Computer Vision News Computer Vision News 24 Women in Computer Vision our own. That’s why I only saw him three times. He was going to go sit on his island for a year, so I said, maybe then I can go to Denmark as a visiting student. So, I did. I went to a place called Aarhus, the second biggest city in Denmark, as a visiting student. After having been there for a year, I asked, ‘Can I stay?’ They allowed me to stay as a visiting student for the rest of my PhD. We have spoken about the past, but not much about the future. What island are you going to buy? I’m not buying any islands. I think this was not good for the PhD students! [Aasa laughs] Where are you going? All of this past shows, at least in terms of supervision, a lot of how I do not want to be myself as a supervisor. I want to be a very present supervisor. I want to build my group and have a happy group here in Denmark. I want to grow my group in that way. You know, being with the students, trying to understand them just like the clinicians, and trying to do good science together with them. I really love it when you can see the students grow and you can see them going from being the shy first-year student to being the confident senior PhD that is helping the new people coming in. That’s really nice. Do you have a message for the community? I’ve been Program Chair for MICCAI this year, and one of the things that I think we’re seeing in some of the cases we’re handling is that in parts of the community, there is a very high pressure. Pressure to publish, pressure to do well, to build a CV. I just want to remind the community that, at the end of the day, we shouldn’t be striving for more papers; we should be striving for better science. Especially as young scientists, if you don’t have that as your main goal, I think it will be very hard to maintain your motivation, and very hard to stay happy, but also really hard to do science that makes a better world. “Professor party after my inaugural lecture. It shows the nice social feel of the university section that I am part of.”
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