Peter de Peinder

Peter de Peinder studied chemistry, majoring in biochemistry, at Utrecht University and subsequently became a junior scientist in the Vibration Spectroscopy department at the same university. In 1999, he joined Philips and became a senior scientist in the Materials Analysis department at Philips Research. In 2006, he left Philips Research Eindhoven (NatLab) to focus entirely on his work for VibSpec.

His current research areas include the interpretation of vibration spectra, IR and Raman spectroscopy in general, nano-IR, pharmaceuticals, polymers, catalysis, process analysis (PAT), and multivariate data analysis. In 2009, he obtained his PhD in Chemistry on the characterization of crude oil through a combination of spectroscopy and chemometrics.

In 2025 he was awarded the prestigious Norman Sheppard Award by the UK Infrared and Raman Discussion Group (IRDG).

As a part-time researcher in the Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis research group of Utrecht University (since 2000) he focuses on in situ vibrational spectroscopy of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts.

He has been a board-member of the Dutch Infrared and Raman Discussion Group (IRDG) since 2002 and was a board-member of the Section Analytical Chemistry (SAC) of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV) from 2008 to 2014. In 2010, he became a member of the editorial board of the journal Vibrational Spectroscopy.