Computer Vision News - January 2022

48 Exclusive Interview by companies like Siemens, who invest a lot in research, and there are a significant number of small- and medium-sized companies working in the space. These companies want to hire researchers with PhDs and there are many people interested in joining the field. In the UK, by comparison, there is a lot of investment in the research, but there is not much industry in the space. Would you say this is a great time to be a researcher? I cannot think of a better time! Particularly in this domain. I am inundated with so many requests from clinicians to collaborate RSIP Vision organizes webinars in medical imaging. Out of the latest four speakers, three are German – and incidentally, all four are women! Why are German scientists at the forefront of this research? That is a good question! I had studied in Germany, but had never worked here before, but one of the things I have noticed is in the German system there is less emphasis on a small number of excellent universities. It is a federal system, so it is much more diverse. It is not like Oxford or Cambridge or Imperial. You will find good scientists at universities which are not particularly famous. There is a lot of excellence around and there is a lot of funding available. The imaging technology is developed