Peter Wasserscheid (born 23 October 1970 in Würzburg) is a German chemist and professor for chemical reaction engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Together with Matthias Beller he won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2006.
Wasserscheid studied chemistry at the RWTH Aachen from 1991 to 1995 before he did his doctorate in the work group of Professor Wilhelm Keim.
After postdoctoral research at BP in Great Britain he habilitated at the RWTH Aachen.
Since October 2003, Wasserscheid holds the chair of Chemical engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.