这一被引量体现的是一所学生规模不足赫尔辛基大学三分之一、却有深厚产业资助基础的科研型大学。

Campus

• The main campus is in Otaniemi in Espoo, about ten kilometres from the centre of Helsinki, and since 2019 all six schools have been based there, in a district whose master plan and earliest buildings were drawn by Alvar Aalto.主校区位于埃斯波市的奥塔涅米，距赫尔辛基市中心约十公里，自 2019 年起六个学院全部迁驻此地，该片区的总体规划与早期建筑由阿尔瓦·阿尔托绘制。

• The Aalto University metro station connects Otaniemi with central Helsinki on the western metro line, and the campus adjoins the Keilaniemi district, which holds the life science centre and the headquarters of firms such as Kone and Fortum.阿尔托大学地铁站以西线地铁把奥塔涅米与赫尔辛基市中心相连，校园紧邻凯拉尼米区，该区设有生命科学中心以及 Kone 与 Fortum 等企业的总部。

• Surrounding the campus are the forest industry's joint laboratory KCL and the business incubators Innopoli and Technopolis, so that a technology spin-out can move into a neighbouring building rather than leaving the district.校园周边是林业共同的实验机构 KCL 与创业孵化园 Innopoli、Technopolis，技术型衍生企业可以搬进隔壁楼栋，而不必离开这一片区。

• The Otaniemi campus was begun in 1950 so that the first buildings could house athletes of the 1952 Summer Olympics, and some of the construction material came from the former Soviet embassy, which had been destroyed during the Second World War.奥塔涅米校区的建设始于 1950 年，以便首批建筑为 1952 年赫尔辛基奥运会的运动员提供住宿，部分建材取自二战期间被毁的苏联使馆旧址。

• The Teekkarikyla student village, home to more than two thousand students, provides most of the housing on the Otaniemi campus and is owned partly by the student union and partly by the Helsinki Student Housing Fund, so international students dominate its daily life.奥塔涅米的学生村（芬兰语 Teekkarikylä）住有逾两千名学生，提供了校区内大部分住房，由学生互助会与赫尔辛基学生住房基金共同持有，国际学生因此成为其日常生活的主体。

• Aalto University still owns the former business school campus in Toolo in central Helsinki, which since 2019 has been under renovation and is used mainly by Aalto University Executive Education.学校仍持有赫尔辛基市中心图厄洛的原商学院校区，自 2019 年起处于翻修状态，主要由阿尔托大学高管教育使用。

• Beyond the Helsinki metropolitan area the university runs a bachelor programme in international business in Mikkeli and owns and operates the Metsahovi radio observatory in Kirkkonummi, its base for radio astronomy.在赫尔辛基都会区之外，学校在米凯利运营国际商务本科项目，并在 Kirkkonummi 拥有并运营梅萨霍维射电天文台，作为射电天文学的基地。

• The campus also keeps Dipoli, a former student union building designed by Reima Pietila and Raili Pietila and completed in 1966, which was rented to the university in 1993 for conferences and continuing education and later sold because of maintenance costs.校区还保留着 Dipoli，这是一幢由雷马·皮耶蒂莱与拉伊莉·皮耶蒂莱设计、1966 年建成的原学生会大楼，1993 年长期租予学校用作会议与继续教育场所，后因维护成本而被出售。

Reputation

• The 2027 QS World University Rankings place Aalto University 126th in the world with a score of 63.5, which reflects a young university still moving up the overall tables rather than one at a plateau.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将阿尔托大学列为全球第 126 位，综合得分 63.5，反映出这所年轻大学在综合榜上仍在爬升而非进入平台期。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place it 183rd jointly, and in the 2017 edition it was fifty-fifth among technology challenger universities, the category that best fits a merger university with no medieval foundation.《泰晤士高等教育》2027 年世界大学排名将其并列第 183 位，2017 年版中该校在「科技新锐大学」类别列第 55 位，这一类别最契合一所没有中世纪根基的合并型大学。

• The Best Global Universities ranking of US News for 2026 and 2027 places the university 403rd, an unusually wide gap from its QS position that reflects the American table's heavier weighting of medical and life-science output.《美国新闻与世界报道》2026 至 2027 年最佳全球大学排名将该校列于第 403 位，与其 QS 名次之间出现了异常大的落差，原因在于这份美国榜单更重医学与生命科学产出。

• Art and design is the standout, with sixth place in the world in the QS subject ranking in both 2021 and 2023, and architecture and the built environment at forty-eighth, so the two design subjects carry the university's international standing.艺术与设计是最突出的学科，在 2021 与 2023 年 QS 学科排名中均列全球第 6，建筑与建成环境列第 48，这两个设计类学科支撑着学校的国际地位。

• OpenAlex records 65,735 works and 3,767,709 citations for the institution, roughly fifty-seven citations per work, a healthy ratio for a university that shares facilities with a national technical research centre.OpenAlex 为该校记录论文 65,735 篇、被引 3,767,709 次，每篇约获引 57 次，对一所以与国家技术研究中心共享设施为特点的大学而言是健康的比率。

