Scientists and engineers tell Sky News the UK's position as a world leader in research is at risk due to a 'significant brain drain' as the industry's brightest talents relocate overseas in the wake of Brexit.
"I didn't want to take the insecurity of the condition of this research grant of staying the UK and the implications for all the people I hire."Treeck, originally from Germany, says the opportunities offered by working in UK science were"huge". But now the situation looks different."Saying you want to build an economy and you want to be an international superpower and then facing inwards... I feel that it's a step back, not a step forward," he said.
Professor Carsten Welsch is head of the physics department at the University of Liverpool and runs a programme developing new particle accelerators to replace the likes of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva.He recently had to surrender part of his Horizon-funded project to a collaborator in Italy as UK institutions can no longer hold leadership roles in the scheme.
"If you don't hold the leadership role in that multimillion pound or euro project, then how likely is it that you have the same leadership role in that much, much larger international project?" he said. In a worst-case-scenario, she said:"I think we will see a brain drain of our brightest talents going overseas. I think we will see more of our best technology-based companies finding that it's easier to get their scale-up funding overseas to list on stock markets in the US rather than in the UK.
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