MICCAI 2022 Daily – Tuesday

20 DAILY MICCAI Tuesday Women in Science Manila Friends Not monkeys, but cows. Pretty much. There is a saying in our town that there are more cows in my village than people. So how did a German village girl end up in an academic and industry career? I was always interested in medicine, but I always liked the radiology part where people were actually operating software and looking at the images. I was always fascinated by images and also surgeries. So I decided to study medical engineering, which you cannot work within my hometown or home village. So you have to go visit abroad or go to the city. You're doing very well. What about the images? What do you like in images that make them so appealing to you? What I think is fascinating about them is that you can really see through if you speak about radiology, you can see through the body. So you can see things that a human cannot see if you look at the patients. So if you and I are talking today, it's thanks to Marie Curie. Yeah, definitely. You took a very big step, which is leaving academia for industry. Is that right? No, I'm right in the middle of industry and academia. I'm at the university. I have an official university postdoc position, but it's funded by GE Vingmed or the Norwegian Council of Research. If you had a little sister, would you recommend the same path? I would probably tell her that she should know both. She should first study foundation research, study mathematics or computer science, but then go into applied science. Because without applications, methods are just worth nothing. Methods, in the end, need applications. I know of a very famous Iranian professor of mathematics. She won a sort of Nobel Prize in mathematics, but she didn't do application things and everybody admires her just the same. I admire those people too. I totally agree that it's important. But in the end, if we want to come to translation, and we really want to help patients, then very much in