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:
Honorary professor MSHC at M4i [Maastricht University, Netherlands; since 2017].
Co-Director of the Center of Excellence on BioMedical Mass Spectrometry of Lund University (Sweden, 2016).
Full professor, Analytical Biotechnology and Innovative Peptide Biology at Delft University of Technology [Netherlands, 2005-2016].
Group leader, Proteomics at Organon [Oss, Netherlands; 2000-2004].
Industrial sabbatical year at Innogenetics [Ghent, Belgium; 1998-1999].
Postdoc at Laboratory of Toxicology & Biochemistry at Biology Dept. of University of Waterloo [Canada; 1987-1988].
Assistant professor [1983-1987] and associate professor in Histology and Biological Mass Spectrometry [Leuven University; 1988-1999].
Peter co-organized a track "Spatial Mass Spectrometry" at MSACL-2024 in Monterey (CA, USA) and at MSACL-2025 in Montreal (QUE, Canada) covering mass spectrometry imaging applications in medicine.