“若拥有你需要的所有资源，你最What are the scientific issues I want to explore? "Yan Ning, the founding dean of the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences (planning) and director of the Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, has aroused discussion and attention of Chinese public opinion in the past few days.
Yan Ning posted on personal Weibo last Saturday (July 8) that I recently participated in a doctoral student to exempt interviews.The best undergraduates and master students who can recruit are the best qualifications.
In addition to the conventional Q & A, Yan Ning asked the interviewer: "After 10 years, you have become a PI (Principal Investigator, that is, a blog director who led a laboratory independently), youWith all resources required (excellent scientific research team, sufficient funds, perfect experimental equipment, a lot of time), what are the scientific issues you want to explore most? In other words, what scientific issues or in this life orTechnical difficulties, you can answer or breakthrough, you feel that there is no regret in this life? "
Yan Ning said, there is no standard answer in this question, but no more than 20 interview students answeredEssence
Yan Ning said, I also reflected whether it was too early to ask the undergraduate to ask this question, "But I always look forward to one or two students who can talk about their brains.Does the scientific research target really make people want to study from the inside? "
She also wrote on Weibo:" You have such a good starting point and support conditions, you must Dream Big AimHigh (dare to dream, goals)! "
Under Yan Ning's Weibo, some netizens commented that interviews are not suitable for asking these.The mind or exposure of some of your scientific research potential that you don't like is eliminated. "Some netizens commented that" Teacher Yan is a real life instructor. "
Yan Ning, 45, graduated from the Department of Biology and Technology of Tsinghua University, and Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University.In 2007, he served as a professor and doctoral supervisor of Tsinghua University and became the youngest professor in Tsinghua.
Yan Ning was hired as a lifelong lecturer at the Department of Molecular Biology of Princeton University in May 2017.Elected as a foreign academician of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Yan Ning announced at the Shenzhen Global Innovation Talent Forum on November 1, 2022 that he will resign from the faculty of Princeton University and serve as the founding dean of Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences.This month, Yan Ning was also elected foreign members of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
