Dr. Peter Webley is a Research Professor of Remote Sensing as well as the Associate
Director of Research at the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration
(ACUASI), Geophysical Institute, UAF. As well as Deputy Director of the UAF technology
transfer office, Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization (OIPC), Peter
is a Program Manager at UAF’s Center for Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship
(Center-ICE) and leads the instruction of the NSF funded I-Corps site program as well
as managing the summer-based Students to Starts program.
Peter was the Vice-President of UAF’s first start-up, V-ADAPT, Inc., formed in 2013
and has successfully licensed intellectual property, been awarded small business innovation
research projects and a US patent as well as been inducted into the State of Alaska
Innovators Hall of Fame 2016 – 2017 class. He is a scientist, innovator, and entrepreneur.
Before coming to UAF, Peter was a postdoctoral researcher at Kings College London
and developed a remote sensing monitoring system for the volcanoes of Central America.
Peter has a BSc in Geophysics and an MSc in Atmospheric Sciences, both from the University
of East Anglia, UK and a PhD in Remote Sensing from the University of Reading, UK.
Peter works hard to support and advise faculty, staff, and students to develop their
ideas, protect their intellectual property, and commercialize their work as they develop
into our next generation of UAF entrepreneurs and solve tomorrow’s issues today.