Could you describe your career path to date? When I was very young, I had already decided to go into science & technology. I went to the Telecom Paris engineering school because that allowed me to combine my interest in working for a sector at the cutting edge of technology, namely telecommunications, and my passion for space, via a space telecom program that was offered at the time. After I graduated, I started my career in Japan in 1990 as a guest researcher at the satcom research lab run by NTT, the leading Japanese telecom operator. I was the only woman working in a Japanese lab with 300 engineers, and also a foreigner!