Chapter 228 Chuanhai Materials Research Institute

After getting Brother Fan from his mentor and making him a consultant for his own research institute, Xu Chuan left with satisfaction.

As for the acquisition of the research institute called "Zijin Composite Materials Research Laboratory", it naturally fell to Fan Pengyue.

Xu Chuan didn't care about it, and didn't even go to the research institute to take a look.

Because Chen Zhengping gave him very detailed information, from building facilities to scientific researchers, to the service life and status of various equipment in the laboratory, etc., all had very complete records.

With such information, plus Brother Fan to check for him, it didn't matter whether he went to the site or not.

Before officially starting the research work, he had to deal with some other things.

Following the familiar road, Xu Chuan came all the way to the office of Principal Liu Gaojun.

After knocking on the door, a voice came from inside: "Come in."

Xu Chuan pushed the door open and walked in, smiling and greeting: "Principal."

At the desk, Liu Gaojun was processing the documents on the table. He looked up and saw Xu Chuan. He was a little surprised and stunned for a second before a smile appeared on his face.

Getting up from his office chair, Liu Gaojun smiled and walked to the office cabinet nearby, taking tea leaves from it to make tea while greeting Xu Chuan.

"Why didn't you say hello before you came back? The school didn't even have time to welcome you."

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "It's not an important matter, why make it so complicated."

Liu Gaojun smiled and said, "How can it not be an important matter for a Fields Medal winner to visit Nanjing University."

Xu Chuan smiled and shook his head, jokingly saying, "Why don't we do this, Shuimu invites me to be a professor, I will go there, and then every time I come back to see you, you will greet me?"

Hearing this, Liu Gaojun said seriously, "That won't work, we have already agreed in advance."

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "That's it, he is not an outsider, why make it so troublesome."

"I like this." Liu Gaojun laughed, feeling happy about Xu Chuan's words of "his own people".

After chatting for a while, Liu Gaojun brought a cup of tea and asked: "Have you found a place to live here?"

Xu Chuan shook his head and said: "Not yet, I'm looking for a house."

He didn't worry about where to live. When he met with the head Mu before returning to China, he had talked about it. No matter which city he worked in China, the country would allocate him a corresponding house.

If he didn't find a house, he could just stay in a hotel and get reimbursed. There was no problem with that.

Liu Gaojun: "There are some villas here for professors to stay. Some are in Zijin Mountain, and some are in various schools. You can pick one here? See if there is one you like?"

Xu Chuan thought about it and said, "Okay, let's take a look. The houses here are closer to the school, and it is convenient for me to work as a professor here."

"But I should buy another one to facilitate some other research and things."

Liu Gaojun didn't care and smiled, "Okay, then I'll have someone send the housing information to your email, and you can pick one."

Neither of them cared about living, although with the housing prices in Jinling, a villa is almost tens of millions, and the ones with good geographical locations are more expensive.

But for Xu Chuan and Nanjing University, a villa is not a big deal.

After taking a sip of hot tea, Liu Gaojun continued, "The military training will be over in a while. Do you have time for the opening ceremony? The school would like to invite you to give a speech on stage to encourage the freshmen."

Xu Chuan asked, "Which day?"

He had previously rejected Shuimu's invitation to the opening ceremony, but there are differences in closeness and distance between people. Nanjing University is his alma mater. If he has time, he is still willing to give a speech at Nanjing University. If he really doesn't have time, then there is nothing he can do.

"It is currently scheduled for September 25th." Liu Gaojun replied.

Xu Chuan thought for a while and said, "It should be possible. Let's talk about it then. It mainly depends on whether there are other things at that time. I talked to the above about some scientific research projects some time ago. They have been decided and are being started. I may be busy at that time."

Liu Gaojun nodded. As the president of Nanjing University, he is of a high level and knows some things, so he just invited them.

Skipping this, he then asked, "There is another thing. How do you arrange your courses?"

