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©Barbara Evripidou/FirstAvenuePhotography.com

I am originally from Romania. I oved to Germany to do my masters degree then went to France to start my job at Airbus. After gaining some experience in France and Germany I moved to Bristol, the UK to join my husband. I used to play basketball at reginal level but now I play when I can in a non-competitive team. I am an active and keen STEM ambassador, you can see a picture of me teaching .

I work with people and computers to make sure our landing gear suppliers have what they need to deliver planes to the airlines. A key aspect is to check they meet the requirements set out by the authorities and when not work with them to reach compliance.

Landing gears are the wheels and the sticks that support the plane on the ground. It holds the aircraft with all its weight, it steers left and right and also slows down the plane using breaks like for cars. One interesting thing is that planes  can’t go backwards by themselves, they need a car to push them backwards. Here’s a picture of the largest commercial plane and all their landing gear. That’s a lot of wheels!!!

I wake up get ready, have some breakfast and then drop my daughter to school then I either go to the office or go back home , open my laptop and do some work. I sometimes have meetings with suppliers. In-between I review documents to check for correctness, I use tools to gather data and collate data to build a picture for each suppliers. At 3 I stop and go to pick up my daughter from school. Make/Bring some food for her to eat either on the way home or in the car. At 4:30 I connect again to my laptop and check emails and do some admin work until 5:30-6. My husband comes home around 6:30 and I may go to the gym for an hour from 7.