Peter George Oliver Freund was born, raised and educated in the Romanian city of Timișoara.
Freund obtained his PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Vienna, with Walter Thirring as his thesis adviser.
Beyond his work in theoretical physics, Freund was the author of the book A Passion for Discovery, World Scientific, Singapore, New York, London 2007.
Over the years, in addition to scientific papers, Freund wrote short stories, and in 2001 he began publishing them.
In addition to short stories, Freund wrote two novellas, The Fine Underwear of Consciousness and Upside Down, as well as the novel Belonging.