Warwick Centre for Analytical Science

分析科学包括开发和应用新的方法来测量所有类型的人造物质和天然物质的组成和结构。英国的分析部门支撑着许多重要的行业(如食品、化工、制药、环境、医疗和材料)，对过程和成本控制、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和司法服务至关重要。至关重要的是，分析科学的进步对于材料和生命科学等许多关键研究领域的进步也是至关重要的。现代分析问题通常需要三维高空间分辨率，从而产生非常大的、复杂的数据集。此外，还需要结合来自不同来源的多个数据集的信息。最近的官方评估警告称，尽管分析科学对英国的经济和科学竞争力至关重要，但它在英国受到的尊重很低，而且支离破碎，而且缺乏跨学科。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振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巨资，在化学、物理、统计、工程、生物科学和医学院等系拥有强大的分析科学研究基础。在这一理念的基础上，我们响应第四次科学与创新号召，提议在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以及质谱学)开设讲座，并将与华威分析科学的不同研究相结合，建立一个新的分析科学中心，预计将提高分析科学在英国和世界范围内的知名度。认识到科学进步关键取决于不同学科和部门之间的交流与合作，中心的一个主要目标将是将学术界和工业界的人士聚集在一起，目的是为确定、定义和实施新的分析科学研究目标提供一个平台，包括开发新的仪器和数据获取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。正如兰伯特报告所述，知识转移的最佳形式涉及人与人之间的互动。因此，该中心将有一个学术/工业咨询委员会，并将通过其新的分析论坛发展一个访客和外联计划，不仅使公共和私营部门分析工具的开发者和用户之间能够交流想法、知识和技术，还将促进新的合作。在资源充足的跨国、多学科环境中，通过提供由博士生和博士后研究人员支持的优秀研究设施，最高质量的申请者将被吸引。该中心将制定分析科学、统计学和可转让技能方面的培训方案。该中心的研究和教育一体化将为分析科学提供全面的方法，有助于为英国提供保持国际竞争力所必需的技能基础。华威将通过保证对该地区的长期支持以及在最先进的设备、专门建造的住宿和基础设施方面的大量投资来培育新的中心。将开发用于CPD、PG和UG培训的模块，这将有助于可持续性。

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.