Physics-Life Sciences Interface C-DIP Fellowship Fund, EPSRC Leadership Fellowship Dr. Paola Borri

作为卡迪夫大学（Cardiff University）生物科学学院（School of Biosciences）的一名物理学家，我对在物理学和生命科学的交汇处工作所带来的好处和挑战有着直接的体验。虽然在卡迪夫大学，人们对这一跨学科研究的兴趣越来越大，但缺乏一种有组织的机制来提高人们对现有专业知识的认识，将英国国内外物理学和生命科学的研究人员联系起来，并启动新的跨学科研究。我建议利用C-DIP基金来克服这一不足，并支持有组织的活动，这些活动将促进和刺激卡迪夫大学物理-生命科学界面和更广泛的科学界的跨学科研究。这些活动将包括：i)在卡迪夫大学举行的一系列为期一天的专题会议，涵盖物理-生命科学界面的研究课题；i)一个小型研讨会，为领先的科学家和早期职业研究人员提供一个论坛，让他们可以见面和互动；ii)访问在物理-生命科学界面工作的杰出海外科学家；iv)种子玉米基金，以完成一项研究或开展物理-生命科学的初步研究接口。

As a physicists appointed to the School of Biosciences at Cardiff University I have direct experience of the benefits but also of the challenges associated with working at the interface between physics and the life sciences. While at Cardiff University there is growing interest in this cross-disciplinary research, an organised mechanism is missing to create awareness of the available expertise, to connect researchers from physics and the life sciences both within UK and internationally, and to initiate new cross-disciplinary research.I propose to make use of the C-DIP fund to overcome this shortfall and support organised activities which will promote and stimulate cross-disciplinary research at the physics-life science interface at Cardiff University and in the wider scientific community. These activities will comprise:i) a series of one-day topical meetings held at Cardiff University covering research subjects at the physics-life science interfaceii) a mini-symposium to provide a forum in which leading scientists and early-career researchers can meet and interactiii) visits from/to outstanding overseas scientists working at the physics-life sciences interface iv) seed corn funding to complete a piece of research or to carry out initial research at the physics-life sciences interface.