Peter Hawkes obtained his M.A. and Ph.D (and later, Sc.D.) from the University of Cambridge, where he subsequently held Fellowships of Peterhouse and of Churchill College. From 1959 – 1975, he worked in the electron microscope section of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, after which he joined the CNRS Laboratory of Electron Optics in Toulouse, of which he was Director in 1987. He was Founder-President of the European Microscopy Society and is a Fellow of the Microscopy and Optical Societies of America. He is a member of the editorial boards of several microscopy journals and serial editor of Advances in Electron Optics.

• 1, Surface plasmon enhanced photoemission and electron acceleration with ultrashort laser pulses,Dombi*2, Physics and the Pioneers of Microscopy,Ford*3, Image decomposition: theory, numerical schemes and performance evaluation, Gilles*4, The reverse fuzzy distance transform and its use when studying the shape of macromolecules from cryo-electron tomographic data, Svensson*5, Anchors of Morphological Operators and Algebraic Openings, Roogenbroeck*6, Temporal Filtering Technique using Time Lenses for Optical Transmission Systems, Yang,  Kumar, Wang