Peter Hildebrandt received his PhD in chemistry from the UniversitĂ€t Göttingen in 1985. After a post-doc stay in Princeton, he worked in research institutes in Göttingen, MĂŒlheim, and Lisboa. Since 2003 he is Professor for Physical Chemistry and Biophysical Chemistry at the Technische UniversitĂ€t Berlin. His research is dedicated to vibrational spectroscopy of biological systems, focussing on Raman spectroscopic techniques applied to redox proteins and photoreceptors.