Peter studied mine surveying at the RWTH Aachen. 

Since 1989 Peter is working at the biggest German coal mining company

 RAG Aktiengesellschaft.

Since 2010 he is head of the Geodata Management Department BG G2

Responsible e.g. for Photogrammetry, Surveying, GIS Projects

(e.g. concerning the environmental influence of the underground mining),

GIS Data and GIS Services

(e.g. RAG Bürgerinformationsdienst BID).

GIS Projects and GIS Services are carried out using the worlds leading GIS Software

Besides Peter was the DSK project manager for the EU R&D project MINEO (2000 - 2003)

 and for other internal R&D projects concerning 

"Monitoring the environmental impacts of mining" 

(2002 - 2006)

in cooperation with the 

Technical University of Clausthal (TUC)

DSK Research & Development Award 2004 

A teaching assigment was awarded to Peter by the RWTH Aachen (Department of Mine Surveying, Mining Subsidence Engineering and Geophysics in Mining) to give lectures on "Principles of Geoinformation Systems" (2007 - 2011 / B.Sc.) and "Principles of Geoinformation / Geodata Management" (since 2011 / M.Sc.)

Curriculum Vitae and selected publications 1999 - 2011 (PDF-documents):