Peter qualified as a DVM from the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College of Denmark in 2004. After one year of working for the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, he started in 2005 as a PhD student working on zoonotic enteric bacteria from dogs. He defended his thesis and was awarded the PhD degree in 2008. He was subsequently employed as Postdoc at the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen. During his postdoc, he continued working on the zoonotic risk of bacteria in pets, with a primary focus on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Peter also started as Head of a local microbiological diagnostic laboratory at the university, and in 2013, he was employed in his current position at the university as an Associate Professor of veterinary clinical microbiology. Peter has since continued working on AMR and diagnostics, primarily in companion animals. In addition, he has gained interest in a more solution-oriented approach towards AMR. For example, he was the editor of a national antibiotic use guideline for companion animal practice. This guideline has become internationally acknowledged and translated to more than 12 languages. Peter is also Chair of the EUCAST subcommittee VetCAST and of the COST Action European Network for Optimization of Veterinary Antimicrobial Treatment – a network comprising more than 300 persons from Europe and beyond. He is the author of 76 articles in international scientific journals with peer review, and he has contributed to three chapters of the upcoming 6th edition of the book Antimicrobial Therapy in Veterinary Medicine.