any pain. Just a bit of noise from the scanner. Is it only your group embarked in this project? Oh, no! This is huge! The method was invented toward the end of my PhD when I was doing neuroscience. Then I had this idea of translating it to tumors and cancer. It was a prototype, very computational. We made animal experiments first and had positive results. Then David Hawke said, why not? Let's try and do it in humans! It might become a spinoff of the university. Who knows? Yes, maybe. My goodness, possibly! We do collaborate with a lot of companies, like Siemens and Philips, to incorporate it in the scanner, because that will be the best, fastest route. I did not forget your professorship. How does it work, actually, for an Associate Professor who one day says, well, I will apply to professorship? There is guideline from UCL. For that grade, all the achievements that you have under your belt from research, from teaching, from your EDI contributions, institutional citizenship and all these things. I was a bit hesitant and was going to wait for a few more years, but I have wonderful colleagues who pushed me forward: they told me I was ready and I should try. There's a shortlisting from the department. And then once you get through that, you can apply for the whole thing. And then you need champions, other professors from other universities who know of you and your contribution to the field to vouch for you. Tell me, Laura, this sounds a little bit bureaucratic. Isn't it something stranger that comes to bother you from your research? Oh, there's so many things that come into the research. This is nothing. With this, at least, you get a fancy title that comes with power and opportunities. So this is something worth doing and I found it really good for my self-esteem as well. Doing this little exercise, looking back and putting together everything that I have done and presenting it in the best possible way, because sometimes you forget... And many of us suffer sometimes with imposter syndrome. Am I good enough? We compare ourselves with others. So when you have also that external validation, it's a little boost. It's quite a big boost, actually! But tell me, Laura, how can someone obviously successful like you, someone with your curriculum, still have imposter syndrome? How does it work? Women in Computer Vision 20 DAILY WACV Sunday
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