However, during his last years at the university he started to develop software for data collection and data analysis for food research and technology centers. He worked for many years in the IT business as software designer afterward. In the past 12 years he became more interested in the "traditional" fields of psychology and psychiatry, including new approaches on how to deal with anxiety, panic and depression. Peter is also actively following developments in consciousness research, quantum physics and the current paradigm shifts that bring Western science closer to old Eastern philosophies and religions.