What Jinling computational materials research needs is research-oriented talents, and talents will not grow out of the ground by themselves. Although short-term needs can be solved by poaching people with high salaries, there is no future for research institutes without hematopoietic capacity.

From a long-term perspective, Lu Zhou needs a group of capable researchers to help him do experiments. At the same time, he also needs to use the purchased equipment and researchers to help him incubate more talents.

Although there is no guarantee that these students who come to him for internships will choose to work in his institute after graduation, as long as they can stay a third of it, it is not a loss.

For the gains and losses in this regard, Lu Zhou is not particularly concerned.

Unlike the average entrepreneur, he doesn't do these things entirely for money, nor for some noble reason. Even if there is a little bit of it, it is only a by-product of the reaction.

His purest purpose is simply to be able to conduct his own research as he pleases, to reveal the hidden secrets of the system, and to see the farther future.

And this is difficult to achieve by his own strength.

Therefore, in the conversation with Dean Li, Lu Zhou put forward the request of dignitaries, saying that in addition to recruiting a group of doctoral students to participate in research, his institute also plans to recruit a group of master's students and undergraduates to participate in the project in the form of internships.

After Dean Li reflected Lu Zhou's proposal to the school, Academician Xu immediately agreed.

The old gentleman himself belonged to the "reformers" with advanced ideas, and no matter whether or not the controversial "three-three system" of Kim University achieved the desired results, at least it showed that the determination of the school's top management to try reform was still quite large.

According to the cooperation agreement between Jinling Institute of Computational Materials and Jinling University, 30 undergraduates, 10 master's students, and 1-3 doctoral students will be recruited from the Institute of Computational Materials every year to engage in some basic and auxiliary research tasks.

If the methodology proves to be feasible, this number will be further expanded.

Far from delaying students' studies, these internships allow them to strengthen their understanding of professional knowledge in practice.

Especially for undergraduate students, the exposure to research is quite limited.

It is precisely for this reason that as soon as the school's documents were issued, the students of the Institute of Chemical Engineering enthusiastically participated.

Especially for juniors and seniors who plan to pursue a career in the field of research, the application rate is so high that they have to be screened by the ranking of major grade points.

As for the freshmen and sophomores, Lu Zhou also allocated a part of the places.

Although the younger students still need to be strengthened in terms of professional knowledge, they are all potential stocks and have a lot of room for plasticity.

Even if you can't read the literature and can't do experiments, you just mix in the laboratory to help clean up, listen to the bragging, you can recognize two more drugs and broaden your horizons.

"The top students of our chemical institute are all on this list," holding a list and finding Lu Zhou, Academician Li said in a half-joking tone, "We have to say okay first, talent training belongs to talent training, don't turn all the baby bumps of our chemical institute to study mathematics." ”

Lu Zhou said with a smile, "Don't worry about this, I promise how many people I borrow, and how many people will still be when I return them." ”

Computational materials science, as the name suggests, must study mathematics, but it must still be based on chemistry. In frontier research, the boundaries between disciplines are not so clear, and if you plan to develop in the direction of research in the future, it never hurts to learn more.

"That's what you said, I can remember this sentence," Dean Li said with a smile, solemnly handing the roster to Lu Zhou's hand, "Then please!" ”

It's not just the list that's in place, there's also an idle laboratory building.

The new laboratory building was originally intended to be used as a laboratory for the mechanics of materials, which could be used to house the newly acquired equipment such as dynamic mechanical analyzers, electronic tensile testing machines, and quartz crystal micro-balances.

As a result, the building was built, and the instrument was not in place for the time being, so it was borrowed by Lu Zhou.

After borrowing the experimental site, Lu Zhou immediately asked the faculty members to pack up an office for him and use it as his temporary office location.

These days, he basically stays in Jinda. The office is in the school's laboratory, the meal is in the school's cafeteria, and as for the residence, it is in the hotel near the Golden University.

Although he has rented a house in the university town, there is no one living in the mess, and it is too troublesome to clean up, and the house is full of Xiao Ai's chassis.

