Lois Stahler

As a Process Engineer I am constantly solving problems by developing solutions, I find it really motivating to make things better. I am quite in tune to people around me and tend to know how other people are feeling about things, this makes working in a team and coordinating people much easier. I find organising things really fun, inside and outside of work. I think the personality types match me perfectly!

I'm the engineering on a team of scientists and specialists focussed on developing a new medicine for patients across the world. As a team we tackle different challenges that come up during development and ensure we make the perfect medicine. I love how I get to work in a team and problem solve! 

I’m one of the few who’ve known for a long time what job I wanted. I loved problem-solving and maths at school, and I knew I wanted to work in healthcare to help people. My mum’s friend bought me a magazine about women in engineering, and I realised there were way more options than I thought! After looking into different paths, I found that chemical engineering was the right fit. I chose the A-levels to match, and then the University of Sheffield, which has a specialist focus in pharmaceutical engineering, to guide me toward the job I have now.

Something really great about my life is that my team at work is full of women, all around my age, so we have lots of fun and I always feel supported by them - it's great to see us fight the normality! Outside of work I like to be busy, I enjoy cooking, playing squash and having fun with friends and family.

My days are split up between analysing data on the computer, doing experiments in the lab to solve problems I may see and taking calls with manufacturing sites across the world! 

A Levels: Maths, Further Maths, Physics Chemical Engineering (MEng) with a Year in Industry at The University of Sheffield.