Kirsten Matheus

Dr Kirsten Matheus is engineer and economist. Since 2003, she worked in the automotive industry; since 2009 at BMW. At BMW she is responsible for the strategy for the in-vehicle networking technologies. This entails ensuring the availability of suitable in-vehicle networking technologies ahead of time. In this context she successfully introduced Ethernet as a networking technology into the automotive industry. She and her former colleague Thomas Königseder describe their experiences, background and technical concepts behind the use of Ethernet in the automotive industry in a book titled “Automotive Ethernet”. Her new book, co-authored by her colleague Michael Kaindl, “Automotive High Speed Communication Technologies, SerDes and Ethernet for Sensor and Display Applications”, will appear in Autumn 2022.