“这是一场意外惊喜。在此之前,我从没想过会在中国待这么久。”2000年初,26岁的英国牛津大学博士马克·巴特兰姆(Mark Bartlam)第一次来到中国。作为访问学者,马克受生物学家、中科院院士饶子和的邀请来到清华大学进行为期数月的学术访问,随后回到英国。同年下半年,经过深思熟虑后的马克接受了清华大学的长期邀请,作为外籍专家来到清华大学结构生物学实验室进行科学研究。这时的他,心中也只是思量着在中国待两到三年。 “It was a surprise before, and I never thought I’d be in China for so long.” "At the beginning of 2000, Mark Bartlam, a 26-year-old Oxford University Ph.D., came for the first time to China. As a visiting scholar, Mark came to Tsinghua University for a few months’ academic visit at the invitation of biologist and Chinese Academy of Sciences Rao Zihe and returned to England. In the second half of the same year, after careful consideration, Mark accepted the long-term invitation of Tsinghua University as a foreign expert who came to the Structural Biology Laboratory of Tsinghua University for scientific research. At this moment, he only thought about two or three years in China.