Pier Gerard "Peter" Bouwknegt (born 20 April 1961, Geldrop) is professor of theoretical physics and mathematics at the Australian National University (ANU), and deputy director of their Mathematical Sciences Institute.
After that, he became a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, CERN, and the University of Southern California.
He moved to Australia in 1995 and worked at the University of Adelaide as an ARC QEII Fellow and subsequently as an ARC Senior Research Fellow.
In 2005, he was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics at the Australian National University.
Main expertise is the structure of two-dimensional conformal field theory and their applications in diverse areas such as condensed matter physics, integrable models of statistical mechanics and string theory, as well as the mathematical structures underlying string theory and D-branes, using mathematical techniques such as K-theory and gerbes."