Peter Martin Visscher is a Dutch-born Australian geneticist who is professor and chair of Quantitative Genetics at the University of Queensland.

Visscher was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he was awarded a PhD in 1991 for research supervised by Bill Hill.

[2] Visscher is known for his research aimed at investigating the genetic bases of complex human traits.

Visscher applied statistical analysis methods to quantify and dissect the contribution of DNA polymorphisms to variation.

[7][8] Also in 2018, he received a Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council.