Computer Vision News - October 2022

34 Women in Science I really believe in the projects I’m working on. I really think it will be something that can make a contribution, so I guess I have a lot of internal motivation. Also, I really like the imaging community and coming here for the conference and meeting with people. If you had to select one achievement from everything you’ve done up to now, what would it be? That’s a very good question. Finishing my PhD was a big achievement, definitely. You work very hard for three or four years and at the end you have something which you can share with people and your family. What did you do to celebrate? I did two things. I decided that climbing Kilimanjaro in Tanzania was a good way to overcome the challenge! [she laughs] You did? Yes! Wow! Then, with friends and family, we had a small party all together. What was most difficult, Kilimanjaro or making a PhD? Both! [we both laugh] Physically, Kilimanjaro, I guess intellectually, well… they are different! What is your message to the community? It’s been a hard few years with Covid and everything, and it’s really great to all be here again. I’m looking forward to chatting with everyone, getting to know each other again, and continuing to collaborate. I guess that’s a positive message! More than 100 inspiring interviews with successful Women in Science! Andrew King is the technical one, and Reza Razavi is the clinical one. Of all the incredible things you’ve done to get to where you are, what was the biggest difficulty you had to overcome? I think it was the step of trying to make what I was working on work in a clinical setting and all the challenges, from getting the data from the back systems to applying it to make something the clinicians wanted to use. That was the most challenging. What forces did you find in yourself to overcome this challenge? I guess it was the motivation. I really believed in the project. I thought it would be interesting. As I mentioned, I had a lot of collaborators who were very keen on helping and pushing – also, working very hard! What’s your secret?