Warwick Centre for Analytical Science

分析科学涉及新方法的开发和应用，以测量所有类型的人造和天然物质的组成和结构。在英国，分析行业支撑着许多重要行业（如食品、化工、制药、环境、材料），对流程和成本控制、产品质量和竞争力、工业遵守环境和安全法规以及提供医疗保健和司法至关重要。至关重要的是，分析科学的进步对于包括材料和生命科学在内的许多关键研究领域的进步也是必不可少的。现代分析问题通常需要三维的高空间分辨率，从而产生非常大而复杂的数据集。此外，还需要将来自不同来源的多个数据集的信息结合起来。最近的官方评论警告说，尽管分析科学对英国的经济和科学竞争力具有核心重要性，但英国的分析科学受到不尊重和分散的影响，缺乏跨学科性。其结果是缺乏分析科学家，与其他国家相比，创新水平低得惊人。以研究和创新为主导的这一领域的复兴对英国的经济和社会福祉至关重要。华威大学在多学科研究和教育方面投入了大量资金，在化学、物理、统计、工程、生物科学和医学院的分析科学方面拥有强大的研究基础。基于这一理念，我们响应了第四次科学与创新呼吁，提出了三个新的跨学科研究领域（化学计量学和实验设计，材料的化学和结构表征，质谱）的讲师，这将与华威分析科学的各种研究相结合，建立一个新的分析科学中心，预计将提升分析科学在英国和世界范围内的形象。认识到科学进步至关重要地依赖于不同学科和部门之间的交流与合作这一事实，该中心的中心目标将是将学术界和工业界的人们聚集在一起，为识别、定义和实施新的分析科学研究目标提供一个平台，包括开发新的仪器、数据采集和统计推断的新方法。创新的过程需要学术界和私营部门之间的对话。正如兰伯特报告中所述，知识转移的最佳形式包括人际互动。因此，该中心将设立一个学术/工业咨询委员会，并将通过其新的分析论坛，制定一个访问和外展计划，不仅使公共和私营部门分析工具的开发人员和用户之间能够交流思想、知识和技术，而且还促进新的合作。在资源丰富的跨国、多学科环境中，提供由博士生和博士后研究人员支持的优秀研究设施，将吸引最高质量的申请者。该中心将制订分析科学、统计和可转移技能方面的培训方案。该中心的研究和教育的整合将为分析科学提供一个全面的方法，帮助英国提供必要的技能基础，以保持国际竞争力。华威将通过保证对该地区的长期支持，并通过大量投资于最先进的设备，专用住宿和基础设施来培育新中心。将为CPD、PG和UG培训开发模块，这将有助于可持续发展。

Analytical Science involves the development and application of new methods to measure the composition and structure of manufactured and natural substances of all types. The analytical sector in the UK underpins many vital industries (e.g. food, chemical, pharmaceutical, environmental, materials), is crucial to process and cost control, to product quality and competitiveness, to industrial compliance with environmental and safety legislation, and to the delivery of healthcare and justice. Crucially, progress in Analytical Science is also essential to advances in many key research areas including materials and life sciences. Modern analytical problems often require high spatial resolution in three dimensions, resulting in very large, complex data sets. Moreover, there is a need to combine information from multiple data sets of very different provenance. Recent official reviews have warned that, despite its central importance to the UK's economic and scientific competitiveness, Analytical Science in the UK suffers from low esteem and fragmentation, and lacks interdisciplinarity. The result is a shortage of analytical scientists, and an alarmingly low level of innovation compared to other countries. Research and innovation-led reinvigoration of this area is essential for the UK's economic and social well-being. The University of Warwick invests heavily in multidisciplinary research and education, and has a strong research base in Analytical Science in the Departments of Chemistry, Physics, Statistics, Engineering, Biological Sciences and the Medical School. Building on this philosophy, we have responded to the fourth Science and Innovation Call by proposing lectureships in three new interdisciplinary research areas (Chemometrics and Experimental Design, Chemical and Structural Characterisation of Materials, and Mass Spectrometry) that will be combined with diverse research in Analytical Science at Warwick to found a new Centre for Analytical Science, expected to boost the profile of Analytical Science in the UK and world-wide. Recognising the fact that scientific progress crucially depends on communication and collaboration between different disciplines and sectors, a central aim of the Centre will be to bring together people from academia and industry with the objective of providing a platform for identification, definition, and implementation of new Analytical Science research goals including the development of new instrumentation, and new methods for data acquisition and statistical inference. The process of innovation requires a dialogue between academia and the private sector. As stated in the Lambert report, the best forms of knowledge transfer involve human interaction . Therefore, the Centre will have an academic/industrial Advisory Board, and will develop, through its new Analytical Forum, a visitor and outreach programme, not only to enable the exchange of ideas, knowledge, and technology between developers and users of analytical tools in public and private sectors, but also to foster new collaborations.Applicants of the very highest quality will be attracted by offering excellent research facilities supported by PhD students and post-doctoral researchers in a well resourced multinational, multidisciplinary environment. The Centre will develop training programmes in Analytical Science, statistics and transferable skills. The integration of research and education in the Centre will offer a comprehensive approach to Analytical Science, helping to provide the UK with the skills base essential to remain internationally competitive.Warwick will nurture the new Centre by guaranteeing long-term support for the area, and by investing heavily in state-of-the-art equipment, purpose-built accommodation and infrastructure. There will be development of modules for CPD, PG and UG training which will help sustainability.