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醉心科研

王成波博士和他的科研团队

王成波博士（中间）和他的科研团队

许鹏飞丨右

“希望自己做的科研是老师都不曾涉及的领域。”许鹏飞笑着告诉我们。她在王老师的建议下进行了序列算法的学习，为之后的科研打下了基础。正是王成波老师一直用平等，开放式、讨论式的指导方式，培养了他团队博士生们独立自主的学习能力，潜心探索的科研精神。

“导师拥有的经验让我受益匪浅，他能够一眼找出我实验数据中的漏洞，帮我查漏补缺。王老师会把他的宝贵经验分享给我，包括实验开展的注意事项，结果得出后要严谨地验证等。” 说起导师对自己的指导，许鹏飞开始滔滔不绝起来。

张继昌

“王老师也一直为我们提供平台、设备，实验配件等。遇到难题时，会跟我们一起讨论，帮助我们开拓思路，让我们自己去解决问题。有新的有趣的课题也会和我们分享。2019年我们就凭借水果在磁共振下的成像研究成果入围了MRI领域的顶级期刊会议，并受邀去加拿大会场做报告和其他顶尖专家学者们面对面交流。我们作为王老师的最早的几批学生，还在老师指导下搭建起了宁波诺丁汉磁共振实验室平台，为日后的科研工作打下来基础。”张继昌也向我们分享了他的博士心得。

王成波博士(左1)指导学生

整个实验室里，团队成员之间也是一副和乐融融、积极向上的氛围。他们还介绍每周都会召开组会，由成员们轮流来做研究成果的汇报，再一起探讨。包括疫情期间，也一直坚持通过网络会议来进行积极地沟通。在英国期间，SPMIC中心SPM中心也会组织这样的交流研讨会，王老师团队的博士生王心培就做了半个小时的报告陈述，总结了他在英国学习期间的成果，收获等。王老师也会鼓励同学们多参加演讲比赛等，通过不断地练习提高自己的英语演讲水平，也有更多的机会锻炼自己公开表达的能力。

“不同于本硕时期，老师会布置作业，作业也会有标准答案，读博没有作业，小课题也没有标准答案，自己来寻找和论证答案的过程。”张继昌向我们分享了他的读博心得，他认为读博还是有很大的挑战。他在博一博二期间打了基础功，博三去了英国。他所接触到的课题实验是相对全新的知识，凭着自己一步步的探索，他最终突破了难题，还和自己的博士课题结合到了一起。不断地探索，创新，科研的魅力可能就在于此。

在英国诺丁汉的磁共振中心是以诺贝尔奖得主Sir Peter Mansefiled命名的，该中心也是行业中的翘楚，拥有的设备是世界最先进的，“很多学校都不一定能拥有这样的设备，而且中心超过一半的科研人员都是教授。”张继昌略带自豪地提起自己在英国诺丁汉Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Center (SPMIC)中心学习的体验。

同时，王老师的团队欢迎不同背景的学生从事MRI研究，张继昌的师弟南箴硕士专业是物理，也是张继昌认为符合课题组研究的需要，推荐给了王老师，这个队伍又更壮大了。

有着Sir Peter Mansefield这样的诺奖得主留下的基石，再加上中心的顶尖设备支持，强大的教授科研团队指导下，相信宁波诺丁汉大学的磁共振中心未来可期。

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Dr. Chengbo Wang’s expertise lies in biomedical engineering, specializing in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). He and his research team devoted themselves to research on the development of biomedical imaging techniques and hardware that would meet people’s needs for improving health and wellbeing.

Pengfei Xu, majoring in automation (bachelor and master), and Jichang Zhang, majoring in electronic communication (bachelor), are two doctoral students from Dr. Wang's research team. Under the guidance of Dr. Wang, they continue to make progress and are able to solve problems independently and complete teamwork together as well.

"I want to do research in a field that none of my supervisors have ever done. “Pengfei said. She also studied sequence algorithms under the suggestion of Dr. Wang, which laid a foundation for her future scientific research. Dr. Wang has been cultivating an independent learning ability and research spirit within the doctoral students in his team with equal and open guidance.

"I benefited a lot from the experience of my supervisor. He could identify the errors in my experimental data at a glance and help me check and fill in the blanks. My supervisor will share his valuable experience with me, including the notes for conducting the experiment and verifying the results rigorously." Says Pengfei.

"Dr. Wang has also been providing us with platforms, equipment, experimental accessories and other necessities. When we encounter difficulties, he will discuss and identify the problems with us, and then leave us to solve the problem by ourselves." Jichang also shared his feelings.

"In 2019, we were shortlisted for the conference of top journals in the field of MRI based on the fruitful research results under MRI, and we were invited to give a presentation in Canada to meet other top experts and scholars face to face. As the first batch of doctoral students of Dr. Wang, we also set up the UNNC Magnetic Resonance Laboratory platform under the guidance of our supervisor, laying a foundation for future scientific research work.” Jichang noted with enthusiasm.

In the lab, there is a happy and positive atmosphere among the team members. They also said that they will be having their group meetings weekly, in which members would take turns to report their research results and discuss them together. Even during the pandemic, they have been actively communicating through online conferences. Xinpei Wang, a doctoral student from Dr. Wang's research team, made a presentation for half an hour, summarizing his achievements and research results during his study in the UK. Dr. Wang also encourages students to take part in more speech contests, so as to improve their English speaking skills through constant practice and have more opportunities to exercise their ability of public expression.

"Differing from the master's period, there will be no homework for the doctoral study and no standard answers for small projects. I need to find and demonstrate the answers by myself." Jichang Zhang shared his research experience with us. He thought it was still a great challenge for him to get a PhD degree. He made basic achievements in the first and second year of his PhD journey, and went to the UK for further research in the third year. The research project he explored to was a brand new field. By his own efforts, he finally broke through all of the difficult problems and combined them with his doctoral project. This may be one of the great attraction of scientific research.

Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Center (SPMIC) in Nottingham is named after Nobel laureate Sir Peter Mansfield, and the center is one of the best scientific centers in the field, with some of the world's most advanced equipment.

“Not many universities have such equipment, and more than half of the scientific researchers in the center are professors," Jichang said proudly of his research experience.

At the same time, Dr. Wang's team welcomes students from different education backgrounds to engage in MRI research. Zhen Nan, Jichang's junior fellow researcher, majored in physics for his master's degree, and was recommended by Jichang Zhang. This research team has been further expanded.

With the foundation stone of a Nobel Prize winner like Sir Peter Mansfield, the center is supported by state-of-the-art facilities and guided by a strong team of professors and researchers. We believe that the MRI Center at UNNC will only become better and better.

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