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  ...