[2] In 1994, Peters joined the lab of Marc W. Kirschner at Harvard Medical School in Boston as a postdoctoral fellow.
In 1996, Peters moved to Vienna to become Junior Group Leader at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), and was promoted to Senior Scientist in 2002.
Peters characterized the regulation and operating principle of a number of proteins that are responsible for the correct chromosome segregation during mitosis.
[3][4][5] Peters was the coordinator of the European Science Foundation network grant EuroDYNA (2005-2008) that is fostering interaction among various collaborative research projects.
[7][8] Between 2004 and 2009, Peters also coordinated the EU funded research project MitoCheck, aimed at the identification of genes that play a key role in the process of mitosis.