Peter Derlet is a senior staff scientist within the Condensed Matter Theory group at the Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland. He specializes in the atomistic modeling of materials science related issues using both ab initio and semi-empirical methods. His fields of interest are:

• The mechanical properties of materials with complex defect structures.
• The dynamical properties of local and extended defects.
• The theoretical development and implementation of reliable semi-empirical models of inter-atomic interaction.
• The development of simulation tools to model the experimental measurement of structural disorder using neutrons, photons and electrons.
• Atomistic acceleration methods.

Organizer for a CECAM workshop entitled Interatomic potentials for transition metals and their compounds, Zürich, Switzerland, April 12-14, 2010.

MRS Fall meeting lead organiser for Symposium GG: Plasticity in confined volumes: simulations and experiments, Boston, USA, November 30-December 4, 2009.

Local organising commitee member for Electron Microscopy and multiscale modelling 2009, Zürich, Switzerland, October 27-30, 2009.