Alessandra Scholl Sternberg graduated with a Physics Engineering degree from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) in 2016 having spent a year of her studies at the University of Sheffield. Since graduating she works in Systems Engineering for Siemens Mobility. She spent 4 years in the UK working on the development of the Crossrail Integration Facility, and changed roles in August 2020 to her current position in the Netherlands, where she works in ETCS related projects. During her time in the Crossrail Project her responsibility was to develop and maintain the Test Automation System of the facility to facilitate the early Systems Integration work of the project.