Peter Kacsuk was the leader of the first phase of the ARP project and chairing member of the Project Steering Board in 2021-2023. He also leads the cooperation with other national and international programmes and projects.

He is a researcher and research advisor, and Head of the Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems at SZTAKI. He defended his doctoral thesis at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) in 1984. He received his PhD degree in 1989. He habilitated at the University of Vienna in 1997 and received the degree of Doctor of Science in 2001. Péter has held professorships at the University of Miskolc, ELTE and the University of Westminster, London. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna, the Vienna University of Technology, the Johannes Kepler University in Linz and the University of Klagenfurt. His research spans almost the whole spectrum of programming environments for parallel and distributed computing systems: parallel logic programming systems, supercomputers and computing clusters, grid computing systems. He is currently researching programming environments for cloud systems.

Péter has participated in several European research and education projects as a leader at different levels. He was technical leader of two European Tempus projects and coordinator of four European FP7 research projects. He was a founding member and President of HRDA, the Hungarian section of the Research Data Alliance. Currently, he is the Technical Manager of the Hungarian Science Cloud Service.