Yan Xuelin had predicted long ago that Zhao Yi would face a cold reception when seeking collaborators for research, just as when he appointed Zhao Yi as a researcher, his goal was to invest in the ’future’, not the ’present’.
The difference is quite significant.
Zhao Yi is a genius in mathematics and computer science. His conjectural paper on myocarditis pathology demonstrated his talent in dical research. However, he is still only a novice; he lacks even the basic knowledge to be considered a ’novice’.
Others share the sa opinion. They know that Zhao Yi’s foundational knowledge is weak. He hasn’t even completed his undergraduate studies, so how can he design experints or conduct research projects?
At the sa ti, many people feel that Zhao Yi’s conjecture on myocarditis pathology is sowhat down to luck. He only watched a simplified experintal process, made so conjectures in his mind, and then published them directly.
Although most of them have been proven to be correct, there is still a significant elent of luck involved.
In subjects like mathematics and physics, inspiration often plays a pivotal role. dical research, however, relies on continuous experintation and data for analysis and summarization. Basic understanding is more important than inspiration.
Another issue is the system.
The Biodical Research Institute operates within an organizational hierarchy. An Associate Researcher’s position is secure and paid a fixed salary. The primary pursuit for most of them is ’climbing the ladder’.
An Associate Researcher yearns to be promoted to Researcher, an Assistant Researcher seeks the security of an Associate Researcher’s position, and PhDs and graduate students just follow their ntors’ projects.
Under the current circumstances, Associate Researchers and Assistant Researchers are under a fixed leadership. Unless they’re extrely unhappy, it’s unlikely they’ll leave to collaborate with Zhao Yi on research projects.
Of course, there are so Assistant Researchers - the ’Post Docs in probation’ - who want to collaborate with Zhao Yi despite the slim chance of staying on.
The next day Zhao Yi t one-- Liu Chengjie.
Within the Biodical Research Institute, Liu Chengjie ranks at the very bottom. He is even under the PhD students who work directly under their ntors.
Liu Chengjie previously worked in Li Hongshan’s lab. He was down on his luck. Li Hongshan had just completed a project and had been dispatched to Europe for an academic exchange, which lasted nearly a year.
The other mbers of Li Hongshan’s lab were not generous enough to share their projects with a ’Post Doc with slim chances of staying on’ since there are so many like him.
In every research institution, Post Docs are the most transient. Over two-thirds leave after two years to find a job. Staying on really depends on luck.
This is mostly due to rules. Incoming Post Docs need to achieve results within a short period of ti in order to be promoted to Associate Researcher. Otherwise, they have to leave.
It is not easy for most PhD graduates to achieve results in a short period of ti within a research institute, especially in the field of dical research. They usually need to be led by a Researcher.
So Liu Chengjie is very unfortunate. His contract with the institute was set to expire in half a year, and without any results, he was certain to leave and find a job.
At this point, Liu Chengjie decided to throw caution to the wind. He heard that Zhao Yi was looking for personnel, so he decided to try his luck.
Although others believed that it was unlikely Zhao Yi would achieve any results, collaborating with him was almost the sa as working for oneself.
But... what if?
For Liu Chengjie, a glimr of hope was better than none. He confidently said, "Zhao... Brother Zhao, I want to work with you. I know quite a bit too."
He wasn’t very confident.
Although he had worked in the research institute for a year and a half, as an outsider without a long-term ntor, Liu Chengjie was amongst the least skilled there.
"Don’t call brother. I’m not that old. Just call by my na." Zhao Yi was very pleased. He had thought that only Zhang Wei would join him, but now there was one more.
"Work hard!"
"Rest assured, working with will definitely yield results!"
Zhao Yi was most happy that his lab team was shaping up. There was him, an ’intern with a researcher’s salary’, Zhang Wei the Associate Researcher, and now an ’Assistant Researcher’. They now had mbers at the top, middle, and bottom levels.
Excellent.
Zhao Yi, along with Zhang Wei and Liu Chengjie, began cleaning the lab, removing unnecessary items, and brought in so basic experintal tools from the storage room.
Afterwards, he went to the institute director’s office to look for suitable projects.
Yan Xuelin simply gave him a list, detailing the institute’s accumulated projects, a brief introduction, and remaining research and developnt funds.
"If you can complete any of these projects, the leftover funds are yours." Yan Xuelin said with a smile.
The stagnating projects in the research institute are those that had secured funding but had not been completed. So were abandoned due to high difficulty, others due to unexpected incidents, etc.
So of the funds for these projects had been spent. Reporting the expenditure directly would negatively impact the institute. So, these projects were held in abeyance.
It’s like police investigations. So cases just cannot be solved and have to be set aside.
If soone else can complete a project using the remaining funds, it’s not only beneficial for the institute, but the higher-ups would also be thrilled to see this. They would no longer need to allocate additional funds for the sa project, and they would also not need to report the direction of the subsequent funding.
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