Michael Fausten took over the project management for automated driving in 2011 and has taken over the responsibility for the development of vehicle systems in the Chassis Systems Control division of Robert Bosch GmbH in Abtatt. In May 2017, he has been appointed head of development for fully automated and driverless automated urban driving at Bosch in cooperation with Daimler.

Michael Fausten was born 1969 in Cologne and is married. After graduating from high school, he studied physics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn and received his doctorate in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Berlin. He joined Robert Bosch GmbH in 1997 in Toluca, Mexico. Since 2001, Michael Fausten has held various positions in the development and pre-development of networked chassis systems, including Vehicle Dynamics Management and Combined Active and Passive Safety.

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