EPRSC Resource Only Strategic Equipment: the Warwick Analytical Science Centre

获得分析仪器是科学进步的核心；从最早的日子到17世纪初第一台荷兰显微镜的问世，到当代科学最先进领域的前沿。绝大多数知识的进步和突破都与分析设备的发明或改进有关，这些设备的可获得性使现代科学和技术得以实现和维持。因此，没有核磁共振光谱的化学、没有电子显微镜的分子生物学或没有X射线衍射的材料科学是不可能想象的。华威大学是英国最重要的分析科学中心之一，拥有国际领先的分析设备基础设施，支持从功能材料(催化剂、聚合物、复合材料、电池电极、光伏、钢铁、纳米颗粒、钻石和量子材料)到生物医学研究(药物、新型抗菌剂、感染剂检测、生物冷冻保存、药物输送、新陈代谢和衰老，以及细菌耐药性)等研究领域。华威管理这一独特设施的理念一直是努力使从本科生到教授的所有研究人员都能接触到它，这一承诺植根于大学的研究战略。这是通过将最先进、最先进的设备组织成一系列大学范围的研究技术平台(RTP)和供内部和外部用户使用的跨部门设施来实现的。这种独特的模式将经常或偶尔有终端用户的专家和仪器开发人员聚集在一起，是化学系、工程系、生命科学系和物理系以及其他一些英国大学和工业合作伙伴之间大量非常成功的合作研究计划的来源。该建议旨在维持和扩大对华威分析设备基础设施的访问，特别注重支持研究和研究生培训，同时扩大多学科合作和最终用户参与。这将通过对研究技术专业人员的投资来实现，他们对于从现有的大量基础设施投资中获得最佳利益是不可或缺的。他们的存在将是以最高标准对中部地区和整个英国的博士生进行有效和持续培训的重要资产，并将为他们提供超过480天的种子玉米在华威使用分析科学仪器。RTPros还将负责展示为博士生提供资金的情况，并通过组织全国分析科学会议来传播分析科学的最佳实践，这些会议将有英国大学、学术团体和行业参加。这项投资的总体愿景是大幅推动分析科学在英国的发展，华威大学在全国扮演着关键角色，作为卓越中心和其发展和实践的灯塔。

Access to analytical instrumentation lies at the heart of scientific progress; from the earliest days, with the availability of the first Dutch microscopes in the early 17th century, to the cutting edge of most advanced fields of contemporary science. The vast majority of advances and breakthroughs in knowledge are linked to the invention or improvement of analytical equipment and their availability both enables and sustains modern science and technology. Thus, it would not be possible to imagine chemistry without nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, molecular biology without electron microscopy, or material science without X-ray diffraction.The University of Warwick is one of the foremost centres for analytical science in the UK, with an internationally leading analytical equipment infrastructure underpinning an unrivalled spectrum of research areas, from functional materials (catalysts, polymers, composites, battery electrodes, photovoltaics, steels, nanoparticles, diamond and quantum materials) to biomedical research (pharmaceuticals, novel antimicrobials, detection of infectious agents, biologic cryopreservation, drug delivery, metabolism and ageing, and bacterial antibiotic resistance). Warwick's philosophy in managing this unique set of facilities has been characterised by the drive to maximise its access for all researchers from undergraduate students to Professors, a commitment that is grounded in the University's Research Strategy. This has been achieved by organising the most advanced, state-of-the-art equipment into a range of university-wide Research Technology Platforms (RTPs) and interdepartmental facilities available to both internal and external users. This unique model brings together experts and instrument developers with frequent or occasional end-users and has been the origin of a large number of highly successful collaborative research initiatives across the Departments of Chemistry, Engineering, Life Sciences and Physics, and with a number of other UK universities and industrial partners.This proposal is aimed at sustaining and expanding the access to Warwick's analytical equipment infrastructure, with a particular focus towards supporting research and postgraduate training and, concurrently, expanding multi-disciplinary collaboration and end-user engagement. This will be achieved by investing in research technical professionals (RTProfs), who are integral to deriving optimum benefit from the existing substantial infrastructure investment. Their presence will represent an essential asset for the effective and consistent training, at the highest standards, of PhD students in the Midlands and across the UK and will provide them with over 480 days of seed-corn use of the analytical science instrumentation at Warwick. The RTProfs will also be responsible for showcasing the availability of funding for PhD students and for disseminating analytical science best practice, through the organisation of national analytical science meetings that will involve UK universities, learned societies, and industry.This investment has an overarching vision to substantially promote analytical sciences to the UK, with Warwick playing a key role nationally as hub of excellence and a beacon for its development and practice.