Katharina Kolbeck has been working as a test expert at BMW since May 2021, focusing on brake particle emission. 

She studied chemical engineering at Technical University Munich, including a master thesis at BMW within the field of exhaust   measurement technology. She started a PhD at the Technical University Ilmenau under the supervision of Prof. Klaus Augsburg in 2017. The aim of her thesis is to gain a better understanding about the formation of brake particles in friction brakes by in-situ observations of the frictional contact. She is a  part of the brake particle emission project team at BMW and of the PMP brake particle task forces 2, 3 and 4.