Being a researcher, a way of life

摘要

I had the pleasure to meet Prof. Maria Petrou when I was at the difficult time to start my PhD. Time when one is not certain about the future, not only in the research field but also in the professional career and personal life. Together with my supervisor Dr. Joan Marti from the University of Girona (Girona, Spain), I was lucky enough to establish a collaboration with Prof. Maria Petrou. At that time, she was working in the Center for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing (CVSSP) of the University of Surrey (Guildford, UK). After some initial emails, we did our first meeting in Andorra, where the Pattern Recognition for Remote Sensing Workshop organised by Maria was taking place [1 ]. That was the beginning of my PhD and my first contact with Maria, the most outstanding researcher I have had the pleasure of working with. Most importantly, she was a marvellous person who extremely loved her work, being a reference for many people like me that learnt a lot of things from her way of living research.