He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology and a Ph.D. degree from the Johannes Kepler University Linz. Since 2004, he co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed conference and journal publications and serves as program committee member and reviewer for several conferences and journals relevant to the fields of music, multimedia, and text IR. Since 2009, he organizes the International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research series. In 2010, Peter served as program chair of the 8th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval. In addition to music and Web information retrieval, his research interests include multimedia, user interfaces, recommender systems, and digital media arts.