Matthew Petersen

Matthew Petersen is a Transportation Planner at the City of Boston since February 2023, specializing in rail transit within the Boston Transportation Department. Prior experience includes serving as Program Manager and Program Coordinator at TransitMatters, where responsibilities centered on the Mobility Hubs Campaign and policy research. Additional roles include instrumentation engineering at Folia Materials, test engineering at Infinite Cooling, and summer mechanical engineering at De-Ice, focusing on finite element modeling and design development. Earlier, Matthew worked as a Product Development Engineer at Festo USA, contributed as a Research Assistant at Brown University, and engaged in tribological research as a Research Intern at Argonne National Laboratory. Academic qualifications include a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Assyriology from Brown University.