Dr. Peters received his dental degree from the University of Kiel in Germany in 1990 and completed his postgraduate endodontic training at Zurich University Dental School in Switzerland in 2001. In 2004, he earned his MS in Oral and Craniofacial Sciences from the University of California at San Francisco followed by a certificate in Endodontics from the same school in 2006.
After holding faculty positions in Kiel and Heidelberg, Germany, then in Zurich, Switzerland, as well as at the University of California, San Francisco, USA. Dr. Ove Peters was professor and the founding director of the postgraduate endodontic program at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in San Francisco as well as the Chair of the Department of Endodontics. In 2020 Dr. Peters joined the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, as Professor of Endodontics.
Dr. Peters has published more than 250 manuscripts related to endodontic technology and biology. He has authored two books and contributed to several leading textbooks; he also is an associate editor for the International Endodontic Journal, an academic editor for PLOS One and serves on the review panel of multiple other journals. Dr. Peters has received the Hans Genet Award of the European Society of Endodontology, the Louis I. Grossman Award of the American Association of Endodontists and most recently the Distinguished Scientist Award in Pulp Biology by the IADR. He is a Diplomate of the ABE, a member of OKU and a Fellow of the International and American Colleges of Dentistry.