Peter completed his PhD in 2022 at the University of Western Australia under the supervision of Dr Duncan Wild where he studied the structure and energetics of weakly bound ion-molecule complexes that represent intermediates in important atmospheric reactions. After completion of his PhD, Peter took up a postdoctoral position at the University of Oxford with Prof. Stuart Mackenzie where he worked on the construction of new instrumentation to investigate the role molecular vibrations have in controlling chemical reactions for use in industrial catalysis. During this time, Peter was also awarded a Junior Research Fellowship by Magdalen College, Oxford. He later returned to Perth, taking up a Forrest Research Foundation Fellowship and beginning to create his own research group based out of Curtin University.

His current research focuses on liquid-air interfaces such as those in atmospheric aerosols, and how molecules’ physical properties are affected by the crossing of this interface. This work has implications for any kind of atmospheric emission, but particularly in areas where human activity boarders the natural world. He has broad interests in physical chemistry, spectroscopy and instrument design and is a self-described ‘tinkerer’.