Even every time he called someone from the computer store to help with hardware maintenance, the people at the computer store complained to him about how long the house hadn't been occupied.

For the sake of the Jinling Institute of Computational Materials, Lu Zhou even sent an email to his student and teaching assistant Vera, asking her to help her write an application for teaching affairs at Princeton University, extending the vacation by half a month.

Although he doesn't care much about the salary of a professor anymore, the work of a professor can give him inspiration for research, and at the same time, it also allows him to reflect on the "obvious" questions and whether they are really as obvious as they seem.

In this regard, he and Mr. Fermi share the same view, and there is no conflict between learning and cultivating students.

At the same time, watching your students grow into top scholars is quite rewarding in itself.

Fortunately, his number theory class only started at the end of February, and the interview for the fall admission can be conducted via video and will not have any impact.

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When people are recruited, the next step is to arrange jobs for these people.

Interns can sit down until the program officially begins. However, in order not to delay the progress of the research, the recruitment of formal researchers still has to be arranged as soon as possible.

In the office of the experimental building, Lu Zhou saw Senior Brother Qian and Senior Brother Liu for a long time.

As soon as they met, he asked the first thing he said.

"Professor Li didn't scold me."

Liu said helplessly: "No, just let me get out of a friendly way." ”

Hearing this, Lu Zhou smiled a little embarrassedly.

It was also a last resort to poach people from Professor Li, and the laboratory in Silicon Valley had just been completed, and there was no shortage of people to parachute in. And Hua Guo's side, among the people he knows, there are only two senior brothers who can be trusted.

In particular, Qian Zhongming, although he is only a master's degree, his professionalism in the field of materials science has undoubtedly reached the level of a doctorate. Especially in research, he has been involved in many R&D projects, and even some PhDs cannot compare with him.

In fact, it is precisely for this reason that Professor Li holds him high.

"Senior brother, don't call it, I'm also here to learn from a teacher, I'm afraid I'll have to call you a master in the future." may be because he didn't wear a white coat, Qian Zhongming made a rare joke.

"The master doesn't dare to be, I also learned a lot from you, let's learn from each other." Lu Zhou said with a smile.

Qian Zhongming shook his head and said seriously: "The little thing I taught you is just some scratch skin, you can learn it by following any teacher to do projects." However, I can only ask you for advice on the knowledge of computational materials, and I hope that I will not be able to teach you in the future. ”

Seeing that Senior Brother Qian was so serious, Lu Zhou could only smile helplessly.

Clearing his throat, he turned the conversation back to business.

"This time our project belongs to the key scientific research projects in the national new energy development plan, to be specific, it is to solve the shuttle effect in lithium-sulfur batteries, I believe you should have heard of it."

Senior Brother Qian nodded, indicating that he already understood the importance of this project: "How is it, do you have an idea?" ”

"It's a little, but it's still vague." Lu Zhou shook his head and continued, "But the problem that we need to solve now is not this, but the instrument. ”

Qian Zhongming and Liu Bo nodded in unison.

Instruments are the key to all experiments, and no experiment can be done without equipment. Even if the model of the material is calculated mathematically, the correctness of the theory can only be verified through experiments.

After a pause, Lu Zhou continued.

"I've already contacted Umicore to find their partner manufacturers and order a batch of instruments. Although I asked Star Technology to hire a few experts to go to Europe for acceptance, I still had to have a trustworthy person to sign there. Therefore, I can only trouble you on the first day of work, and go on a business trip to Europe. ”

"It's fine." Qian Zhongming smiled faintly and said, "In the past, Professor Li also bought the instrument, and this kind of valuable thing really can't be sloppy, not only a matter of money, but also related to whether the measured data is reliable." ”

Lu Zhou nodded and said, "Well, then please leave it to you." ”

Seeing that his senior brother had already made arrangements, and he hadn't had a task yet, Liu Bo couldn't sit still, raised his hand and asked.

"What about me?"

"Your words, I hope you will go with Senior Brother Qian," looking at Senior Brother Liu with an expectant face, Lu Zhou smiled and said, "He will go alone, and I am not very relieved." ”