Peter joined NVIDIA as Research Scientist in 2026 April. His research focuses on inverse and forward rendering using generative image priors to solve fundamental challenges in material estimation and light transport. He finished his PhD at the Technical University of Munich, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Matthias Nießner. Peter began his career as a mechatronics engineer. His early works span a broad domain from neural control for robotics to active learning for computer vision.