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>> When I was very
young, I saw a picture
of the Earth taken from space.
Then I think, wow, that's
really a fantastic field.
And also personally, I'm very
interested in mathematic models.
I like to work with people
from different fields.
Therefore, entering
Earth's observation,
where a lot of mathematics are
involved.
We are dealing with data
which are taken from space,
and also my team actually
is very interdisciplinary.
They are physicists,
mathematicians,
computer scientists,
urban geographic scientists,
we work together.
I mean, this is just
what I wanted.
We want to on a global scale
to get us really
models of the buildings.
We want to get the
changes with the time.
And we also want to
get the semantics,
which means the functions of
the buildings, and also try
to get a first ever
transparent estimation
of the population density.
If you think about developing
countries, in particular,
those living in informal settlements and slums,
so basically don't
have these authorities,
does not have the
basic information,
even if they want to, let's say,
scale the fundamental
infrastructures like healthcare,
clean water and education 
according to the actualities.
So we are going to
close this gap.
Getting this award, I think
I will definitely get more
connections in the field of
HPC, which, of course,
can be very much advantage
for my own research fields.
On the other hand, I rather
to see it also as kind
of a responsibility, because
this means I should also be a disseminator
who speaks for more women in HPC
and I'm very delighted
to do this.
