Özlem Erdener Sönmez is an aeronautical engineer graduated from Middle East Technical University (METU) in 1999, with an Ms. degree at METU Aeronautical Engineering Department in 2001. She has been working for Turkish Aerospace since 1999, mainly focused on indigenous aircraft design projects. She has worked as structural design engineer and senior systems engineer responsible for the technical project management in all indigenous fixed wing aircraft design projects. She has been working in Engineering Integration Team since 2019 with main focus on integrating Model Based Systems Engineering and digital continuity to the ongoing design projects.