• Aalto's predecessor faculties have produced exactly one Nobel laureate, Artturi Virtanen, who held a professorship of biochemistry at the Helsinki University of Technology and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1945, and the university has no Turing or Fields medalist.阿尔托大学的前身院系共产生过一位诺贝尔奖得主，即在芬兰技术理工任生物化学教授、并于 1945 年获诺贝尔化学奖的阿图里·维尔塔宁；该校没有图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主。

• Its funding base is unusual among Finnish universities, with an endowment of 1,475 million euros in 2024 built from the founding campaign of two hundred million euros in private donations, topped up two and a half times by the state.该校的经费结构在芬兰大学中相当特殊，2024 年捐赠基金达 14.75 亿欧元，其起点是创校时 2 亿欧元的私人捐款，并由国家以两倍半额度配套。

• Aalto belongs to the CLUSTER consortium of European universities of science and technology, to CESAER, and to the business-school networks AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS and CEMS, which is how a fifteen-year-old institution has acquired the standing of an older one.阿尔托大学是欧洲科技大学联盟 CLUSTER 与 CESAER 的成员，同时加入 AACSB、AMBA、EQUIS 与 CEMS 等商学院联盟网络，一家仅成立十余年的机构由此获得了与老校相当的认可度。

• The university is run as the Aalto University Foundation, so the state does not fund it directly in the way it funds the other Finnish universities, which makes the endowment and the company partnerships a structural condition rather than an ornament.学校以「阿尔托大学基金会」形式运作，因此国家并不像资助其他芬兰大学那样直接出资，这使捐赠基金与产业合作成为结构性前提而非装饰。

Student life

• Aalto University has no formal motto, because the 2010 merger created a new legal entity rather than inheriting the heraldry of the three predecessors, and the institutions' own devices were left behind with their old names.阿尔托大学没有正式校训，因为 2010 年的合并创设了一个全新的法人实体，并未继承三所前校的纹章与格言，各校的校徽随旧名一同留在原处。

• The student union, formed at the beginning of 2010 out of the three former unions, represents all bachelor and master students, runs health care, recreation and housing services for a community of about fifteen thousand, and is financed by fees, investments and the profits of student housing.学生会于 2010 年初由三所原学生会合并而成，代表全体本科与硕士学生，为约一万五千人的社群提供医疗、健身与住宿服务，其经费来自会费、投资与学生公寓的收益。

• Student overalls are colour coded by field, with automation and robotics students in purple, electrical engineering students in white and chemical engineering students in blue, so that a whole faculty can be recognised across a campus at a glance.学生工装的颜色按专业区分，自动化与机器人专业穿紫色、电气工程穿白色、化工穿蓝色，一整个学院在校园里一眼即可辨认。

• Technology students are also known for the pointed felt hat called teekkarilakki and for engineering pranks, the most famous of which in 1961 saw a team smuggle a statue of the runner Paavo Nurmi onto the three-hundred-year-old wreck of the warship Vasa days before it was lifted from the seabed.理工科学生还以带尖毡帽（芬兰语 teekkarilakki）与整蛊恶作剧闻名，其中最著名的一次发生在 1961 年：一群学生把长跑名将帕沃·努尔米的雕像偷运到已有三百年历史的战舰「瓦萨号」沉船上，就在打捞出水前几天。

• Aalto on Tracks, held in the university's first year, sent a hundred students on a chartered train for ten thousand kilometres from Helsinki to the Shanghai Expo with talks and workshops on the way, and its successor Aalto on Waves planned a voyage by boat towards South America.创校第一年的「阿尔托在铁轨上」活动租下一列专列，组织一百名学生从赫尔辛基行驶一万公里前往上海世博会，车上进行跨学科讲座与工作坊，其后续活动「阿尔托在浪尖上」则计划乘船前往南美。

• Graduating students met the public in the annual festival that ran as Think 2000, then as the Masters of Arts festival from 2002 to 2011, as Masters of Aalto from 2012 to 2014 and finally as Aalto Festival from 2015 to 2019, showing theses, commercial collaborations and artworks in one exhibition.毕业生每年通过一次年度节庆与公众见面：它先后以「思考 2000」、2002 至 2011 年的艺术硕士节、2012 至 2014 年的「阿尔托硕士」以及 2015 至 2019 年的「阿尔托节」名义举办，在同一展览中呈现毕业论文、企业合作与艺术创作。

• More than one hundred and fifty student associations operate on the campus, among them Aaltoes, the Polytech Choir, the flying club and the Otaniemi underground broadcasting system, so that the university has a functioning extracurricular life within fifteen years of founding.校园内有一百五十多个学生社团，其中包括阿尔托创业社、理工学院合唱团、飞行俱乐部与奥塔涅米地下广播系统，这所大学在建校十五年内便有了运转良好的课外生活。

