Paula overcame many odds to finally become the woman in IT she now is. In Paula's family, there were no role models, neither male nor female. At the onset of her journey, she wasn't confident that she had what it takes to go to university and study electrical engineering. She instead settled on doing a dual study in project engineering at Bosch. There she quickly realized that the electrical engineers were "her kind of people" with similar interests and hobbies.
She stayed on at Bosch after finishing her studies and gradually moved more and more into technical things. After 2 years she wanted to go on to complete her Masters in Engineering but nearly failed to gain admittance to the university due to the rigid university system in Germany that is not equipped to take in people who have not gone through the traditional system.
Luckily she then met Prof. Jochen Steil who enabled her to join the program and became her mentor. He was also played a big part in her journey to creating her own company Taxel. Taxel failed due to the difficulty in acquiring funding due to the circumstances in 2020 but the idea behind the company is still inspiring Paula is now a mother of 2, working in a job she enjoys, flexible in the way she schedules her time, and financially stable. She wants to encourage other young women to choose this path and follow in her footsteps.
