Peter Oelschlaeger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, at Western University of Health Sciences (WesternU) in Pomona, CA, USA. He completed a teaching degree in Biology and Chemistry and an M.S. degree in Biology at the University of Hohenheim in Germany, followed by a Ph.D. degree in Biology at the University of Stuttgart. In 2002, he moved to the U.S. to conduct postdoctoral work at Caltech with Stephen L. Mayo, followed by postdoctoral work at the University of Southern California with Arieh Warshel. From 2007 to 2010, he was a faculty member in the Chemistry Department of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, after which he moved to WesternU. He has published 45 papers with 1270 citations and an h-index of 22 (Scopus, 4 December 2023). His research topics include mechanisms of antibiotic resistance, beta-lactamases, biochemistry, microbiology, bioinformatics, and evolution.