 He has pursued post-doctoral activities in both industry and academia,
working for Softlab Group in Munich (now Cirquent)
and as Assistant Head of the Knowledge Bases Research Group of FORWISS (Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge-based Systems) / Technical University of Munich where he was deputy to Prof. Rudolf Bayer, Ph.D.Among Dr. Peter Baumann's entrepreneurial activities was founding of the spin-off company rasdaman GmbH for commercialization of the world's first multi-dimensional array database system.In August 2004 he was appointed as Professor of Computer Science at Jacobs University Bremen (formerly