Peter Apel graduated from the Technical University of Berlin in 2001. He received numerous awards for his work.

He has been with Sauerbruch Hutton since 2001. As a project manager, he has already been responsible for a large number of competitions and design projects. One focus of his work is on cultural buildings, which he manages from successful competition to realisation. He has been teaching at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau since 2018 and has been professor of design and building construction there since 2022. Peter became a partner in 2020.