Capital Award in Support of Early Career Researchers

该资本投资项目旨在为赫瑞瓦特大学的早期职业研究人员（ECR）提供最先进的设备，使他们能够进行尖端研究。赫瑞瓦特大学在过去5年中招募了许多年轻学者（仅工程和物理科学学院就有36名），他们目前正在建立自己的研究小组，并吸引了EPSRC和其他资助机构的大量资金。相对较多的ECR活跃在医疗保健技术领域，这是一个在赫瑞瓦特大学和全球范围内不断增长的研究领域。我们将把投资集中在这一领域，以建立一个世界级的实验室生态系统，激发创意，开发新技术，创造卓越并促进合作。建议投资的设备都有利于多个用户，特别是ECR，包括3D生物打印机，眼动仪眼镜，用于提高计算能力的CPU集群，用于制造医疗设备的六足机器人，用于切割冷冻组织切片的低温恒温器和OCT医疗成像设备。我们将有一个透明的预订和设备管理系统，使其使用和影响最大化。

This capital investment project seeks to support Heriot-Watt University's Early Career Researchers (ECRs) with state-of-the art equipment, enabling them to do cutting-edge research. Heriot-Watt University has recruited many young academics over the past 5 years (36 in the academic School of Engineering and Physical Sciences alone), who are currently building their research groups and attracting significant funding from EPSRC and other funding bodies. A relatively high number of ECRs are active in Healthcare Technologies, a research area that is growing both within Heriot-Watt University and worldwide. We will be focussing our investment into this area to build a World Class Labs ecosystem to inspire ideas, develop novel technologies, generate excellence and foster collaboration. The equipment proposed for the investment all benefits multiple users, ECRs in particular, and include a 3D bioprinter, eye tracker glasses, a CPU cluster for improved computational power, a hexapod for manufacturing medical devices, a cryostat for cutting frozen tissue slices, and an OCT medical imaging device. We will have a transparent booking and equipment management system so that its usage and impact are maximised.