Currently Associate Professor Mass Spectrometry Histochemistry (MSHC) at the Faculty of Medicine (Dept. of Imaging & Pathology) of Leuven University (Belgium) from where he obtained an MSc in Zoology [1983] and a PhD in Comparative Neurobiology [1987]. Visiting professor at the School of Physiology of the University of Witwatersrand at Johannesburg (South Africa) [since Oct 2024].

With Peptides in Biology as a common theme in his >40 years of research, he is recognized worldwide as one of the pioneers in Peptidomics. Founder & CSO/CEO of ProteoFormiX (www.proteoformix.com) at JLABS@BE [J&J Innovation Center Belgium; 2017. 

Past (international) academic & industrial positions:

• Assistant professor [1983-1987] and associate professor in Histology and Biological Mass Spectrometry [Leuven University; 1988-1999].

• Postdoc at Laboratory of Toxicology & Biochemistry at Biology Dept. of University of Waterloo [Canada; 1987-1988].

• Industrial sabbat year at Innogenetics [Ghent Belgium; 1998-1999].

• Group leader Proteomics at Organon [Oss Netherlands; 2000-2004].

• Full professor Analytical Biotechnology and Innovative Peptide Biology at Delft University of Technology [Netherlands, 2005-2016].

• Co-Director of the Center of Excellence on BioMedical Mass Spectrometry of Lund University (Sweden; 2016].

• Honorary professor MSHC at M4i [Maastricht University Netherlands; since 2017].

 Peter co-organized a track "Spatial Mass Spectrometry" at MSACL-2024 in Monterey (CA, USA) covering mass spectrometry imaging applications in medicine.