"Let's start with an 'Algebraic Geometry' course, but I will arrange the specific teaching time." After a pause, Xu Chuan spoke.

As a professor at Nanjing University, his position is the same as that at Princeton University, and he has to teach and lead students.

However, at his level, he has a lot of freedom in teaching, and it doesn't matter whether he teaches or not, especially when he has other research.

After staying at Nanjing University for a few days, completing the professor's entry procedures, dealing with some daily trivial matters such as residence, Fan Pengyue's work on acquiring the research institute was also completed.

With a fund of 12 million yuan, Xu Chuan purchased the 'Zijin Composite Materials Research Laboratory' that he had selected before.

This is his first private research institute in China.

After the Industrial and Commercial Bureau changed the name of the institute to 'Chuanhai Materials Research Institute', Xu Chuan came to this laboratory located near Zijin Mountain for the first time.

The former boss of the institute has left, and Fan Pengyue is now in charge.

Although he is only a postdoctoral fellow, fortunately, the scale of the institute is not large, and there are not many researchers in it, only a dozen people.

Fan Pengyue can still manage a dozen people. When he was doing experiments with Chen Zhengping for his doctorate, he was often responsible for managing the entire project.

"Boss, you are here."

In the Chuanhai Materials Research Institute, Fan Pengyue ran out to greet him after receiving the call.

For Xu Chuan, his name has changed. Before, he could call him Junior Brother or Chuan Junior Brother in school, but now their status has changed, and Fan Pengyue still knows it clearly.

"How is the research institute organized, Senior Brother Fan. When can we start material research?" Xu Chuan didn't care about Fan Pengyue's name and followed him into the building.

Fan Pengyue: "The relevant information and data have been sorted out. According to your previous request, there is no adjustment in personnel for the time being."

"However, after hearing that the institute changed its boss, three people resigned voluntarily. The three people who resigned are two salesmen and one quality manager. These two need to be re-employed."

"In addition, there are a total of 23 people left in the institute, including two formal researchers, three assistant researchers, four doctoral students, and four master's students."

"The others are financial and quality managers and some miscellaneous personnel."

"As for material research experiments, they are available at any time. I can temporarily fill in the lack of quality managers."

Fan Pengyue quickly reported the information sorted out in the past two days. After listening carefully, Xu Chuan nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work. The missing personnel must be quickly filled."

"As for now, go and meet those researchers first. If there is no problem, the institute should start moving and cannot be idle all the time."

Fan Pengyue nodded. This is the benefit of acquiring a complete institute or laboratory.

As long as the personnel changes are not big, it can be quickly invested in subsequent research and development, including material research experiments that have not been completed before, which can also be continued.

In the office, Xu Chuan looked at more than a dozen researchers and other leaders in the laboratory. At the same time, these researchers and leaders were also looking at the new boss anxiously.

For a small material research institute, the change of boss is a big deal, especially for two formal researchers.

Because they all have previous research projects in their hands, no one knows whether the new boss will cut these projects or reduce research funds after taking office.

This is related to their own vital interests. If the project is cut, then all the time and energy invested before will be wasted.

More than a dozen researchers looked at Xu Chuan with different eyes, some curious, some surprised, some excited, and some shocked.

Not everyone recognized Xu Chuan. There are also many people who concentrate on their own research and don’t pay much attention to external affairs.

When everyone was gathered, Fan Pengyue presided over the meeting.

"Today's meeting, first of all, let me introduce our new boss to everyone. I hope everyone won’t be too excited for a while."

At the conference table, Fan Pengyue smiled and said, which aroused the curiosity of some people and made others who recognized Xu Chuan more excited.

"Xu Chuan, Professor Xu, this year's Fields Medal winner, prover of the Hodge conjecture, from today on, he is the new boss of our 'Chuanhai Materials Research Institute'."

"Everyone, welcome him with applause."

After the words fell, loud applause broke out in the not-so-large conference room. Some researchers who recognized Xu Chuan in advance clapped vigorously, their faces full of excitement and excitement.

While the faces of the other people who didn't know were full of astonishment.

Although they didn't recognize Xu Chuan, it didn't mean that they hadn't heard of this name.

However, no one expected that this legendary name would appear in front of them today and become their boss.

Xu Chuan stood up, smiled and nodded and greeted the people in the conference room.

"It's our first meeting. I'm very happy to meet you all. I hope that everything will go smoothly and we can get along happily in the future work."

In the conference room, the applause became even more enthusiastic. In a small meeting with less than 20 people, the applause gave off the feeling of a sea of ​​people.

Xu Chuan pressed his hand to suppress the fierce applause, and then said: "Today's meeting, I am just an audience, and Fan Pengyue will host it."

Fan Pengyue nodded and took over the topic from Xu Chuan.

"Everyone has seen our boss, and I believe the future of the institute will definitely be brighter."

".Next are some work arrangements."

"First of all, the material research and development experiment. At present, the two formal researchers have their own independent material experiments. I understand the relevant progress and the situation."

"But from today on, both of you will suspend your material research and development projects first, and then there will be other tasks assigned."

In the conference room, Fan Pengyue distributed the relevant work, and Xu Chuan carefully observed the performance of each researcher.

It was his arrangement to directly suspend all research projects.

In fact, it doesn't matter if it is not suspended. For a material laboratory with a total asset of only 10 or 20 million, two projects actually do not account for much research funds. At most, it is a million or so. It's okay for him to continue to allocate funds for research and development.

But he wants to take the opportunity to see some of the performance of the researchers in the institute.

He is different from the previous boss of this research institute. He does not currently need these scientific researchers to have strong innovative capabilities. As long as they are obedient enough and able to do experiments, that is enough. He will arrange all the projects.

But at the same time, he didn't want people who were just idling around in the team.

Suspending the institute's projects would hurt the interests of most people in the institute, and only when their own interests were hurt could people's hearts be best reflected.

As Fan Pengyue made the arrangements, there was a slight commotion in the conference room.

The new boss took office and directly suspended all previous research, which was fatal to the researchers in the laboratory.

After all, the bonuses, performance, and income of the project were all linked to the experimental projects.

If it were somewhere else, the boss dared to suspend the experimental projects of formal researchers for no reason, and the researchers would dare to resign directly.

But here, no one spoke up, no one raised any objections, and the two formal researchers whose projects were cut didn't even frown.

No one would be a fool to be a formal researcher, and fools couldn't get to this position.

For a scientific researcher, they know what it means to be able to do scientific research with a Fields Medal winner.

Funds, resources, top scientific research journals, fame, and other things that were almost inaccessible before will be within reach in the future.

Whether it is for talents who want to make further progress in academics or for part-timers who want to earn more money, whether to choose to continue their own research or to follow a top expert and start over, everyone knows how to choose.

After all, in the academic world, it can be said that as long as you have a reputation, you have everything.

Otherwise, there would not be so many scientific researchers who would rather not have money, as long as they are given the opportunity to do experiments, and would try their best to get into the laboratory of a top expert.

Being able to do odd jobs under the hands of a top expert is also a kind of gilding.

In the conference room, Fan Pengyue's arrangements are still continuing.

". In the next period of time, the main tasks of the Chuanhai Materials Research Institute are in two aspects."

"The first is the research and development of electrolyte materials in lithium batteries."

"The second is the research and development of artificial SEI film materials in lithium batteries."

"The two projects are the work of the institute in the future. Researcher Yu Zhen is responsible for the research and development of electrolyte materials, and researcher Ye Zan is responsible for the research and development of artificial SEI film materials."

"Other researchers will continue to work as usual. They will continue to work with whoever they originally worked with."

"If you have any opinions, you can raise them now."