EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Molecular Modelling and Materials Science

EPSRC 分子建模和材料科学博士培训中心

• 批准号: EP/L015862/1
• 金额: $ 492.51万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Training Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2014 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FL015862%2F1
• 关键词: EPSRC; Centre; Doctoral; Training; Molecular

The Centre for Doctoral Training in "Molecular Modelling and Materials Science" (M3S CDT) at University College London (UCL) will deliver to its students a comprehensive and integrated training programme in computational and experimentalmaterials science to produce skilled researchers with experience and appreciation of industrially important applications. As structural and physico-chemical processes at the molecular level largely determine the macroscopic properties of any material, quantitative research into this nano-scale behaviour is crucially important to the design and engineering of complex functional materials.The M3S CDT offers a highly multi-disciplinary 4-year doctoral programme, which works in partnership with a large base of industrial and external sponsors on a variety of projects. The four main research themes within the Centre are 1) Energy Materials; 2) Catalysis; 3) Healthcare Materials; and 4) 'Smart' Nano-Materials, which will be underpinned by an extensive training and research programme in (i) Software Development together with the Hartree Centre, Daresbury, and (ii) Materials Characterisation techniques, employing Central Facilities in partnership with ISIS and Diamond.Students at the M3S CDT follow a tailor-made taught programme of specialist technical courses, professionally accredited project management courses and generic skills training, which ensures that whatever their first degree, on completion all students will have obtained thorough technical schooling, training in innovation and entrepreneurship and managerial and transferable skills, as well as a challenging doctoral research degree. Spending >50% of their time on site with external sponsors, the students gain first-hand experience of the demanding research environment of a competitive industry or (inter)national lab.The global and national importance of an integrated computational and experimental approach to the Materials Sciences, as promoted by our Centre, has been highlighted in a number of policy documents, including the US Materials Genome Initiative and European Science Foundation's Materials Science and Engineering Expert Committee position paper on Computational Techniques, Methods and Materials Design. Materials Science research in the UK plays a key role within all of the 8 Future Technologies, identified by Science Minister David Willetts to help the UK acquire long-term sustainable economic growth.Materials research in UCL is particularly well developed, with a thriving Centre for Materials Research, a Materials Chemistry Centre and a new Centre for Materials Discovery (2013) with a remit to build close research links with theCatalysis Technology Hub at the Harwell Research Complex and the prestigious Francis Crick Institute for biomedical research (opening in 2015). The M3S will work closely with these centres and its academic and industrial supervisors arealready heavily involved with and/or located at the Harwell Research Complex, whereas a number of recent joint appointments with the Francis Crick Institute will boost the M3S's already strong link with biomedicine. Moreover, UCLhas perhaps the largest concentration of computational materials scientists in the UK, if not the world, who interact through the London-wide Thomas Young Centre for the Theory and Simulation of Materials. As such, UCL has a large team of well over 100 research-active academic staff available to supervise research projects, ensuring that all external partners can team up with an academic in a relevant research field to form a supervisory team to work with the Centre students.The success of the existing M3S CDT and the obvious potential to widen its research remit and industrial partnerships into topical new materials science areas, which lie at the heart of EPSRC's strategic funding priorities and address nationalskills gaps, has led to this proposal for the funding of 5 annual student cohorts in the new phase of the Centre.

伦敦大学学院 (UCL) 的“分子建模和材料科学”(M3S CDT) 博士培训中心将为学生提供计算和实验材料科学方面的全面综合培训计划，以培养具有工业重要应用经验和鉴赏力的熟练研究人员。由于分子水平的结构和物理化学过程在很大程度上决定了任何材料的宏观特性，因此对这种纳米级行为的定量研究对于复杂功能材料的设计和工程至关重要。M3S CDT 提供高度跨学科的 4 年制博士课程，该课程与大量工业和外部赞助商合作开展各种项目。该中心的四个主要研究主题是1）能源材料； 2）催化； 3）医疗保健材料； 4) “智能”纳米材料，该项目将以广泛的培训和研究计划为基础，(i) 与达斯伯里 Hartree 中心一起进行软件开发，以及 (ii) 材料表征技术，与 ISIS 和 Diamond 合作使用中央设施。M3S CDT 的学生遵循量身定制的专业技术课程、经过专业认证的项目管理课程和通用技能培训的教学计划， 这确保了无论他们的第一个学位是什么，所有学生在完成学业后都将获得全面的技术教育、创新和创业、管理和可转移技能的培训，以及具有挑战性的博士学位研究学位。学生们将超过 50% 的时间花在外部赞助商的现场，获得竞争性行业或（国际）国家实验室的苛刻研究环境的第一手经验。正如我们中心所提倡的，材料科学综合计算和实验方法在全球和国家的重要性已在许多政策文件中得到强调，包括美国材料基因组计划和欧洲科学基金会材料科学与工程专家委员会关于计算技术、方法和材料的立场文件 设计。英国的材料科学研究在科学部长 David Willetts 确定的所有 8 项未来技术中发挥着关键作用，以帮助英国实现长期可持续的经济增长。伦敦大学学院的材料研究尤其发达，拥有蓬勃发展的材料研究中心、材料化学中心和新的材料发现中心（2013 年），其职责是与哈韦尔研究中心的催化技术中心和著名的弗朗西斯·克里克建立密切的研究联系 生物医学研究所（2015 年开业）。 M3S 将与这些中心及其学术和工业主管密切合作，这些主管已经深入参与和/或位于哈韦尔研究中心，而最近与弗朗西斯·克里克研究所的一些联合任命将加强 M3S 与生物医学业已紧密的联系。此外，伦敦大学学院也许是英国乃至全世界计算材料科学家最集中的地方，他们通过伦敦托马斯·杨材料理论与模拟中心进行互动。因此，伦敦大学学院拥有一支由 100 多名研究活跃的学术人员组成的大型团队，可监督研究项目，确保所有外部合作伙伴都能与相关研究领域的学者合作，组成一个监督团队，与中心的学生一起工作。现有 M3S CDT 的成功以及将其研究范围和工业合作伙伴关系扩大到新材料科学领域的明显潜力，这是 EPSRC 战略资助优先事项的核心，并解决了这些问题 国家技能差距，导致提出了为该中心新阶段的 5 个年度学生群体提供资金的提案。