Under the non-promotion and leave-out employment system of domestic universities, it is very difficult for a doctoral student to become an associate professor, because the school wants your project or research results.
A few days ago, Song Kai, a returnee doctor from Nanjing Agricultural University, was demoted to a lecturer because he did not pass the school's four-year employment assessment, and he chose to commit suicide by taking medicine;
Two days later, a female teacher at Huaqiao University was dismissed for failing the school's assessment, and despite being nine months pregnant, she still did not receive the school's favor.
As soon as these two incidents came out, they aroused great concern from public opinion for a while. In fact, there is no obvious mistake in the school's handling of them, because this is a gamble in itself - the school hired you as an associate professor because it expects you to win the project or research results, and you do not fulfill your promise during the term of office, even if you are dismissed, it is reasonable to be dismissed - of course, it is indeed a bit uncomfortable for a female teacher to be dismissed when she is pregnant, which is a clear violation of the Labor Law.
They were dealt with by the school, and to put it bluntly, it has a lot to do with their lack of scientific research ability. And people with strong scientific research ability, that is, what kind of strict requirements the school has, they can easily handle it, there is not much difficulty, for example, Professor Chen Gao of the University of Science and Technology of China, is one of the leaders.
Professor Chen Gao became a professor and a doctoral supervisor at the age of 24. He became a professor at the University of Science and Technology of China at the age of 26.
When Chen Gao was in elementary school, he was a child of someone else's family in the eyes of his parents. When I was in elementary school, I skipped two grades. She went to junior high school at the age of nine and high school at the age of 12. After only two years of high school, he successfully entered the junior class of USTC with his intelligence and hard work.
After entering the university, his learning ability and scientific research ability have been further explored. In 2012, he completed his undergraduate studies with honors and went on to pursue his Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
During his Ph.D., he cooperated with his supervisor, Professor Chen Xiuxiong, to successfully solve the "gravitational instanton" problem proposed by Stephen Hawking, winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics, which attracted wide attention from the international mathematical community.
Because of his excellent academic performance, he was recommended by big-name mathematicians such as Fields Medal winner Sir Donaldson and Wolf Prize winner Professor Sullivan to work as a postdoctoral researcher at the prestigious Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
After completing his postdoctoral research, he was hired as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he began supervising doctoral students, becoming one of the youngest doctoral supervisors in the university's history.
In 2021, Chen Gao resolutely returned to his alma mater, USTC, and was hired as a professor by an exception, when he was only 27 years old. During his research at USTC, Chen Gao overcame the world's problems in the field of complex differential geometry, which attracted the attention of the international mathematical community. He published a paper entitled "Deformation of J-equations and supercritical Hermitt-Chenning-Mills equations" in the journal New Advances in Mathematics.
This paper provides an extremely useful reference for solving problems in the mathematical community, which has attracted the attention of the international mathematical community, and Lawson, an academician of the American Academy of Sciences, and others cited it for the first time. Therefore, Chen Gao won the Damo Academy Young Fellow Award that year.
Chen Gao was hired as a professor at the age of 27, on the one hand, because of his excellence, and on the other hand, it also shows that domestic universities have begun to break down the barriers of seniority and give young scholars the opportunity to display their talents.
It is a blessing for the country that young scholars born in the 90s have emerged in the scientific research community. Because they have a global vision and a more abundant spirit of innovation, they can only be trained with heart so that the mainland's science and technology can be fully developed and progressed.
Science and technology are the primary productive forces. If any country wants to develop its science and technology, it must establish a young scientific research team. Researchers in the field of aerospace on the mainland have gradually become younger, which is the result of decades of efforts, and we also hope that in other fields, our young scholars will emerge in large numbers.
For Dr. Song Kai and the female teacher of Huaqiao University, their experience undoubtedly sounded the alarm for those students who are struggling on the academic road: in the pursuit of scientific research, in addition to having a solid academic foundation and innovation ability, we must also have perseverance and courage to face failure.
However, Professor Chen's success has set a shining example for us. His growth trajectory fully demonstrates the cultivation path of outstanding talents: he has shown extraordinary talent since childhood, and gradually emerged in the field of scientific research through systematic learning and training, and finally became an internationally renowned scholar. His success is not only due to his personal efforts and talents, but also inseparable from the country's attention to and cultivation of young talents.
In fact, more and more young scholars are making their mark in the field of scientific research on the mainland. They have a global vision and an innovative spirit, and they are an important driving force for the development of science and technology on the mainland. However, we should also note that in the field of scientific research, there are still some factors that hinder the development of young scholars, such as seniority and uneven distribution of resources.
Therefore, we need to carry out more reforms and innovations at the institutional level to provide more opportunities and space for young scholars to develop. For example, the scientific research evaluation system can be further improved, and more attention can be paid to the quality and actual contribution of scientific research results; We can increase investment and support for young scientific research talents, and provide them with more resources and platforms; It can also strengthen international cooperation and exchanges, and promote the exchange and cooperation of outstanding scientific research talents at home and abroad.
In short, Professor Gao's success has pointed out the direction of scientific research development for us. We need to pay more attention to the cultivation and development of young scholars, and provide them with more opportunities and platforms so that they can give full play to their talents and potentials and contribute to the development of science and technology on the mainland. At the same time, we also need to continue to promote reform and innovation in the field of scientific research, and inject new vitality and impetus into the prosperity and development of scientific research.
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