situation, we’re particularly dependent on the clinician’s skills and the skin characteristics of the patient. It’s important to have a robotic device that can do this with just one shot, without failures, by helping the clinician and the nurse to visualize our veins and be very precise during this operation. I would say the next thing I’d like to do is have more experiments towards this with animals and even with humans, trying to make this happen and bring it to the market. I have interviewed many Greek women in this series of Women in Computer Vision. That is not by chance – there are very many successful Greek women in science. Why do you think that is? Ah, this is very nice and a good thing to notice. I’m very happy about this actually and very proud. I don’t know! [laughs] I can’t say why this happened, but I think in Greece, we have a very high level of education and most probably research, and we’re kind of curious about research and progress. We have different interests. We’re trying to succeed in different fields. In engineering, there are many good researchers, especially women. Is there one Greek scientist from the past that you admire in particular? There are many Greek scientists I admire. First of all, my first professors, my supervisors in Crete in Heraklion, where I pursued my PhD and master’s, Prof. Panos Trahanias and Prof. Antonis Argyros. They inspired me and gave me the first mentoring and all the assets that made me what I am now. I’m particularly proud of being part of this group at that time and that I have the chance to work with them and continue my career up to now. Computer Vision News 20 Women in Computer Vision
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