• The only surviving student nation is Teknologforeening, a Swedish-speaking society housed in its own building Urdsgjallar, and the Aalto University Student Union itself operates from the Otaniemi campus while supporting students in Toolo, Mikkeli and Kirkkonummi.仅存的学生 Nation 为瑞典语社团 Teknologföreningen，拥有自己的专属建筑 Urdsgjallar，阿尔托大学学生会本身在奥塔涅米校区办公，并为图厄洛、米凯利与 Kirkkonummi 的学生提供支持。

Notable people

• Alvar Aalto, who took his master of architecture degree at the Helsinki University of Technology, designed the Otaniemi campus of his own school and is the figure after whom the merged university is named, because his work joined architecture, industry and economy.阿尔瓦·阿尔托在芬兰技术理工取得建筑学硕士学位，主持设计了母校的奥塔涅米校区，合并后成立的新大学即以其命名，因为他的工作把建筑、产业与经济连为一体。

• Leo Mechelin served among the first presidents of the University of Art and Design Helsinki, which he had helped found, and he went on to chair the Senate of Finland, so the arts half of the merger began with a statesman.莱奥·梅切林曾任芬兰艺术设计大学的首任校长之一，并参与创办该校，其后出任芬兰参议会议长，合并中的艺术一脉由此以一位政治家开启。

• Anne Brunila of the Ministry of Finance led the 2004 working group that first proposed consolidating Finnish tertiary education, and the merger she set in motion took six years to reach its opening day.财政部的安妮·布鲁尼拉主持了 2004 年首次提出整合芬兰高等教育的工作组，由她启动的合并历经六年才走到开办之日。

• Yearjo Sotamaa, president of the University of Art and Design Helsinki from 2004 to 2008, argued in his 2005 opening address that only a merged university could generate the interdisciplinary thinking Finland needed.耶尔约·索塔马于 2004 至 2008 年任芬兰艺术设计大学校长，他在 2005 年新年致辞中论证，唯有合并后的大学才能产出芬兰所需的跨学科思考。

• Raimo Sailas, the Ministry of Finance official appointed by the Ministry of Education, assessed the merger for the government in 2007 and found it beneficial to Finnish academia and the national economy.雷莫·赛拉斯是教育部任命的财政部官员，他于 2007 年为政府评估合并方案，结论是对芬兰学术界与国民经济均有益处。

• Sari Sarkomaa, education minister at the time, signed the Aalto University charter in Helsinki on 25 June 2008 with industry and professional bodies, and her signature turned a parliamentary decision into a legal foundation.时任教育部长萨里·萨尔科马于 2008 年 6 月 25 日在赫尔辛基与产业界及专业团体共同签署阿尔托大学章程，她的签字把议会决议落实为法人设立。

• Tuula Teeri was selected as the first president of Aalto University on 19 December 2008 and led it through the opening year of 2010 and the first financial years of the new foundation.图拉·特里于 2008 年 12 月 19 日被选为阿尔托大学首任校长，主持了 2010 年的开办之年与新基金会最初的数年财务运作。

• Ilkka Niemela, a biochemist who had served as provost, was elected president in 2017 and has led the university since, including the move that consolidated all six schools onto the Otaniemi campus from 2019.生物化学家伊尔卡·涅梅拉曾任校务委员会主席，2017 年当选校长并执掌至今，包括自 2019 年起把六个学院集中到奥塔涅米校区的迁移动作。

• Gustaf Komppa, the first professor of chemistry at the Helsinki University of Technology, achieved the first commercially used total synthesis in history in camphor, and his chair still carries his name.古斯塔夫·孔帕是芬兰技术理工首任化学教授，他以樟脑实现了史上首个投入商业使用的全合成，其设立的讲席至今仍以他命名。

• Artturi Virtanen, who held a professorship of biochemistry at the Helsinki University of Technology, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1945 for his work on nitrogen fixation and plant nutrients, and is the only Nobel laureate in the university's ancestry.阿图里·维尔塔宁曾在芬兰技术理工任生物化学教授，因在固氮与植物营养方面的研究于 1945 年获诺贝尔化学奖，是该校谱系中唯一的诺贝尔奖得主。

• Teuvo Kohonen, a professor of engineering at the same school, initiated research on self-organising maps, an unsupervised learning method that became standard in pattern recognition and neural networks.同校的工程学教授特沃·科霍宁开创了自组织映射研究，这是一种无监督学习方法，如今已成为模式识别与神经网络的标准工具。

• Jorma Ollila, who holds degrees from the technology, political science and economics sides of the merged institutions, was chief executive of Nokia and later chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, the clearest example of the industrial leadership the merger was designed to produce.约尔马·奥利拉拥有合并各校技术、政治学与经济学三个方向的学位，曾任诺基亚首席执行官，后任皇家荷兰壳牌董事长，是合并意在造就的产业领袖的最好例证。