Peter Rousseeuw is professor in statistics at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He obtained his Ph.D. on the topic of robust statistics in 1981, and has been a full professor in universities in the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Belgium. He has (co-)authored over 160 papers and three Wiley-Interscience books.
In 2003 ISI-Thompson included him in their list of Highly Cited Mathematicians. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association.