Peter joined Queen’s University Belfast as a lecturer on an RCUK fellowship in 2008 and became a Senior Lecturer in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry in 2016. In the same year, he took on the role as the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering’s Director of Internationalisation and since 2018, he has been the School’s Director of Research. Peter was a co-founder of Seren Technologies, the Queen’s University spin-out now operating as Ionic Technologies.