Peter F. Pelz received the Diplom-Ingenieur degree in mechanical engineering from Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, in 1993, and the Dr.-Ing. degree in mechanical engineering from Technische Universität Darmstadt, under Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joseph H. Spurk. After his Diplom-Ingenieur degree, he continued working with Technische Universität Darmstadt as a Research Assistant. From 1998 to 2003, he worked as the Team Leader of Fluid Mechanics and Rheology at Freudenberg F&D Service KG, Weinheim, followed by the position as the Manager of Advanced Development at Vibracoustic GmbH and Co KG, Hamburg, from 2003 to 2006. Since 2006, he has been a Full Professor at Technische Universität Darmstadt, where he is the Head of the Chair of Fluid Systems (FST). His research topics are sustainable systems design, urbanization and infrastructures, cavitation and generic flows, and designing with fluids. He has been a Spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 805 on uncertainty in mechanical engineering and is one of the initiators and the Deputy Spokesperson of the National Research Data Infrastructure for Engineering Sciences NFDI4Ing. During his research time, he co-founded the Industrial Science GmbH, Darmstadt, where he currently is a Key-Researcher.