do it again - or most of the times - but I really enjoyed the overall experience. Have you always thought like this during your PhD or there were ups and downs? Oh, there were a lot of ups and downs. Certainly! I think I had like my first major crisis after one and a half years or so when I thought I didn't make any progress. What am I doing here? What really helped me was actually to talk to my professor during that time. I really told him I think it's not what I'm supposed to do and then he was really taking out a lot of the pressure. So that was really good actually to be transparent and he was like you don't have to have a paper published at this point. I see you're on track. Don't worry. That was really good. He was super nice. It helped me a lot. Of course, also later I had ups and downs and also now still in my postdoc. They keep reappearing. I think it's somehow normal. You probably were not tempted enough to really quit. I said that from time to time. Still now maybe sometimes I will think maybe I should look for a job in industry. But then I get back to this point where I know that I love it so much, so I'll just stick to it. Is academia the place of your future or you don't know where you will be in 10 years from now? I don't know. I tried to keep an open mindset to have all possibilities open. but I would really love to stay somehow in this field - you can call it applied research of like ML in health. I think academia is a very cool place to be in general. And I don't think that research necessarily has to be useful by definition. I mean, it is research, right. It is also about learning new things. So I think it doesn't have to be useful in a specific way. I think that's the beautiful thing also about science. But I think it's also cool if all of this great research that is being done is also taken to some practical applications. In the end we need both. It's also cool that there are people that say maybe my stuff is useless but I just love every aspect about it. And then there are other people that say: OK, now I'm focusing on translational research. I think we need it all. Can you think at one wrong thing that you did and you would advise your younger self or our youngest readers not to do the same mistake? It's a good question. I just moved one and a half years to Switzerland Women in Computer Vision 14 DAILY WACV Monday
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