Computer Vision News 28 What is the best thing that you have learned or received from Siemens Healthineers? That’s a tricky one. I’m sure that you are very grateful to your company. Indeed, it’s tricky because there are so many things! [she laughs] I would say, the fact that I now cover many more topics than I used to before. The possibility to learn something every single day. Because it’s such a big company, you have a lot of touchpoints with many different people. Some of them might be working in MRI, and others might be working in ultrasound or CT, so I get to expand my knowledge by being with all these people. Something that I also like very much is the travelling, which I’ve been doing quite often in the past couple of years. That gives me the opportunity to see how things are done in different countries and what’s really happening in the field – even just comparing Italy to Germany or to the UK or the US, every country has its own trends or preferences. The nice thing about these global roles is that you get to see a little bit of everything, and you get to think of what there is in common and what there is that’s different, how you can adapt your talk so that you include everyone and make sure that what you say is relevant for everyone. That’s something invaluable. Is there anything else our readers should know about your work? Maybe not necessarily related to my job, but the advice I’d give students is to try things out during your PhD. That’s the time when, yes, you’re super busy because, of course, you need to work on your thesis and projects, but that’s also the chance you have to experience new things. I was working mainly on the technical side. I tried something more toward the communication aspect, and that helped me find the direction I wanted to go. There might be someone who’s working in communication and could try out what programming means, and they might find out that’s exactly what they want or exactly what they don’t want to do. Yeah, just explore things as much as possible! Women in Science
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