People June 2021

Kathrin Rüschenschmidt is Engineer Powerwoman

Dr. Kathrin Rüschenschmidt was named Engineer Powerwoman this year as part of WomenPower during the Hannover Messe Digital Edi-tion. She accepted the award after laudatory speeches by Dorothea Bär, Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery and Federal Government Commissioner for Digitalization, and Angela Josephs, Vice Chair of the WomenPower Congress Advisory Board and Director Corporate Communications at Phoenix Contact.

Rüschenschmidt holds a doctorate in physics. During her studies at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, she already volunteered on the physics department council. As a women's representative, she inspired schoolgirls to take up physics as a STEM subject and advocated for female students and doctoral candidates.

Since 2019, she has been responsible for project portfolio management for new product developments and coordinates project managers at the power engineering manufacturer Emerson worldwide in the Machine Automation division. Before joining Emerson, Rüschenschmidt worked for Infinion Technologies as a design engineer and later as a project manager. She also founded the Women in STEM Chapter Laatzen.