Peter Hristov joined CERN in 2000 as a member of the ALICE collaboration. He worked on the software for offline data processing and as the ALICE programme librarian. He is currently leader of the Software Development section of the Experimental Physics department. Prior to joining CERN, he was a research physicist and participated successively in the EXCHARM experiment at the U-70 facility at Protvino, Russia, and in the NA48 experiment at the SPS facility at CERN.

Peter graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia and obtained a PhD in Particle Physics in 1999 from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia. He is CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) charter holder and is a member of the CFA Society, Switzerland.