He received a doctoral degree from University of Potsdam in 2008 for his work about distributed stateful service-oriented infrastructures. Peter’s current research interest is in dependability and programmability aspects of complex IT environments. He is currently focusing on novel uncertainty modeling concepts and proactive failure avoidance schemes. Peter had research collaborations with the SAP Innovation Center, Univa, FZ Jü̈lich, Audi, and IBM in the past. He contributed to more than 40 publications and co-authored 3 books in the area of dependable parallel and distributed systems.