Christine Fernandez-Maloigne is Vice-Rector of the University of Poitiers in charge of International Relations since June 1, 2016. She is a professor in image processing and her research activities focus on color and multi-variate imaging and more recently on deep learning for medical image analysis. Since the beginning of 2019, she is co-founding director of a medical imaging laboratory, I3M, shared by the CNRS, the SIEMENS company, the University and the Universitary Hospital of Poitiers. At the national level, Christine Fernandez is a member of the French National University Council (CNU) since January 2016. She is an expert for many National and European agencies. At the international level, she is the French representative of Division 8 CIE (Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage, Image Technology Division) since 2006 and secretary of this division since May 2015. She received the Augustin Fresnel prize for her work and she is an officer of the Palmes Académiques.