Computer Vision News - June 2023

20 Women in Computer Vision do here things that I did not have the ability to do when I was in Greece because we did not have the resources, we did not have the robots, and we did not even have GPUs until the very end of my PhD. We took a lot of time to make a small cluster to be able to do deep learning. I am very grateful that I have this opportunity here, and I am surrounded by people that come from so many different nationalities. This is very interesting for me, and I think it makes me grow as a person. The other part that I am grateful for is, of course, my personal life here. I have friends already and my partner here, so it makes me feel well on a personal level. Now that there is no Covid, what I try to do is to take small trips to Greece whenever I can so that I can visit my family. Eventually, my mother visited us last October. She had not visited us all the time due to Covid. Now, given that we are very close to Frankfurt Airport, it gives us the opportunity to travel easily. Especially when the summertime starts there are direct flights from Frankfurt to Rhodes. I try to balance this, but I have to do it only when there is no teaching in the university. This is what I try to do, but to be honest, I become homesick, especially during summertime! You did not have the resources for your research in Greece. Can you give Greece some advice? The advice to Greece is to only a few days ago, so it is a very recent memory for me. Oh, nice. I was also in Greece a few days ago! [ she laughs ] I visited my parents. I was in Rhodes. I adore Rhodes. How can you find your place so far away from home? This was a difficult part because I livedmost of my life in Greece. I am from Rhodes, and most of my studies were in Athens. It was a bit difficult because the climate is different compared to the climate of Greece, and especially the climate of the island that I come from, so you understand that was a very difficult process. On top of that, there was Covid. I came to Darmstadt in November 2019, and in two or three months, there was Covid quarantine, so for two years, I was basically at home. What I find here, what really makes me feel complete, one part is the work. I can