Professor Jan Peters teaches and conducts research both at the Department of Computer Science at Darmstadt University of Technology and at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH (DFKI). He is one of the world's leading researchers in the field of machine learning for autonomous, intelligent robots and has received several awards for his achievements. Among others, he was appointed IEEE Fellow, ELLIS Fellow and AIAA Fellow.

Petra currently works at the University of Bremen at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence, developing cognitive models of human decision-making in everyday tasks.