Chapter 273: The Pyramid of Scientific Research
"Professor Tang. ”
"Professor Tang is here. The students greeted each other.
Professor Tang concentrates on his silver hair, combed into a very distinctive parted hair, slightly chubby, and has an outstanding temperament, looking like an expired old singer. He carried a thick stack of things around his waist, a paper jiàn folder full of scratch paper and test papers, and a whole book, because there were so many of them that he had to hold them with one hand and hold them with the other.
He left things in a mess on his desk, making the already cramped office area even more pitiful.
Tang Zhong didn't seem to care about this, he silently walked to the corner of the room, lifted the boiling water bottle, poured some water in the basin, wiped his face and neck with a towel, breathed a comfortable breath, opened the window again, and sat down at the desk, only revealing a stubby neck and head, and the whole person seemed to be propped up by books.
After doing this, Tang concentrated on a Santa Claus-like smile and said, "We all know each other, let's chat casually first, don't be nervous." ”
Yang Rui was not nervous at all, he had made up his mind not to join the scientific research group of Tang Central. Although the materials on the desktop have Chinese and foreign languages, and the number is extremely large, indicating that Professor Tang himself has a level, but not finding money is an absolute weakness, and the scientific research group without money cannot do it, and may be able to do some simple research work, just like the scientific research group that Yang Rui joined in his previous life, but that is not what Yang Rui wants.
Yang Rui hopes to join a large scientific research group, preferably a large scientific research group with three or five branch groups, each of which has a first-class project.
Only in this way can Yang Rui start from a branch group and get the project by himself.
This is very critical, because Yang Rui is a student, and it is difficult for a student to lead a project, and if he can't lead the project, he can't sign the position of the corresponding author, in other words, he can't be a big boss, which makes it difficult for him to get the corresponding reputation.
After all, foreign researchers and institutions, no matter what the structure of your domestic scientific research is, they will look at who is the first author and who is the corresponding author.
If there are only a few people doing research work, the most valued position is the first author, and only the first author.
However, if the project is completed by multiple people, the most important position is the corresponding author, because it is the overall responsibility and the key to the progress and completion of the project. The first author is the main executor, and it is the best path for young and middle-aged researchers to climb the peak.
In China, a powerful professor can lead a huge team that can be as large as the scale of the institute.
For example, academician so-and-so, he can often win hundreds of millions or even billions of yuan in funding, which is more than an ordinary research institute. In order to get this funding, the scale of the research team under this academician is also comparable to that of the research institute.
Generally speaking, a high-end academician will at least be in charge of a national-level real room, in which there can be two or three Changjiang Scholar-level professors to form two or three research teams in different directions, and each research team will have several young and middle-aged professors and associate professors with good level to work, and each young and middle-aged professor and associate professor will be freely combined into a research group with different directions, and under each research group, there will be a different number of postdoctoral fellows, doctoral students and graduate students.
To translate in more familiar words, academicians are equivalent to real estate companies, subordinate Changjiang Scholar-level professors are equivalent to construction companies, Changjiang Scholar-level professors will hire ordinary professors and associate professors to be contract foremen, lay foundations, do water, electricity, safety doors and windows, etc., and perform their own duties, while below the contract foreman, postdoctoral and doctoral students are equivalent to large workers and are the main labor force, and graduate and undergraduate students are small workers and dry work.
In this pyramid structure, graduate and undergraduate students who do small jobs should work hard to learn technology and strive to do big work, and doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows who have achieved big work, as well as small teaching assistants and small lecturers who have graduated and found jobs, must find ways to accumulate capital, upgrade or jump out to form their own scientific research groups, so as to become contractors.
For example, Zhong Zhiwen's boss, Professor Fu, is actually an associate professor of the contractor, he can get hundreds of thousands of funds at most, just do some projects of hundreds of thousands, and continue to accumulate capital by himself, just like the individual construction team at the township level, he will feel more free and beneficial in the early stage, but it is difficult to get in touch with large projects, and it is even more difficult to become bigger and stronger.
Professor Tang is a stronger contractor, he can not only ask for millions of funds, but also has the qualifications of a professor, so he can take on some better projects, and even subcontract some small projects in large projects. If there is a good opportunity, Professor Tang may also pass a project and start it, and there will be no more bottlenecks in qualifications, of course, such opportunities are always rare, and the risks are not small.
There are very few professors at the Changjiang scholar level, and there are less than 1,000 professors in the country. Among them, the more powerful ones are already comparable to academicians, or alternate academicians waiting to be academicians. Most of them have the opportunity or are running their own real rooms, and it is not difficult to apply for a national real room. Generally speaking, Changjiang Scholars and professors are often receiving state-level funds, such as the 863 Program, etc., which are in the pockets of these great scholars.
The scientific research team composed of academicians is naturally the strongest, however, academicians also have strong and weak points, just like real estate development companies have strong and weak points, low-end Da Ben skips the construction company and directly looks for the contractor to save money, and the high-end Da Ben wins several projects at the same time, and then distributes them to Da Ji level construction companies to make money.
The Human Genome Project is one of the three major programs along with the New Manhattan Project and the Apollo Moon Landing Program. Although the project was originally organized by the United States, in the years that followed, five countries, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and China, and later the European Community, made the whole project a once-in-a-century event, and its original leader was the Nobel laureate Watson, who discovered the DNA double helix. As for the Italian-American Nobel laureate who proposed the Human Genome Project, Duerbeck had to go to Italy to organize the country's Human Genome Team because he was not enough.
Historically, China has received a total of 1% of the workload of the Human Genome Project, which was completed by four Daben and their respective Daben teams.
China did not join until 94 years late, but it left Yang Rui with a glimmer of hope.
However, to join such a grand event, you can't waste four years of university time.
Students are not directly involved in school or intergovernmental projects, but it is possible to join a team and then subcontract the project by working on their own skills.
For ordinary students, it may only be possible, but for Yang Rui, who is full of papers, even a little possibility can easily expand infinitely.
If it weren't for the lack of corresponding practical conditions and qualifications, he would have thrown a paper in Science out now, and immediately turned into a calf, naturally unwilling to waste energy in a small project team.
Yang Rui treated it negatively, but the other students in the office were actively hoping to join Tang's research group.
They don't have Yang Rui's resources, and being able to enter the project team of Professor Da Niu Tang is already an excellent choice, compared to Zhong Zhiwen, a senior student, the good is not a little bit better.
After more than ten seconds of silence, a graduate student looked left and right and took the lead in saying: "I think two-dimensional electrophoresis is a promising technology, especially now that protein research has become more in-depth......"
After this finished speaking, another senior said, "...... I think the cooling of glass tubes needs to be paid more attention, because proteins and glues are easy to deteriorate, once the cooling is not good, it is easy to make the real yàn number jù unreal, I read a few articles by Professor Tang, I think the real yàn design is very good......"
One by one, the students spoke.
Complimenting the professor's work is the main part of the interview, and any professor is willing to recruit like-minded students, even if they are just research workers.
At the same time, reading the professor's paper is also the basic work of scientific research migrant workers, and you don't know what the professor's project is, so let alone join the project team.
The students who did their homework did their best to show themselves, express their scientific hearts, and prove their strength.
The main research content of Tang Zhong is protein, and two-dimensional electrophoresis, as a newly invented technology 8 years ago, is a method often used in Tang Zhong recently, and everyone has tried to play around this point as much as possible.
Tang Ji listened carefully one by one, and finally put his eyes on Yang Rui's face and asked, "You are Yang Rui, let's talk about it too." Don't be nervous, what to say, you're still a freshman and won't be too demanding of you. ”
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