Bho Matthiesen was born in Wyk auf Föhr, Germany. He received the Diplom-Ingenieur (M.Sc.) degree in electrical engineering from Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree (with distinction) in electrical engineering from Technische Universität Dresden in 2019.

From 2008 to 2010, he was a Student Research Assistant at Technische Universtät Dresden. From 2010 to 2011, he was Research Assistant at Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications in Berlin, Germany. From 2012 to 2019, he was a Research Associate with the Chair of Communications Theory, Technische Universität Dresden. He is currently a research group leader and lecturer at the U Bremen Excellence Chair of Petar Popovski in the Department of Communications Engineering, University of Bremen, Germany. His research interests are in communication theory, wireless communications, and optimization theory.

Dr. Matthiesen is a Member of IEEE, IEEE ComSoc, IEEE SPS, EURASIP, and VDE/ITG. He is an Exemplary Reviewer 2020 and 2021 of the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, was an invited speaker at the 2nd 6G Wireless Summit 2020, and a tutorial presenter at IEEE VTC2020-Fall, IEEE ICC 2021 and IEEE ICASSP 2021. He served as a publication co-chair for the International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS) 2021 and for the International ITG 26th Workshop on Smart Antennas and 13th Conference on Systems, Communications, and Coding (WSA & SCC 2023). He is an associate editor for the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking and an editorial board member for Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio).