Kirstin Bettin studied information technology with an emphasis on RF technology at the Technical University Ilmenau in Germany.

During her studies, Ms. Bettin attended an 8 month internship at the chip design company SICAN GmbH in Hannover developing a HDL implementation of boundary scan basic elements.

After graduation in 1993, Ms. Bettin worked for several years at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated circuits in Erlangen in the field of chip design and developed application specific integrated circuits. Furthermore Ms. Bettin was responsible for the implementation of a database at the Institute and developed a customer specific database in Lotus Notes.

After two and a half years living in San Diego, CA, USA, Ms. Bettin joined ABK as a patent engineer. Her technical specialist fields are information technology, digital circuit design, database technologies, RF technology, and automotive engineering.

Linguistic proficiency: German, English, French, Russian